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

Le 26/06/11 16:44, John B a écrit :

Hi John,


> 1) On re-opening The database lost its connection to the letter and you
> had a chore to re-link the data fields in the *.csv file to those in the
> letter.

Known bug.


> 2) To add a "new contact" is too complex.

Known limitation. Calc Sheets/CSV files are read only when the file is
being accessed by the mailmerge, i.e. being used as a datasource, it has
been like this for years.



> 3) Merge, then adds all the fields again in bulk  to the letter for a
> 2nd time, so you have to delete all the 1st batch

Seem to recall that this too, is a known bug.


> 4) I thought maybe it would be better then, to add new contacts to the
> csv file in Calc
> No problem there - up until you go back to Mail merge.
> it corrupts the file in some way (or the 2 are incompatible). All the
> 1st and last letters of any word are missing, eg, " company" becomes
> "ompan" and "zip" becomes "i", and it does the same to the data, then
> even when you merge you get nonsense data in the fields on the letter.
> Henceforth, totally useless.

Also known bug, as far as I can remember.


Look up the bugs in freedesktop :

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=libreoffice+mail+merge


and also :

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34325




Alex


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