Dear Alex
Thanks for the link, I had no idea of the shear quantity of bugs that
are in the LO Mail merge feature, had I have known I would never have
considered it, especially as there a numerous new ones being reported
and the old ones as you say have been there for years - Mail merge in
essence not only proves to me that it is unusable, but growing in this
arena with others. I would think that greying out this option would be
one answer, but then how would we find the bugs?
It prompts the question "does anything work" properly and when I mean
properly I mean fully, no bugs, no workarounds, no macro's, no file
editing, no putting one thing in front of another, with full up to date
documentation & tutorials etc. - ( my granddads answer to everything >
"when the revolution comes")
At present I use LO as a MS doc reader / converter for incoming email
attachments, which seems to work very well (but then excluding *.rtf
files) , but I would genuenly like to use LO fully in the future. But
after the horror of that Bug list - the developers have some mountain to
climb.
With word processing, I would have thought that once you get past fonts
and indexing - mailmerge comes next in the pecking order.
One good thing - I know how to access the bug list before I explore LO
further.
thanks
John B
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On 26/06/2011 22:10, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
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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