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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 10 20:11:36 -0700 2005 ------- If development time and budget prevents fixing this issue before OpenOffice 2.0, please consider adding information to the included mail merge help that describes how to accurately configure the mail merge to suppress blank lines when all the fields on the line are empty. Here are my suggestions to add to the help 1. Place information on the mail merge screen stating that the default behavior of the mail merge wizard is to not suppress blank lines caused by empty fields 2. Place a link in the help that will take someone to the help about inserting hidden paragraphs. 3. Explain in the hidden paragraph help that each line that uses this feature needs to be a separate paragraph. Note: On my OpenOffice 1.9.m22 build it appears that the mail merge wizard inserts paragraph breaks now by default. That's good if that is the case. If not, the instructions in 4 and 5 below need to be included. 4. Note that the mail merge and label wizard do not insert paragraph breaks between lines by default. The user must do that manually. 5. Include instructions explaining to the user that the easiest way to confirm a paragraph return is to a. Turn on hidden characters and b. hit the enter key at the end of each line and then backspace to remove the blank line 6. Include a final step-by-step example of how to set up a mail merge with hidden paragraphs if the fields on the line are blank. A suggestion for this example is how to set up a page of mailing labels. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
