Vaughn L. Reid III wrote:
The issue of blank fields in mail merges has been raised several times
in issuezilla since version 1.0.3, but it keeps getting reclassified as
an enhancement. I have to disagree that this is an enhancement. The
functionality of a properly working and usable mail merge is an
essential component of an office suite. I know that funds are tight
and developers are overworked, but this has got to be seen to.
Luckily for you Mike, you can program in perl and get a properly
formatted address list that way. Your example does show, however, some
of the extraordinary steps that someone sometimes has to take to get a
working mail merge with OpenOffice.
At the very least, the help screens should describe in detail how to set
up the suppression of blank fields. Back when I was first learning to
suppress blank fields in OpenOffice mail merges, I found that the help
left out a whole lot of the steps and layers of nuance necessary to get
the mail merge to work properly.
There was a response to the matter of how to handle blank fields posted
in the last couple of days. Perhaps you could read the reference
(http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/writer2_EN.pdf)
and explain which part of it doesn't work for you. That would be a much
more useful input to IZ and the list.
Doug
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