On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:32:16 -0500, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > CarlP wrote: > >> Jonathon Coombes wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 10:41 -0500, CarlP wrote: >>> >>>> WinXP Home, OO 2, Athlon 1.7GHz >>>> >>>> Folks, I've yet to get any help on this, and it'll make or break my >>>> ability to use OO for our organization. BTW, I'm a staff of one >>>> part-timer, and I've burned a lot of time on this already. >>>> >>>> My problem is with hiding or collapsing certain address lines when >>>> there is no data in that field. I've read a ton about how to do this >>>> (using the Hidden Paragraph function with a "not" or "!" or "NEQ" >>>> condition) but the "hidden" line remains hidden whether or not there >>>> is data in the field on that line. So it seems like hiding works, but >>>> the condition does not. There's no other info on that line (e.g. no >>>> other fields, no other text, no spaces, etc.). >>>> >>>> For further troubleshooting beyond trying different syntax for the >>>> condition, I've tried creating a new merge document from scratch using >>>> the same data source. That too has the same problem. >>>> >>>> What could I possibly be doing wrong, and how can I resolve this? I >>>> really want to use OO. >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi Carl, >>> >>> According to my knowledgebase, the hidden paragraph technique is known >>> NOT to work with version 2.0 at this stage. >>> >>> Regards >>> Jonathon >> >> >> >> Interesting, and thanks. This is the first reference I've seen about >> this issue. It's a bit disappointing, and I'd hope the user guides, >> tech articles, and related materials I waded through would explain the >> correct way to do this, not the way that doesn't work. Also, this seems >> to me to be an important basic function of an office suite, so basic >> it's hard to believe they'd release 2.0 without it. >> >> Carl > > I think that the point is that this is a BUG and it should not have been > released without it. > Can you download and try one of the version 2.01 releease candidates and > see if it is fixed there?
According to issues: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=56195 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=36696 it's targeted for 2.0.2 I only hope the useability issues have been addressed as well. For a Word user who only has to select to include or not include blank lines, the method used in openoffice is a real turn-off. -- John [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
