Brian Barker wrote:
At 17:30 04/01/2009 -0800, Allan Abrahamse wrote:
How do I use openoffice writer to create a "directory" ...
I don't know that you can use Mail Merge in this way - at least, not
directly. Here is a slightly messy workaround, ...
I have also just used copy/paste to replicate enough database fields to
handle all the records, then used 'Data to Fields' to fill them. As long
as your 'directory' isn't the Manhattan phone book or the Sears catalog,
it's manageable.
I usually make more fields than I have records, then manually delete the
empty ones after merging the data, but you could use conditions to hide
the empty ones.
This does get fiddly when you have headers or other breaks at specific
places in the data, e.g. alphabetic sections. They have to be positioned
by hand--well at least I haven't thought of a better way to handle it.
Even so, it's a few minutes of copy/paste.
<Joe
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