Re: [users] Re: Please vote for this essential OpenOffice 2.0 usability feature

2005-08-12 Thread mike scott
On 11 Aug 2005 at 22:05, Doug Thompson wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, but could use more help please! Thanks. > > > > Generating a document (file) per database record is exactly the way mail > merge is supposed to work. The objective is to create multiple tailored > copies of a document

Re: [users] Re: Please vote for this essential OpenOffice 2.0 usability feature

2005-08-11 Thread Doug Thompson
Bottom Post mike scott wrote: On 9 Aug 2005 at 10:08, Doug Thompson wrote: ... 8< (snip) OK, I've had a chance to play around, after reading the document you suggested. It does look as though OOo goes some way to doing this, but there do seem to be some problems - either something's n

Re: [users] Re: Please vote for this essential OpenOffice 2.0 usability feature

2005-08-10 Thread mike scott
On 9 Aug 2005 at 10:08, Doug Thompson wrote: ... > > I like OOo very much, don't get me wrong. But I get very frustrated > > with problems like this that have no good workaround. > > > > You can create templates that can be reused each time you want to use > mail merge. That way, you only have

Re: [users] Re: Please vote for this essential OpenOffice 2.0 usability feature

2005-08-09 Thread Doug Thompson
mike scott wrote: On 8 Aug 2005 at 8:54, Doug Thompson wrote: Vaughn L. Reid III wrote: The issue of blank fields in mail merges has been raised several times in issuezilla since version 1.0.3, but it keeps getting reclassified as an enhancement. I have to disagree that this is an enhancem

Re: [users] Re: Please vote for this essential OpenOffice 2.0 usability feature

2005-08-09 Thread mike scott
On 8 Aug 2005 at 8:54, Doug Thompson wrote: > Vaughn L. Reid III wrote: > > > > The issue of blank fields in mail merges has been raised several times > > in issuezilla since version 1.0.3, but it keeps getting reclassified as > > an enhancement. I have to disagree that this is an enhancement.

Re: [users] Re: Please vote for this essential OpenOffice 2.0 usability feature

2005-08-08 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 07:10 -0500, Vaughn L. Reid III wrote: > The issue of blank fields in mail merges has been raised several times > in issuezilla since version 1.0.3, but it keeps getting reclassified as > an enhancement. I have to disagree that this is an enhancement. The > functionality

[users] Re: Please vote for this essential OpenOffice 2.0 usability feature

2005-08-08 Thread Doug Thompson
Vaughn L. Reid III wrote: The issue of blank fields in mail merges has been raised several times in issuezilla since version 1.0.3, but it keeps getting reclassified as an enhancement. I have to disagree that this is an enhancement. The functionality of a properly working and usable mail me

[users] Re: Please vote for this essential OpenOffice 2.0 usability feature

2005-08-08 Thread Vaughn L. Reid III
The issue of blank fields in mail merges has been raised several times in issuezilla since version 1.0.3, but it keeps getting reclassified as an enhancement. I have to disagree that this is an enhancement. The functionality of a properly working and usable mail merge is an essential compon

[users] Re: Please vote for this essential OpenOffice 2.0 usability feature

2005-08-08 Thread mike scott
On 7 Aug 2005 at 6:32, Vaughn L. Reid III wrote: > One of the crucial usability features that OpenOffice lacks is the > ability to automatically suppress blank lines caused by empty fields in > a mail merge. While that would be useful, it would seem better to fix a more general problem if it'

[users] Re: Please vote for this essential OpenOffice 2.0 usability feature

2005-08-07 Thread Colin J. Williams
Vaughn L. Reid III wrote: One of the crucial usability features that OpenOffice lacks is the ability to automatically suppress blank lines caused by empty fields in a mail merge. This issue has been submitted several times in issuezilla, but has not been given priority by the developers. This