Re: [libreoffice-users] More mailmerge woes

2012-03-18 Thread Mark Stanton
Herr Säger, you may have hit the nail on the head, thank you. Yes, even though my query was correctly displayed as the driving data for the document (of course, since I'm using mailmerge, this is a Writer document that has the problem), when I went through the Change datasource

Re: [libreoffice-users] More mailmerge woes

2012-03-17 Thread Mark Stanton
The File / Print menu will ask if you want to print a mail merge. Just say yes then enjoy the olde OOo v1 wizard. So it does! That's cute. Unfortunately it only lists tables as data sources, and mine is a query :-( Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] More mailmerge woes

2012-03-16 Thread Nino Novak
On Friday 16 March 2012, 13:19:42 Mark Stanton wrote: [field name shown instead of content] Any ideas? 1) Did you try to edit the field properties and change its source by editing it manually instead of clicking? (If I remember correctly, there has been a similar bug in OOo middle age, that

Re: [libreoffice-users] More mailmerge woes

2012-03-16 Thread Mark Stanton
Thanks for all of this. The only wizard I've used on this is the mailmerge wizard, which I can't avoid (can I?) Is that the only manual, or is there a way to edit the file more manually than that, presumably not through Writer. Is it just xml? Yes, every line has a conditional paragraph

Re: [libreoffice-users] More mailmerge woes

2012-03-16 Thread Mark Stanton
And to cover the other points not in my reply below, no there are no special characters in the field names. I'm not certain if fields from queries could be the cause, but it seems unlikely since the first line works. Great ideas, thanks! Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For

Re: [libreoffice-users] More mailmerge woes

2012-03-16 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 16/03/2012 20:15, Mark Stanton a écrit : The only wizard I've used on this is the mailmerge wizard, which I can't avoid (can I?) Yes, you can ;-) The File / Print menu will ask if you want to print a mail merge. Just say yes then enjoy the olde OOo v1 wizard. -- Jean-Francois