Hmmm..I am using OOo1.0.1 and never encounter this problem. But with 
OOo1.0 , it only works with a new document.

Just my 2 cents.

Phill Gillespie menulis:

> 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:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> 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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