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What is mail merge? LibreOffice Writer provides very useful features to create and print: • Multiple copies of a document to send to a list of different recipients (form letters) • Mailing labels • Envelopes All these facilities, though different in application, are based around the concept of a registered data source, from which is derived the variable address information necessary to their function. This chapter describes the entire process. The steps include: 1) How to create and register a data source. 2) How to create and print form letters, mailing labels, and envelopes. 3) Optionally, how to save the output in an editable file instead of printing it directly. Creating and registering the data source A data source is a database containing the name and address records (and optionally other information) from which a mailing list may be derived. Although you can create and print mailing labels and envelopes without using a data source, in most cases using one is the best approach. This chapter assumes that you are using a data source. LibreOffice can access a wide variety of sources of data to create the database, including spreadsheets, text files and databases such as MySQL, Adabas, and ODBC. If the information to be used in the mail merge is currently in a format that LibreOffice cannot access directly, you need to convert it, for example by exporting it to a comma-separated values (CSV) file. For the following example we start with a spreadsheet with the following column (field) headers: Title, First name, Last name, Address, State/County, Country, Post Code, Sex, and Points. A sample of data is shown in Figure 304. Figure 304: Spreadsheet data example After being created as described below, for a data source to be directly accessible from within a Writer document, it must be registered. You only need to do this once; after that, the data source is available to all components of LibreOffice. 1) From within any Writer document, or from the LibreOffice Start Center, choose File > Wizards > Address Data Source. 306 LibreOffice 4.0 Writer Guide
2) The choices on the first page of the wizard vary with your operating system. Select the appropriate type of external address book. In this example, it is Other external data source. Click Next. Figure 305: Select type of external address book 3) On the next page of the Wizard, click the Settings button. Figure 306: Starting the Settings part of the Wizard 4) In the Data Source Properties page, select the Database type. In our example, it is Spreadsheet. Click Next. Figure 307: Selecting the database type Chapter 11 Using Mail Merge 307
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Contents Copyright.................
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Chapter 6 Introduction to Styles...
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Defining your own numbering sequenc
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Preface
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This site provides support for Libr
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Figure 1: Dialog showing common con
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New features in LibreOffice Writer
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What is Writer? Writer is the word
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Moving toolbars To move a docked to
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Figure 9: Selection of visible tool
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Mode Effect Standard selection Clic
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Starting a new document You can sta
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Figure 17. Creating a document from
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Figure 18. Saving a file in Microso
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Closing a document To close a docum
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Header/Footer: Jumps between the te
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Note Setting reminders Users of MS
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Chapter 2 Setting up Writer Choosin
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Help - Tips When Tips is active, on
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Figure 29: Choosing View options fo
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Figure 31: Choosing general printin
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eplace the screen font only and nev
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Personalization Using Personalizati
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Figure 41: Choosing Load and Save o
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Caution VBA Properties Figure 42: S
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General options The choices on the
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Figure 54: Choosing compatibility o
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Choosing options for HTML documents
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Introduction This chapter covers th
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When you paste text, the result dep
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Caution 1 Open Styles and Formattin
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Figure 81: Using the Insert Footnot
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Checking spelling and grammar Spell
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Using built-in language tools Write
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Note Figure 91: Synonyms on the con
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Line numbering Line numbering puts
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Merging modified documents The proc
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Using cross-references To ensure th
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For an Internet type hyperlink, cho
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Use page styles (with two columns)
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Tip You can also insert a page brea
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Inserting a landscape page into a p
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Changing the number of columns for
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Figure 127: Defining the space abov
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Chapter 5 Printing, Exporting, Faxi
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Note The options selected on the Pr
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Selecting what to print In addition
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3) Select the label stock in the Br
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Chapter 7 Working with Styles
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Preparing images for black-and-whit
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• Advantage - You can modify the
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toolbars 411 when to use 410 XForms
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