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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] Mail Merge
From:       "Brian Johnson" <bjohnson () jecinc ! on ! ca>
Date:       2002-12-12 14:37:03
Message-ID: 20021212.nfy.12238600 () 192 ! 168 ! 0 ! 1
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See if it refreshes when you print it

You could start be do a print preview - if that doesn't work, print one page

Just ideas - I haven't tried this yet

There seems to be a lot of questions about mail lerges and address labels - please
post a complete description of what works when you find it :)



Tom Melvin (tom@tkrh.demon.co.uk) wrote*:
>
>CP Hennessy made comment on Thu Dec 12 00:28:36 2002 :
>> "Tools" -> "Data Sources..."
>>   "New Data Source"
>> 	Tab "General"
>> 	    "Database type" : "Text"
>> 	    "Data source URL : browse to whereever your csv file is.
>> 	Tab "Text"
>> 	    File in various obvious flelds
>>
>> And then in your Form file reference this datasource.
>
>Yes found that - set that up and for one run it is great. But if the
>letter is saved in OOo and then the datasource (csv file) changes and
>the letter re-opened the contents are set to the old data. OOo does not
>seem to refresh the data like MicroSoft Word does.
>
>
>Tom
>
>
>>
>> On Wednesday 11 December 2002 22:51, Tom Melvin wrote:
>> > Tom Melvin made comment on Tue Dec 10 16:41:07 2002 :
>> > > I can create a mail merge document pointing to a Data source  Ok but
>> > > when the data source 'changes' (it's a csv file) and I re-load the
>> > > letter the contents initially displayed do not change - they show the
>> > > 'old' data.
>> > >
>> > > Is there a way to get OpenOffice.org to 'refresh' the data without user
>> > > intervension?.
>> >
>> > If using a CSV file to pass info into OOo won't work is there a guide/FAQ
>> > somewhere that explains how to 'pass variables' into OOo. OOo is running
>> > under SuSE and accessing text files (can be any format) over an NFS
>> > share from SCO OpenServer.
>> >
>> > I need to 'grab' client/name and address details and automatically
>> > insert them into a letter/handout without users have to do much clicking.
>> >
>
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