D wrote:
On 1/24/2010 5:10 PM, jomali wrote:
I suspect that you expect to see all of the letters to be sent on your
screen. However, have you tried printing your mail merge document? The
merge, AFAIK, only happens upon printing.
Only on print? That's seems rather strange to me.
For all who asked, here's my exact steps:
1) Open "Master" file (to be merged in to)
2) use Mail Merge Wizard (tools->mail merge wizard)
3) Use current Document
4) (next screen) Type is letter
5) (wizard steps 3 & 4) - No headers /greetings (already in master file)
6) Press Next - skips to Wizard step 6 - Shows (for test database) two
records that can be merged (which is correct)
7) Press Next - Wizard Step 7 - says creating documents 1 of 2, then
offers to let me edit individual document (which I don't need to do)
8) asks if I want to save starting document (don't need to - no changes
to master), or merged documents. But it won't save multiple pages. I hit
save OR PRINT, and it gives me one page only. For two records I should
get two pages. However that doesn't seem to happen.
Hope this answers some Questions. BTW, using OOo version 3.1.1
(OOO310m19 - build 9420) from PortableApps.com
But you have to do all this only once for both, the master document and
the glue file (a "Base document" created on the fly).
The general concept is always the same, but hidden by the wizard: Some
kind of data source (address list) is read by a Base configuration to
substitute so called database fields with the actual contents of the
address list.
[table in database/spreadsheet/csv/mail client]=>[Base.odb]=>[Database
Fields]
The Base.odb stores only the information about how to read a certain
source of data.
Quite often another way of describing things helps.
3 frequently linked tutorials:
http://blog.worldlabel.com/mail-merge-in-openofficeorg-everything-you-need-to-know
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/labels/
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/mail_merge_openoffice_org
An alternative way to create a serial letter without wizard:
1- Connect a Base file to the source of data
(file>new>database...connect to existing database, type:whatever,...).
2- Hit F4 to call the data source browser ("beamer"), browse your
registered database >> your source >> your address list.
3- When you see the contents of the address list in the beamer's right
pane, drag the column headers you need into your Writer document and
arrange them manually in your letter or envelope. You can store the
result as template which includes all the connection details for similar
letters to come.
4- Hit Ctrl+P and follow the instructions which offer some fine tuning
regarding the source list (filter or select addresses) as well as the
target (generate letters as documents or send to printer directly).
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