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Posted to users@openoffice.apache.org by Jacquetta Ellinger <ja...@yahoo.com.INVALID> on 2019/12/14 22:22:04 UTC
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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.
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Re: Labels
Posted by Wade Smart <wa...@gmail.com>.
Ok.
Nice rant.
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On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 5:05 PM Jacquetta Ellinger
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> 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.
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Re: Labels
Posted by Martin Groenescheij <ma...@groenescheij.com>.
On 14/12/2019 23:22, Jacquetta Ellinger 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.
First open a new or existing Text document.
Now use the Mail Merge Wizard under the Tools menu
At Step 3 Select a Different Address List which open a menu with
existing databases.
Click add and browse to the spreadsheet with your addresses and select
the Tab with the data.
Now your spreadsheet is registered as a database.
The rest is business as usual.
> I could have had half of them written by hand by now. I’m going to have to buy Word and I hate that.
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