On Friday 05 August 2005 19:54, Freddy Van Ingelgom wrote: > I am trying to replace WordPerfect by OOo in our office. One difficulty > I found no replacement for is merging documents as we do with WP: We > have a lot of standard contracts where only a number of "fields" have to > be adapted to the real world. What I mean is: unther WP we have a sort > of "data base", in fact a document containing a number of fields > delimited by a special delimiter, which we use in the "master document" > where they are inserted at certain places bij placing a code whith a > sort of "field number". > The "data base" for clarity, is not a database in de the real sence of > that word, but an document containing text of "a certain" length. Every > field can contain text of a few words in length or can be several pages > long. > What we are dooing with WP is simply taking the "master document" and > the "secondary document" and merge the two together so that every field > is filled up with the correcponding text from the "secondary file". > Is there a function in OOo that can do this, or should I (finaly) learn > how to code Macro's? > Your help is, of coarse, greatly appreciated!
Hi Freddy, This sounds like you are doing something very similar to a mail merge. Have a look at http://documentation.openoffice.org for docs on this. You could simply have your data saved in a spreadsheet and use that as the datasource when doing your "merge". -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
