Well, before I actually created them, I modified the first record and
then clicked on the button to synchronize and then the change was
applied to all of the labels.
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I thought I finally had it all figured out, how save mail merge files
(for example, mailing label files) so they can be viewed and edited.
What I have found is that the process that I described a few days ago
does in fact work well as far as giving you a file that can be viewed.
Editing it, however, doesn't work real well, depending on what the
specific edits are.
The first thing I attempted to do was globally change the font style.
I attempted to select text by clicking and dragging, but found that I
could only select one record that way. So I used Ctrl+A to select all.
After hitting it twice (the first time it selected the record I was
in, the second time it selected all of the records), things seemed to
be working, in that everything was highlighted. Then I tried making a
change to the font. It did not get changed in any of the records, even
though all were highlighted.
Then I decided the labels would look better if I applied a slight
indent to all of the text, to move it a little bit away from the very
edge of the label. I tried Format > Paragraph and changed the indent
before text to 0.05". This totally botched up everything (no longer
had the right number of records per row; instead of three records per
row, there were two records in the first row, one record in the second
row, and so on.)
Each individual record can be edited (font changed, indent changed),
it's just that they have to be done one at a time.
There also didn't seem to be any way of affecting the font or any
other formatting during the label creation process. (Using File > New
> Labels)
The only way I can determine to change the font of labels, short of
editing them one at a time (not too practical), is to go to Tools >
Options > OOo Writer > Basic Fonts.
Is there anything I'm missing as far as how to obtain a truly editable
file of mailing labels? Or some other way to apply formatting when
creating mailing labels?
Dick, Webster, NY
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