On 7 Aug 2005 at 6:32, Vaughn L. Reid III wrote: > One of the crucial usability features that OpenOffice lacks is the > ability to automatically suppress blank lines caused by empty fields in > a mail merge.
While that would be useful, it would seem better to fix a more general problem if it's going to be tackled at all; namely, along the lines of "if field X is(is not) blank, insert string Y" (blank-line-suppression is clearly a special case). This would mean that, for example, commas could be inserted between fields in a list if necessary and not appear if they weren't needed. OTOH this could easily turn into a full-blown macro processor. I'm almost sure I raised this with the list a year or so back, without much interest. I still resort to exporting my family's address book as a csv file and processing with a perl script to make a readable physical address book that has the fields I want, and is reasonably laid out (via rtf and then re-import into OOo - !!!): fortunately I'm not usually in the mail merge business (except maybe at Christmas!) -- various incoming sites blocked because of spam; see http://www.scottsonline.org.uk for a list and openpgp crypto key (key fingerprint 2ACC 9F21 5103 F68C 7C32 9EA8 C949 81E1 31C9 1364) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
