Barbara Duprey wrote:
S Perry wrote:
This is also called in MS Word a "catalog." ...
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OOo's mail merge has this kind of capability ... once you create a
table with the fields inserted from the database, and with the final
cell of the row ending with the "next record" field, it should fill in
just fine. ...
Nope. That's exactly what's missing. There's no way, in Writer, to say
"replicate everything from here... to here, enough times to consume all
the records in the current data source."
The mail merge operation does that implicitly, by replicating the entire
page (document?), but that usually isn't helpful for making a catalog-
or directory-type document.
Here's the relevant issue:
Merge to catalog/list/address book not possible
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=25804
Sun's Report Builder extension has the capability to replicate a set of
fields as needed to consume all the data, but the only output I've ever
seen from it is a (text) table row. I.e., the result is a big Writer
table with each row corresponding to one database record.
That seems like a significant limitation to me, but honestly I can't
think of any specific layout that couldn't be done as a table row.
And I've never worked with the Report Builder beyond trying some of the
examples, so I may be missing something important.
<Joe
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