I sure hope someone is awake and knows how to merge data into a Writer document from a Calc document. I started with Access 2000 data and finally managed to get it into an OOo 2.0.4 Calc file. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to get Writer to see the Calc file as a source of data that can be merged into the Writer document.
The data has 14 fields. I want to merge only five of them, and I need to merge them in a different order than they appear in the Calc document. Once, a long time ago, I did this in Writer 1.something on Windows. A window is supposed to pop up and you can select which fields you want. You can even apply styles, and add other static text in front of or after each field. I KNOW it can be done. But now that I am on OOo 2.0.4 Linux I cannot figure out how. I also know I am suppoed to do F4 to open the database window. The window opens, but I cannot get the Calc document to appear in it. I tried creating new databases, but that accomplishes nothing -- there are four now in the F4 window, and I also can't figure out how to get rid of them. The Help files are not very helpful. All I can find is that what I want to do is easy. But the authors of the Help file must have felt it was so easy that it wasn't necessary to say how. I would be eternally grateful if someone could give me step by step instructions for getting a Calc file to appear in the F4 window? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
