You might try adding your name and address list through the menu bar
items rather than with the wizard.
First, make sure the data source will be displayed with View|Data
Sources. Next, Edit|Exchange Database.
On the "Exchange Databases" dialog, click the "Browse" button and find
your new name and address spreadsheet. Expand that item and highlight
the sheet or named range you want, then click the "Define" button.
Return to your document and find the spreadsheet file and specific sheet
or range in the list displayed; make sure it's highlighted.
If your range had column headings, you can drag the appropriate column
headings to the right spot on the document to insert a field that will
be filled with that data when you do the merge.
Now you can go back to the mail merge wizard and skip the steps you
don't need; just click on the step you want.
Dan Lewis (ros) wrote:
On Thursday 20 December 2007 07:17:21 Ike Dawson wrote:
Good Afternoon All
I'm trying to help a family member mail merge with Open Office
2.3.1: we both have well endowed XP SP2 Dell machines and I am
getting the same results as he is!
Last year we had trouble mail merging in 2.2 which didn't work as in
the Help file: I merged for him using Word97 and he printed
it. We're now having a repeat performance.
Update to OOo 2.3.1 with an appropriate current document on screen
and entering the Mail Merge Wizard, at 'Step 3 Insert Address Block'
then moving to 3.'1 Select Address List', last years Calc sheet of
NADs is selected and works.
Going 'Add' and navigating to the new NAD source Calc Sheet, I
highlight and hit Open and it appears in the Add Window. However the
OK button to Choose it as the correct source, is greyed out as indeed
are all subsequent items under Steps, i.e. Steps 4 - 8
I've tried adding other NAD Sheets: whilst I can ADD them to the
list as potential NAD sources, I cannot OK the ~Choice of any of them
... nor can I delete any of them from the Add list.
Please would some one tell me where I'm going wrong but more
importantly how to put it right?
Yours aye
Ike Dawson>
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