Re: [libreoffice-users] using fields in a text document

Hi Lee

Its called "mailmerge"  you will love it.

Tools > Mailmerge


regards

John

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On 24/06/2011 14:13, lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a text document with mostly static data, and since it's kind of a
> letter, there are a few things that are variable data, like a company
> name, street, city, eventually a persons name and a salutation.
>
> Now I would like to make it so that I can press a button and be
> presented with a form or the like that lets me fill in the variable
> data, inserts the data at the appropriate places into the document,
> saves the document to a file I specify and exports the document as PDF
> with a password for access rights to the PDF file set.
>
> How do I do that? Does it take some kind of advanced programming?
>
>
>
>
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