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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] mail merge
From:       Phill Gillespie <phill.gillespie () snipef ! org>
Date:       2002-10-24 8:31:54
Message-ID: 3DB7AFFA.2090705 () snipef ! org
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Drag and Drop for fields in 1.0 and 1.0.1:
*  Using an unsaved new document works fine.
*  As Solveig wrote once you have saved a document you have to turn off 
editting and then back on again.

The good news is that this is resolved in build 643 :-D

P h i l l


Solveig Haugland wrote:

>Wow, that was a humdinger. I've done this before, with 1.0.1 on Win2k, with
>absolutely no problems, except that back then (which was Windows ME, come to think
>of it), I had to drag the fields into a document that hadn't been saved yet.
>
>Just tried to do it again now, and got the same Ghostbusters symbol you did. Then
>after much random fiddling got it to work and had no idea what happened.
>
>But figured it out.
>
>To make the file accept the field you want to drag in:
>    - Make sure you've saved the document at least once.
>    - Click the Edit File icon on the function bar, at the top of the window.
>It'll become unrecessed and the file won't be editable.
>    - Click the Edit File icon again to make the file editable again.
>
>This is what worked for me, at least. Thanks for bringing this up--it's going in
>the OpenOffice.org book.
>
>Solveig
>
>
>
>Robert Citek wrote:
>
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>
>>How does one do a mail merge in OpenOffice 1.0.1 under Win2K?
>>
>>I've followed the instructions at
>>  http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/writer2_EN.html#2
>>but with no luck.  Everthing works just fine for step 1 and most of step 2.
>> But at step 2.4.bullet#4 where it begins "Holding the mouse button down,
>>... ", the field never appears in my document.  Instead the mouse cursor
>>changes from an arrow to a thick "NO" symbol (a circle with a line through
>>it).
>>
>>Has anyone been able to get mail merge to work?
>>
>>Pointers to resources are greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Regards,
>>- Robert
>>
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