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.
