Re: [libreoffice-users] Need Help Setting Up Mail Merge

Le 24/06/2012 07:03, Charles218 a écrit :
> I've spent several hours going around in circles trying to get mail merge
> setup and running in LibreOffice. It was working fine in OpenOffice, but OO
> starting crashing and is currently unusable on my Mac.
>
> Using the "Address Data Source" wizard, I can not get everything in place. I
> have a data document that is exported from Filemaker Pro, I tried "tab" and
> "csv" both. Is there a correct file type that I should use? Here are the
> steps that I am taking,
>
> Address book type - "other external data source"
>
> Connection Settings - I click on "Settings"
>
> Database type - I select "Text" from the drop down menu
>
> Path to the text files - I browse to the file that Filemaker exported, but
> it is greyed out. I can only select the folder that contains the exported
> csv or tab file.
>
> I can then specify the type of file, and the field separator, etc., but the
> actual file never gets selected.

That's WAD (working as designed): a text database is just a directory 
containing the text file(s). Any text file you add to the "database" 
becomes available as a table.

So just go on and you'll find you text file as a table in the text DB.

--
Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux



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