Re: [libreoffice-users] Merging Files

If not too private, can you email the label doc to me off list and I can 
see how it comes up in writer in regards the field definitions.
steve

On 2012-03-06 09:05, Dave Reese wrote:
> Yes, and I can use spread sheets with the same column headings. Libre Office did not just let me 
> merge the template I used in MS Word using the same date sheet in either a .doc file or an .xls 
> file. I was hoping there was a easy substitution without redifining the fields. I will experiment 
> further in Libre Office.
>
> Dave Reese
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> On Mar 5, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote:
>
> > I have not merged files in MS since word 6 for DOS, so things may have changed since then. I take 
> > it you have 2 .doc files, one is the label layout, is the other a comma separated list of the 
> > information to put on the labels?.
> > How many labels per page.
> >
> > I merge performance data (serial number, specifications, test data) from a spread sheet into a 
> > writer document to print certificates using writer. I have different fonts, formatting and sizes of 
> > print. Is this what you are hoping to do with your labels.
> >
> > steve
> >
> > On 2012-03-06 07:49, Dave Reese wrote:
> > > I am doing a mail merge, although not a letter or an email. I have been doing the merger from 
> > > another .doc file. The template uses multiple fonts with different spacing for each line. For the 
> > > jukebox labels, the type has to fit into boxes to show the phonograph record's artist, and the name 
> > > of the songs on each side of the record...
> > >
> > > Dave Reese
> > > Allentown PA
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mar 5, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Mark Stanton wrote:
> > >
> > > > You're presumably talking about mailmerging?
> > > >
> > > > What (type of file) are you merging into your doc file?
> > > >
> > > > Tentatively, you should just be able to change the fields in your doc
> > > > file so that LO recognises them as mailmerge fields (I don't think
> > > > it'll automatically  recognise them).
> > > >
> > > > This does depend on the details of how you're doing what you're doing
> > > > though.
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