Re: [libreoffice-users] CNET is claiming the best free MSO alternative is not LO

Le 08/06/2013 20:16, Doug a écrit :
> What the heck is a mail merge? I use Thunderbird, i wouldn't have any idea
> how to do any kind of mail in a word processor. And I don't know why I'd
> ever want to.

Say you want to send an invitation by mail to your 10.000 friends. You 
simply write the letter once with "holes" within. Then you merge (hence 
the name) the letter and the missing data which is stored in a seperate 
"database" (LibO uses the "datasource" term). As a result you get 10.000 
different letters, from just one.

Of course, a private person might not use that feature frequently, but 
any company which wants to advertise does this very often.
--
Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux

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