Place your cursor where you want the address. In the upper right of the icon bar of OpenOffice.org Write is, or should be, an icon for "Data Sources." Click that. Your Thunderbird Address Source box appears above your document. Notice there is a box on the right with "Addresses" as the source (assuming you named your Thunderbird address book data source, "Addresses.") In the file tree structure of Addresses are two sub directories: "Queries" and "Tables." You want Tables. Open that. You'll see your Thunderbird address books in there. I have several different address books. Highlight Personal Address Book. On the right screen of the data source box will list each entry you have in your specified address book (In this case it's Personal Address Book). Scroll down the list on the right and pick the one you want. Click the blank area (green arrow) of the address you want so the entire entry is highlighted. Once you've highlighted the address you want, click the "Data to Text" icon (The icon has 3 black horizontal lines on top of a green horizontal line and 3 black horizontal lines underneath the green horizontal line and the icon has a little red arrow on the left of it) Click the Data to Text icon, not the Data to Field icon. An "Insert Database Columns" pop up box appears. Notice 3 button options at the top: Table, Fields, and Text. Click the Text. Notice two boxes: Database Columns and Table Column(s).Highlight the Database entry and move them in the Table Column box the way you want them to appear on the letter. For example: In the database box, find First Name, highlight it and move it to the Table box by clicking the > arrow between the two boxes. Put your cursor after the First Name field in the Table box and put a space. Now find Last Name in the Database box, highlight it and move it to the Table box. Now you should have the fields - First Name (space) Last Name on the first line. Place your cursor after the Last Name field and Enter to start the next line. On the next line, you'll want the address. Then on the third line you'll want the city, state and zipcode. Once you get the Table box on your right how you want it to look, then click O.K. and your name, address, etc. pops in your document.
This may seem like a lot of work at first, but OpenOffice generally remembers your settings, so you can really fly. Greg Gordon Burgess-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have gone through the File-Wizards-Address Data Source function and added Thunderbird Contacts as my Address data source. What I cannot see, is how to insert an address into a document - a letter for example. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
