To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=99743 Issue #|99743 Summary|mail merge misbehaving (good decription below :-) Component|Word processor Version|OOo 3.0.1 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|ui Assigned to|writerneedsconfirm Reported by|thnielsen
------- Additional comments from thniel...@openoffice.org Sat Feb 28 22:32:15 +0000 2009 ------- Good afternoon Finally got the printing going of the merge of my wifes customers, and the mailing (invoice) that was a hard battle because of the issue below. Sorry to claim defect - others might call it a feature change, enhancement request etc, but in its form, I really think it is a defect. When doing a mailmerge from a text file written in writer, and a spreadsheet made in calc (OpenOffice 3.0.1 (french, but should not matter for the issue)) some times the filter condition is not taken into account. I do the mailmerge like this: in writer (sorry if the menu items references are not entirely correct - I have to guess what the english menues are called, since I only have the french version) do: Tools, mailmerge, use active document, next (letter), next, select an address list, choose spreadsheet and column, and then click filter - I use "not empty" as filter, then "next" until the merge happens. IF the column you are filtering on contains both alpha-numeric cells and numeric cells (cell format is left to auto). Then the filtering will not happen, and a letter will get created for all lines in the spreadsheet (no user warning). If you have either pure numeric cells (and empties of course) or pure alpha-numeric (I guess, but did not test) it will work - only documents will get created where the filter cells contains stuff (remember I filter on "not empty". Wether this is working as designed or not is less interesting until at least the user is notified, that his filter is ignored because of mixed content OR even better, it treats mixed content in a meaningfull way (if this means cutting the filtering options, so be it :-) Hope the above makes sense - it was written late evening after many hours of troubleshooting. Thanks for a great product!! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
