In Outlook, click on EXPORT, I believe it's on the FILE menu. Export your
contacts in your address book as a CSV file (comma separated values). That will
give you all of your information in a text format. Then go to OpenOffice Calc
and open your CSV file. Everything will jump into the appropriate columns. You
can then use this new file for Mail Merge, E-mail Merge in any way that you
like. You may want to name your new Calc file as something slightly different
so that your original file is not overwritten.
To learn about this feature, click on the HELP in OpenOffice and read about
MailMerge.
Two good e-mail clients for Oo are Thunderbird, or SeaMonkey (browser with
mail client and webpage composer). Both are open source (Mozilla).
Hope this helps with your transition.
James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Colin John wrote:
> I have just downloaded the software and it seems really good.
>
> I downloaded a trial version of Outlook Pro 2007 because I thought I
> would
> buy the software at the end of the trial. I have changed my mind since
> seeing Open Office. The only problem is I use Publisher and the Contacts
> part of Outlook.
> Can anyone suggest something I can use to take the place of Publisher and
> read the Outlook Pro 2007 documents and also a means of copying the
> Contacts
> as they stand without loosing any of the features.
>
I can't help you with Outlook, but you might consider Scribus as a
replacement for Publisher.
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