Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail merge formatting

Cor Nouws <oolst@nouenoff.nl> writes:

> Hi Lee,
>
> lee wrote (07-07-11 23:06)
> > Steve Edmonds<steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>  writes:
>
> > > I am trying to perform a mail merge with numbers but can't seem to
> > > control the number format.
>
> As you may have seen, Steve is both helped and happy.

Yes, and I'm happy when it works for him :)

> > The mailmerge tool is too buggy to be used.
>
> Hmm, such a comment does not seem so helpful ;-)

The idea behind the comment is that he might spend a lot of time to get
it set up the way he needs it just to find out that the mailmerge tool
doesn't work.  So when he knows that it doesn't work, he might test it
before wasting time, or find another way.

> But OK, I can understand some level of frustration. I work with mail
> merge for years, and oh so often had to file bugs when a new (beta)
> version of OpenOffice.org was made available. Luckily, many problems
> were solved fine, and I am able to do most of my work without
> problem. Obviously because I know how to find my way and have the
> attitude to work with clean documents and data. But OK, it works.

Well, I tried it and found that it would sometimes send mails and
sometimes not, that it messes up the PDF which is just fine when
exported manually or by a macro and that modifying the "Properties" of
the messages to be sent crashes LO.  Besides that, some other bugs
turned up so that I consider LO to be in some alpha stage.

"Some level of frustration" isn't so crucial.  Crucial is getting the
results one needs.  That bugs may be fixed some time in the future is a
good thing, yet it doesn't help me much when I need the results now. I'm
getting them with LaTeX now.  The difference is that trying with LO lead
to finding bugs and to things getting more and more difficult, while
trying with LaTeX lead to progress, to things getting easier and to
results.  Both ways involved frustration, of course.

Anyway, I'm surprised that mailmerge works for you.  I could have used
it if it worked.


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