On Friday 15 December 2006 22:40, + Bill Henderson wrote: > [ MODERATED ] ******************** > Sirs > I wish to print about 40 labels for printing. > I have sheets of 30 labels and wish to define them so I can print them. > Then I need to define the title, firstname, surname, address, town, zip. > Could you point me in the right direction.
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Saturday 16 December 2006 11:20, Harold Fuchs wrote: > On Friday, December 15, 2006 10:40 PM [GMT+1=CET], Bill Henderson > > > There is a ton of documentation about Openoffice. A good starting point > is at http://documentation.openoffice.org/ > > There's a relevant article on the first part of your question, about > labels, at > http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2006/12/creating_two_or.html > > The second part of your question will probably involve using "mail > merge". There's chapter about this at > http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors/index.html. > Basically it involves putting the data into a "data source" - a Calc > spread sheet for example - and then defining the source and the required > fields within Writer's mail-merge facility. This way you only need enter > the data once and can easily keep it up to date. > > Writer comes with a whole slew of labels pre-defined. Common Avery A4 > formats are built-in. For non-standard labels you will probably have to > read up on using "templates" which is OO's technology for defining blank > documents with user-defined characteristics such as margins, page size, > headers, fonts, fields etc. etc. > Please reply to users@openoffice.org only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
