If I understand you correctly, you see the merged address when you click on
EDIT DOCUMENT. To change the VIEW to FIELD VIEW, click on the VIEW menu and
click on FIELD NAMES to put a checkmark next to FIELD NAMES. This will reveal
the fields you have chosen to merge and the data source for that field. You may
also wish to click on FIELD SHADINGS to put a checkmark next to FIELD SHADINGS.
You can toggle between the merged information and the field information by
alternately hitting Ctrl+F9 for FIELD NAMES, and Ctrl+F8 for FIELD SHADINGS.
I've never tried to merge a data source in rtf format, but if it's written in
csv style, then all you would need to do would be to rename the format of the
data source from rtf to csv. You can accomplish this in a text editor by
opening the rtf file in WINDOWS NOTEPAD and hitting SAVE AS and make sure you
change the choice SAVE AS TYPE Text File to All Files(*.*).
Gary Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You need to think about what you really want. You want a document with
an address in it. A mail merge is easy if you want to select an address
from a file. This inverts what you want, which is to start with an
address then add a letter, but it should work.
If you have several standard address files and multiple standard letters
that you want to merge - to send a standard letter to a particular
person - then you can either do the mail merge from the letter or you
can start with your template and cut and paste the address into it. If
that is too much effort, write a macro to run when the template is
opened to prompt you for the address file. If you insist on starting
with the address, write the macro to append the letter to your document.
If the problem is simply that the .rtf files are wrong, try modifying
them in OOo Writer to be the size and position you want.
In any event, what you are asking is far from clear. Perhaps you could
post an example or some more details?
harry conings wrote:
> Hi
> i think i am stupid i cannot find a clue.
> Mail merge will not work for me. When i use the wizard
> he immediatly puts the data in my document . That does not work for me .
> I want to change the csv (wich has only 2 lines a header and 1 line of
> data) file
> with a little perl script to put a adres in from our accounting program.
> Then i want to open a template and oops and there is a letter with the
> right adress in it
> Is this so difficult ? or am i stupid. Probably the last.
> Is there a simple way to get this done.
> In microsoft office i put adres , and other data in little rft files.
> Inserted the file and let both file be connected if the rtf changes the doc
> changes
> This also works in openoffice but openoffice makes my rtf pagewide (it is
> only 6 cm wide in rtf)
> When i make it smaller to get my adres in the right place my text goes
> smaller to.
> I want to get rid off microsoft I don't like there policies.
> When this problem is solved i can leave microsoft behind and i will be a
> happy guy.
> thks
> Harry
>
> "S Perry" schreef:
>
>> What you want to accomplish is a Mail Merge function. Click on TOOLS >
>>
> MAIL
>
>> MERGE. Read about Mail Merge available in the Oo Help. You can also use
>>
> the
>
>> QUERY function to select your records.
>>
>>
>> harry conings wrote:
>> I need to 'grab' 1 client/name and address details and
>>
> automaticallyinsert
>
>> them into a letter/handout made from a template without users have to do
>> muchclicking.how should i proceedI tried with a csv file with one adress
>> but i can not figure outhow a template can grab the one adres in the csv
>> file en put in the letterautomaticly when you open it(i can do it by hand
>> by F4 and than select the adress en than push data to fields)Has anyone a
>> solution fore thisrgds harry
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> Suzanne L. Perry
>> P O Box 7493
>> Louisville, KY 40257-0493
>> Phone/Fax: 502-895-0691
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> --
> Harry Conings
> I.C.E.
> Liebroekstraat 43
> 3545 Halen
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