[users] Re: Printing labels from OpenOffice

[Ken Walker]

Russ Fineman wrote:
When I go to print I get a sheet with all the fields not the names and
addresses. The mail merge function is greyed out but I asssume I don't
use
it for  labels.
I'm going to guess here.  Do you have the DataSource Explorer visible
(F4)? When it's visible, navigate to the datasource for your labels,
then select a few records, and click the Data to Fields icon on the
DataSources toolbar (near the right side).  If your fields in the labels
are defined correctly, they should fill with the data you selected.
This is how I test my labels to see if they are getting data correctly,
without printing.
[snip]
Thanks Matt the Field names were on. Works now.
Hmm, well I have followed through this thread and it has helped but I 
still don't have this working.

I want to print a short list of members of a group with addresses and so 
 on.  It will be in 2 columns.

Amongst the problems I am having is that I don't know how it can get the 
results to print in columns like a phone book rather than in rows.  I 
want the final document to be in alphabetical order reading down the 
first column, then the second column.  Insteadd, when I am able to get 
it working it looks like the result will be in rows, with the second 
entry at the top of column 2 rather than it being the second item in 
column one.

I agree that this is more difficult than it ought to be and like others 
I am looking forward to OOo 2.0.

Ken
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