Com, Thanks for the response. Just a couple of more or less random thoughts from me -- >From my experience and from doing quite a bit of reading what others have written on this topic, there are numerous ways to create labels. Some work and some don't! But there are more than one way to successfully print labels. I think the objective of this chapter (I say "I think" because while I contributed to it, and I have my own idea of the objective, I certainly wasn't the only author, so I don't want to speak for the others) was to give one (or maybe two) methods that work and are fairly easy to follow. So while the "Data to fields" approach can work, and is a legitimate approach, I'm not sure it is the easiest for most people. For you, it probably is; but I had some struggles with it myself, and then found other approaches that to me seemed to make more sense and worked OK. I'm not sure I totally follow the statement "What most people mis (and reading her post, I gues its the same with Patty) is the step that once the label-document is ready, they need to select data/rows and give a command to have it placed in the labels." Can you (or Patty?) elaborate on this? As far as the point about having a simple set of steps instead of a more wordy explanation with screen shots of each step -- I think this is an issue of different people absorbing information in different ways. From my (admittedly limited) experience working with people who either aren't terribly computer literate, or who have limited experience with a particular application, it's helpful to spell things out in a fairly detailed manner, and that pictures (screen shots) really DO help. I know when I'm learning a new application, I find it helpful to have a lot of screen shots. But other people, probably more experienced users, only need a simple set of instructions and can find the extra words and screen shots distracting. So one size won't fit all. Dick Detwiler In a message dated 1/12/2006 8:13:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello Dick, May I take *this* opportunity to give som feedback on the document ;-) (Thanks for contacting me before - sorry I didn't answer earlier). I see that with letters, labels and envelopes the advice is to prepare the document, save it, type Ctrl-P and choose Yes. Thus we get the nice dialog we know from OOo 1.x. Why not let the people save the document, select their records in de datasource window, choose the icon 'Data to fields', type Ctrl-P and choose No? It makes more use of one data window. That said, I find the instructions very good. What most people mis (and reading her post, I gues its the same with Patty) is the step that once the label-document is ready, they need to select data/rows and give a command to have it placed in the labels. Maybe some more emphasize on that aspect, could help. A totaly different suggestion: apart from the verbose explanation with screen shots of every window, I do like to give explanation in just the main steps. Just as I did in my first post to Patty (11-1-2006 22:22). Maybe for each merge-document such a short list could be included? Pls let me know If you want some more information. Looking forward to your idea's. Kind regards, Cor
