Jonathon Coombes wrote:
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 19:10 +0000, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
Russ Fineman wrote:
I created a new label (Avery 8160) and selected all 81 records in my data
base. After sync. I only get the first page (30 labels). Do I need to select
each sheet of labels separately, is this a bug, or am I doing something
wrong.
I followed the step in the help section except for the CTRL+F2 to get to the
database tab, That miniaturizes my window. By selecting fields/more/database
I get to the tabs. After selecting next record as stated my first page is
there but the others do not show, Page preview only has one page.
Any help or pointing me to a information source would help.
This is a perennial question and yes, it is a bug, or at least a
careless oversight in the code. I solved it, or avoided it more
truthfully, by creating my own templates to suit my label requirements.
Essentially you need a template with at least enough pages to cope with
all your records.
The HOWTO I submitted to the documentation project may help you.
http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/J8163_Template_HOW-TO.zip
Hi,
To my understanding, this is not a bug at all. The way the labels
work is to only show a single sheet, no matter how many records
you have selected. This is because all sheets of labels will be
produced identically except the field data. There is no point in
seeing 10 pages of field names all the same. It is only the data
that will be changed.
Either that, or I am missing your actual problem here?
Regards
Jonathon
You're right, Jonathon. However, there are a significant number of
users who complain about this behaviour. It seems they want a
mail-merge (which is really what we're discussing) to generate an
editable document for every record in the selection set. This does not
make sense, to me, as it is not efficient, and is totally un-necessary.
If you wanted to edit the documents, that _would_ make sense, but most
users will never edit the resulting documents, especially if they are
labels! All one needs is the template and the data that produced the
merge and you can always re-generate one or more records if something
happens to them, like a paper jam or something like that.
But, I'm probably preaching to the choir, as the saying goes.
Matt
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