This is my first time sending in an issue.  Please forgive me if I have not sent
it to the right place, and let me know where I can send it.  I use your
OpenOffice Suite 3.0.1 program extensively for seeing my patients in Home
Health, and use the Mail Merge program in MS Word to populate my notes that I
print off or email to my home office.  I would prefer to use your Mail Merge
Wizard in Writer instead.  I have created test odt and ods files which mimic my
spreadsheet and note, but I am not sure how to attach them to this description
so you can run them yourself to see the result.  I would be happy to email them
to you if you like.

Here is the process:
(1) Open the mail merge odt.
(2) Choose Tools, then Mail Merge Wizard.
(3) Choose radio button labeled "Use the current document" and hit Next>>.
(4) Choose radio button labeled "Letter" and hit Next>>.
(5) Choose Select Address List... button.
(6) Under the Select Address List, choose the data base labeled Spreadsheettest
from several data sources listed.
(7) After a moment, under the table column, appears Sheet1.
(8) Next choose the Filter button.
(9) Under Standard Filter, choose Field Name- Date, Condition- like, and Value-
type in 010109.  Then press OK.  Note in this test speadsheet there are only 6
records which match that value.
(10) Back at the Insert address block page I double check to make sure that the
Current address list: is Spreadsheettest.  I then press Next>>.
(11) At the Create salutation page, I press Next>>.
(12) At the Edit document page I press Next>>.  The Mail Merge small screen pops
up and counts off the document 1...2...3..and so forth to 6 of 6.
(12) The Personalize document screen appears and I press Next>>.
(13) The Save, print or send screen appears.  I choose the Save merged document
radio button. A new menu appears below that of Save merged document, and I
choose the radio button Save as a single document, and then press the Save
Documents button.  Type in Testresultmailmerge for the title and save the document.
(4) I press the Finish button.  Next I goto the above file and open it up. No
data has populated the fields, and I have 11 pages (which should have been 6
pages) saved of blank forms.

I would really like to stop using MS products (tired of the blue screen of
death), and use you exclusively.  Let me know what else I can do to help.

I have replicated this same procedure on MS Vista, and Ubuntu 9.04 Linux with
the same results.

Thanks for the great job you do!

Sincerely:

Joel H. Du Mond III, R.N.
jhd1181@yahoo.com