Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge Salutation

Hi :)
Sorry you don't seem to have had any answers!  Have you been able to
solve the problem?  If not then it might be worth asking again to see
if anyone missed it before or if anyone new has arrived.

I get the impression that whatever the wizard produces is possible to
edit quite heavily?  Also i think it might be better to start with a
fresh empty Writer document and use Mail-merge to connect it to a
database and then you can insert fields into appropriate paces and
edit the whole document as a fairly normal Writer document.  I think
the limitation on that is that it won't let you input new data into
the database that way.

Regards from
Tom :)



On 30 November 2013 19:39, Andrew <abrager@bak.rr.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to do a mail merge using the wizard  (is there any other way?),
> and I'm having great difficulty making it do what I need to do.
>
> My data has one field for the name.  A sample name is "Gary L & Judy A
> Smith".  I simply want it to say "Dear Gary L & Judy A Smith," or even
> better "Dear Gary & Judy Smith,". **I'm unable to accomplish this simple
> task.  Instead, the best I can come up with is "Dear Mrs. Gary L & Judy A
> Smith"**which is close, but forces me to use a salutation I don't want.
> Turning off salutations means I don't get the "Dear anything, " which is not
> what I want either.*
> *
> Can someone walk me through the proper sequence to get this specific result?
>
> Thank you in advance.*
> *
>
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