On 11 Aug 2005 at 22:05, Doug Thompson wrote: <big snip of problem details>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but could use more help please! Thanks. > > > > Generating a document (file) per database record is exactly the way mail > merge is supposed to work. The objective is to create multiple tailored > copies of a document, each copy going to a different addressee. > However, using the Mail Merge Wizard, you are presented with three > options for output, one of which is to save everything to one file. Not in 1.1.4 under XP. There's an option to make everything one print job, but that gets greyed out (and the setting ignored) when sending output to file. I agree you may sometimes want one doc per recipient - although handling possibly hundreds of separate files I find a daunting prospect - rather the sort of thing I'm thinking of is my problem of generating a printed address book (surely I can't be alone in this sort of usage?) and also making files for printing labels, where one entry per sheet isn't the right thing. ... > Lastly, I don't recall if you mentioned it earlier, but I gather from > the file extensions that you're using OOo 1.1.x. You might want to take > a look at one of the recent betas. I think you'll find much improvement > in how and how well mail merge works. 1.1.4; I decided to wait for the official 2.0 release rather than try a beta version; I'm not sure enough about having two differing versions co-existing. Meanwhile, I've added some comments to the "hidden paragraph" request in bugzilla to those already there (which seem to be pre-V2). > I have been trying to send this reply all day. It looks like they > finally got the mail server fixed. Thanks for the perseverance and for your comments! -- 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]
