On Monday 15 Dec 2003 7:45 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > > I may well talk to you later on that one, Bryan. I do miss my > > Lotus Approach databases. I used them for so many things. For > > the main part I'm living without them, but just occasionally I > > have to dip into windows to use one. It may seem stupid, but one > > of the things I most miss is to be able to select the name and > > address fields and display them in label formats, 21 or 24 to a > > sheet. It was simple under Approach, but I think there would be > > no easy answer under Linux. I don't have a problem with paying, > > Bryan, if I can find the right app. > > Kind of interesting you mention this. I recently printed out Xmas > mailing labels to stock label media using OpenOffice with an > interface into a Gnome Card address database using mail merge > features that pull name, street address, city, state zip, etc. > First time I realilzed that OpenOffice could duplicate that > particular functionality that I used to use in MS Word. > Hmm - that sounds interesting. I do use GnomeCard, though I may have to import some .csv records to enlarge it. Truth is that I had real problems with OOo and SO under 9.0 - my documents got trashed if they grew too big (and others were kind enough to verify it for me), so I never really got down to using them under 9.1. Perhaps it's time to look again.
> > > But I will TRY to improve. > > > > Smile, damn you! We all get our chains pulled sometimes <g> > > Yeah, but I'm of Irish heritage. You should realize that our > smiles are widest when the fighting is thickest. <g> > > "God bless the Gaels of Eire, > for the men that God made mad, > for all their wars are merry, > and all their songs are sad." Oh dear - and I can only boast 1/8th Irish heritage - but there's very likely a bit of Viking in me (a lot settled around here), so that should compensate a bit, I think <g> BTW, an Irish friend of ours used to recite a longish poem, in which the punch lines were "for the knife was made of Sheffield steel but the cloth was Irish linen" or words to that effect. Do you know it? I'd love to see it if you do. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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