Le 26/06/11 16:44, John B a écrit : Hi John,
> 1) On re-opening The database lost its connection to the letter and you > had a chore to re-link the data fields in the *.csv file to those in the > letter. Known bug. > > 2) To add a "new contact" is too complex. > Known limitation. Calc Sheets/CSV files are read only when the file is being accessed by the mailmerge, i.e. being used as a datasource, it has been like this for years. > 3) Merge, then adds all the fields again in bulk to the letter for a > 2nd time, so you have to delete all the 1st batch Seem to recall that this too, is a known bug. > > 4) I thought maybe it would be better then, to add new contacts to the > csv file in Calc > No problem there - up until you go back to Mail merge. > it corrupts the file in some way (or the 2 are incompatible). All the > 1st and last letters of any word are missing, eg, " company" becomes > "ompan" and "zip" becomes "i", and it does the same to the data, then > even when you merge you get nonsense data in the fields on the letter. > Henceforth, totally useless. > Also known bug, as far as I can remember. Look up the bugs in freedesktop : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=libreoffice+mail+merge and also : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34325 Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
