On Friday, December 15, 2006 10:40 PM [GMT+1=CET], Bill Henderson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sirs
I wish to print about 40 labels for printing.
I have sheets of 30 labels and wish to define them so I can print
them. Then I need to define the title, firstname, surname, address,
town, zip. Could you point me in the right direction.
Yours
Bill Henderson, Manchester
There is a ton of documentation about Openoffice. A good starting point
is at http://documentation.openoffice.org/
There's a relevant article on the first part of your question, about
labels, at
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2006/12/creating_two_or.html
The second part of your question will probably involve using "mail
merge". There's chapter about this at
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors/index.html.
Basically it involves putting the data into a "data source" - a Calc
spread sheet for example - and then defining the source and the required
fields within Writer's mail-merge facility. This way you only need enter
the data once and can easily keep it up to date.
Writer comes with a whole slew of labels pre-defined. Common Avery A4
formats are built-in. For non-standard labels you will probably have to
read up on using "templates" which is OO's technology for defining blank
documents with user-defined characteristics such as margins, page size,
headers, fonts, fields etc. etc.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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