2013/6/8 Jean-Francois Nifenecker <[email protected]>: > 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.
Especially if we talk about 10 000 friends. I don't even know ig I met 10 000 people all together in my whole life yet… I think I have like 10 friends… Johnny Rosenberg > -- > Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
