On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 19:53 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Peter Hillier-Brook's detective work uncovered the reason (or at > least one reason) why some people are able to get the "hidden > section" technique of suppressing blank lines in mail-merged > labels and other documents to work, and others can't. Here is the > notice I have just added to the "Using Mail Merge" chapter in the > Writer Guide: > > ------- > Note – Very Important! > > Be sure your field names (or column headings in a spreadsheet) do > not contain spaces or the technique described here does not work. > > Normally you would enclose a field name in quotation marks if the > name contains a space. However, a quoted string is not acceptable > in the Condition box for a hidden section (see Figure 40 and > Figure 42) and an un-quoted string stops on the first space in > the field name, effectively making the condition always True and > causing the section to be hidden even if the field has data in it. > ------- > > I have uploaded the revised PDF file to the Docs website, but I > have not regenerated the full Writer Guide to contain the revised > chapter. >
Thanks Peter and Jean. I have opened http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=61605 to see if we can get this corrected. -- 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]
