Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge from query broken in 3.4.6?

2012-09-29 Thread Mark Stanton
Thanks Don, I'll have a scout about. Regards Mark -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge from query broken in 3.4.6?

2012-09-28 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Mark, This may help, but I can only get you pointed in the right direction. I've used base for about 8 or 9 years, first in OO, and now in LibreOffice. Initially I setup all of the fields, and then imported the data. The fields were all case sensitive. About 5 or 6 years ago I ran across a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge from query broken in 3.4.6?

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Stanton
Thanks for that Girvin. In fact my query does have the quotes around field names. I've included it at the bottom here. I haven't noticed any difference between " ` " (backtick) or either usual type of quotation mark either. I appear to be using the MySQL JDBC driver, com.mysql.jdbc.Driver, whi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge from query broken in 3.4.6?

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Stanton
If we're not a database, and we're not a mailmerge engine, we're running out of functionality... :-s I've managed to get it doing this non-trivial task without error, so I'm fairly pleased. I haven't got the pinpoint accuracy requirement, so I don't know if it's playing me about there. Really

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailmerge from query broken in 3.4.6?

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Stanton
Hi Dan, The only language I'm aware of that has a difference between single and double quotes is PHP, and that's only between what it does with strings rather than whether it recognises them as strings or not. I expect there will be some, my preference is single to reduce screen clutter. I'm

[libreoffice-users] Mailmerge from query broken in 3.4.6?

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Stanton
Using a mailmerge document that worked fine in the previous version (no, I don't know the number, but very recent, I'm getting updates through the Fedora repos) hardly works at all now. The document is an address sheet with three of images. It uses hidden paragraphs for almost every line, and