The steps did not include "How to print" - Mark supplied the answer as follows - "When everything is set, click on New Doc. and you'll get an envelope looking document and you can print away." If you make it "click on New Doc., then on Print" it makes sense to me and works. Neither the URL or other posts went that far, mainly focused on entering data.
John ============================ I posted - -------- Hey, that worked! Thank you!! John Thursday, October 6, 2005, 1:30:13 PM, you wrote: It took me a while, but I finally found out how to do envelopes in OOo. Note, I'm using OOo 1.1.3, but I believe the method is the same for all versions. Go to Insert->Envelopes on the OOo menu. This opens a panel with 3 tabs. The first tab is Envelope. In this tab you put the addressee info and the sender info into separate areas. If you're using a database there's a drop down menu to select the database, one for the table, and another for the database field. I haven't used this yet. The 2nd tab is Format. My suggestion is to only select the type of envelope in the bottom area, which should fill in the width and height of the envelope. It will also show you where the data fields are going on the envelope. The 3rd and last tab is Printer. The top half of this panel will allow you to tell it where the printer is accepting the envelope, and the orientation. The bottom half of the panel will tell you what printer is selected and allow you to change the printer and the printer properties. You may need to experiment a little with this tab to get the correct way to place the envelope in your printer. When everything is set, click on New Doc. and you'll get an envelope looking document and you can print away. Hope this helps. Mark Thursday, October 6, 2005, 4:00:40 PM, you wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:53 -0700, John Gile wrote: > Thanks, Tina, I had completed all of that, but then could not find a way of > printing what I had done. Instead of addressing an envelope, it printed HTML > code vertically on the envelope. I have given up. > > John > I am puzzled by this. What step(s) in http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/word_processing/048.html have failed you? > > Thursday, October 6, 2005, 8:43:30 AM, you wrote: > > Hi John, > > take a look at "Insert I Envelope I Envelope tab" > > Here is what I found in OOo Help Writer for printing envelopes: > > > Envelope > > Enter the delivery and return addresses for the envelope. You can also > insert address fields from a database, for example from the Addresses > database. > > To access this command... > > Choose *Insert - Envelope - Envelope* tab > > > Addressee > > Enter the delivery address. You can also click in this box, and select a > database, a table, and field, and then click the arrow button to insert > the field in the address. If you want, you can apply formatting, such as > bold and underline, to the address text. > > > Sender > > Includes a return address on the envelope. Select the *Sender *check > box, and then enter the return address. OpenOffice.org automatically > inserts your user data in the *Sender *box, but you can also enter the > data that you want. > > > Database > > Select the database containing the address data that you want to insert. > > > Table > > Select the database table containing the address data that you want to > insert. > > > Database field > > Select the database field containing the address data that you want to > insert, and then click the left arrow button. The data is added to the > address box containing the cursor. > > > Preview Field > > Displays a preview of the current selection. > > > Tina > > > > > John Gile wrote: > > > > Where can I find, in the Help files, instructions for printing an envelope? > > > > I have spent a lot of time searching, but can find nothing. I find > > instructions > > for orienting the printing function, selecting the printer feed, etc. The > > only > > thing I can find is to Insert and envelope into a message. All I want to > > do is > > address envelopes, after I have printed a letter. > > > > John > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
