I would not condem OpenOffice because of a problem with doing a mail merge. I have been doing two mail merges every month from a Spreadsheet for years. One is for an insert for the mailing of a magazine and one is for use with a window face envelope. The references I used when I first started to do this are too old to refer to now (Page not found etc) but the manual for OpenOffice Writer (Chapter 11) gives instructions and a Google search gives text and video help. Not all things one tries to use a computer for work as expected as some times my mail merge goes like a breeze and then for some unknown reason next month they do not and I have to resort to a work around. Experience with working on a computer will find there is often more than one way to get the result wanted. Jean
On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 9:50 AM Alan Pearce <alannpea...@talktalk.net.invalid> wrote: > Rant it might be but I certainly agree. > > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Wade Smart <wadesm...@gmail.com> > Date: 14/12/2019 23:07 (GMT+00:00) > To: users@openoffice.apache.org, Jacquetta Ellinger < > jacquetta.ellin...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: Labels > > Ok.Nice rant.-- Registered Linux User: #480675Registered Linux Machine: > #408606Linux since June 2005On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 5:05 PM Jacquetta > Ellinger<jacquetta.ellin...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:>> I’m not a > programmer/developer but I’m pretty competent at using software, however, > OpenOffice is too tough. I like it generally, I like the concept of it, > but every time I try to do something new, I spend hours first searching out > instructions, then trying them, having them not work, trying again, having > them not work - that is files crashing and virtually wasting my life away. > Today, I cannot get OO to create a database from a spreadsheet I’ve created > so I can print a lousy 100 mailing labels. I could have had half of them > written by hand by now. I’m going to have to buy Word and I hate that.> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------> To > unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> For > additional commands, e-mail: > users-h...@openoffice.apache.org>---------------------------------------------------------------------To > unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@openoffice.apache.orgFor > additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
