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

On 24/06/2011 16:48, lee wrote:
> John B<johnb@email2.me>  writes:
>
> > On 24/06/2011 14:56, lee wrote:
> > > John B<johnb@email2.me>   writes:
> > >
> > > The mailmerge tool requires an address list, which is something I don't
> > > have and don't want to create in this case.
> > In lotus wordpro - which is next to pure perfection - you have "click
> > here boxes", which you place strategically in the places you need to
> > type your data. They typically say ">click here to enter the date<"
> > the when you do,  it jumps to the next box. All my fax heders and
> > letterheads have them.
> >
> > Also built in to Lotus Wordpro is an internal mini mail merge simply
> > by typing "<a new field name>" wherever you need the data , it will
> > save all your contact details as you go (mail merge on the fly).
> >
> > I have to say as yet I have not seen either of these 2 facilities in
> > LO, however, I would have thought "click here boxes" were universal
> > and I am just not looking hard enough.
> Thank you for bottom-posting :)
>
> Hm, that sounds like a nice feature; it's similar to what I'm doing,
> just without the fields. It's a little more complicated, though, since
> some of the data I'm entering is repeated at two places (and I enter it
> twice manually). There would have to be fields that are pointers to
> other fields already filled in --- perhaps Lotus Wordpro has something
> like that as well.
>
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Please accept my appologies for my last posting to you.

It was on top and I see you really like bottom postings, I will try not 
to do it again

regards

John B


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