Hi all,
Richard Detwiler wrote:
Daryl Sawyer wrote:
I have a problem. I have a document that is supposed to get data from
a database. It used to work fine. Every time I tried to print, it
asked, "Do you want to print a form letter?" And, of course, I said
yes, and lo and behold, my fields were filled with data from my database.
The problem is that there was a little checkbox that said something
along the lines of "Always ask this" or "never ask this." I can't
remember which it said, but I figured, hey, I'm going to want to print
a form letter every time, so why not expedite the process?
So now it doesn't ask me. It just prints whatever's on the page, and
does not fill it with the appropriate data. In the first case, it was
whatever I printed last time. I've tried the alleviate the problem by
creating a new labels document, and now it just prints the field NAME,
rather than the data.
How do I fix this?
Running Oo.o 2.02 under Windows XP.
This isn't particularly helpful, but as a warning to others, I had heard
that you should "never, ever" select the box that says "Don't ask me
this again" or words to that effect, because what Daryl describes is
exactly what happens. The box never appears again and there seems to be
no known way of getting it back. At least no commonly known way.
Why a checkbox exists that has this effect, I'm not sure. Either this is
a bug or a very odd feature.
I think something in the UI is missing.
The solution for the moment:
Look in ... Documents and Settings\[users]\Application
Data\OpenOffice.org2\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\Office
in this directory there is the file Writer.xcu, that you can open with a
Ascii editor (i.e Notepad, ...)
Look for the <prop oor:name="AskForMerge"> and set the value to true.
Greetings,
Cor
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