Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 115861
mail merge - user defined salutation not correctly inserted into document
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:15:49 UTC
Dear Madame and Sir, Please give me a Email and I will send You two screenshots to explain the problem even better. In step 4 of setting up a serial letter Config: Dear <Salutation> <Name>, Preview: Dear Mr. Berner, everthing seems fine, but In step 6 it turns out that the program does not stick to what the preview promise? It puts the address OK but not the salutation. Instead one reads Dear <Salutation> <Name>, So to me it seems a bug. The program does not replace the variables with the corresponding content? Best Regards, Martin
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What kind of document is your mail merge letter based on? Could by that the fields are placeholders, not variable fields. Could you please attach the letter document to this issue? Thanks!
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the issue should be easy reproducible with any *.odt document and the serial assistant...
OK, now I understood the problem... the manually entered field from step 4 won't be inserted as field in the document. MRU->OS: when creating a mail merge letter, it is possible to create a personalized Salutation in step 4. Under "General Salutation" enter something like "Dear <Last Name>" which will be displayed correctly with the database content in the preview of step 4. But this field content will not be inserted into the document (see step 6) - instead the field name will be inserted as plain text.
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