Re: Pringing adrs labels
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Maurice Howe mauriceh...@gmail.com wrote: I need help printing mailing labels for a newsletter. My data is a .doc file comprised of a TABLE with names, addresses, etc. Using writer/tools/mail-merge, I get as far as use-current-doc/letter but the insert address block fields are grayed-out. The select-address-list tab shows my filename but I can't get past that. Hello Maurice - I've tried a few experiments to perform mail merge. I have not been able to find a way to have the source of the data be in a .doc file (or a .odt file for that matter). The instructions I found provide reference to using a text file or a spreadsheet as the data source. https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Creating_Mail_Merge_Documents_From_Text/CSV_or_Spreadsheets My suggestion would be copy the address table from the Word document into a spreadsheet. (I tested copy from Word table into Calc spreadsheet and that preserved the column and row layout.) Then use the spreadsheet as the data source. This method worked in my tests.
Re: Pringing adrs labels
That worked like a charm, Alan. Thanks so much for your help. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Alan B abo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Maurice Howe mauriceh...@gmail.com wrote: I need help printing mailing labels for a newsletter. My data is a .doc file comprised of a TABLE with names, addresses, etc. Using writer/tools/mail-merge, I get as far as use-current-doc/letter but the insert address block fields are grayed-out. The select-address-list tab shows my filename but I can't get past that. Hello Maurice - I've tried a few experiments to perform mail merge. I have not been able to find a way to have the source of the data be in a .doc file (or a .odt file for that matter). The instructions I found provide reference to using a text file or a spreadsheet as the data source. https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Creating_Mail_Merge_Documents_From_Text/CSV_or_Spreadsheets My suggestion would be copy the address table from the Word document into a spreadsheet. (I tested copy from Word table into Calc spreadsheet and that preserved the column and row layout.) Then use the spreadsheet as the data source. This method worked in my tests.
Re: Pringing adrs labels
Thanks, Alan. I'll give that a shot. I appreciate your time advice. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Alan B abo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Maurice Howe mauriceh...@gmail.com wrote: I need help printing mailing labels for a newsletter. My data is a .doc file comprised of a TABLE with names, addresses, etc. Using writer/tools/mail-merge, I get as far as use-current-doc/letter but the insert address block fields are grayed-out. The select-address-list tab shows my filename but I can't get past that. Hello Maurice - I've tried a few experiments to perform mail merge. I have not been able to find a way to have the source of the data be in a .doc file (or a .odt file for that matter). The instructions I found provide reference to using a text file or a spreadsheet as the data source. https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Creating_Mail_Merge_Documents_From_Text/CSV_or_Spreadsheets My suggestion would be copy the address table from the Word document into a spreadsheet. (I tested copy from Word table into Calc spreadsheet and that preserved the column and row layout.) Then use the spreadsheet as the data source. This method worked in my tests.
Re: Pringing adrs labels
Glad to assist. And thank you for letting us all know your results. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Maurice Howe mauriceh...@gmail.com wrote: That worked like a charm, Alan. Thanks so much for your help. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Alan B abo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Maurice Howe mauriceh...@gmail.com wrote: I need help printing mailing labels for a newsletter. My data is a .doc file comprised of a TABLE with names, addresses, etc. Using writer/tools/mail-merge, I get as far as use-current-doc/letter but the insert address block fields are grayed-out. The select-address-list tab shows my filename but I can't get past that. Hello Maurice - I've tried a few experiments to perform mail merge. I have not been able to find a way to have the source of the data be in a .doc file (or a .odt file for that matter). The instructions I found provide reference to using a text file or a spreadsheet as the data source. https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Creating_Mail_Merge_Documents_From_Text/CSV_or_Spreadsheets My suggestion would be copy the address table from the Word document into a spreadsheet. (I tested copy from Word table into Calc spreadsheet and that preserved the column and row layout.) Then use the spreadsheet as the data source. This method worked in my tests. -- Alan Boba CISSP, CCENT, ITIL v3 Foundations 2011
Pringing adrs labels
I need help printing mailing labels for a newsletter. My data is a .doc file comprised of a TABLE with names, addresses, etc. Using writer/tools/mail-merge, I get as far as use-current-doc/letter but the insert address block fields are grayed-out. The select-address-list tab shows my filename but I can't get past that. What am I doing wrong? A detailed how to would be appreciated.
