Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 84156
Mail Merge Wizard - Limitations
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:45:09 UTC
It's difficult to see a benefit from using the wizard, as opposed to creating a form letter manually, mainly because of the following limitations. 1.In Step 4 creating the salutation will only allow the sex related Mr. and Mrs. It makes no allowance for Miss, nor does it permit sexless addressing such as Dr., or The Right Honourable etc.. 2.Still in Step 4, it is possible to bodge something like "Dr. Crippen", but only by creating an impossible trigger for recognising a female recipient, such that the merge defaults to male. Of course one cannot have a prefix such as "Dear" in this case and it has to be manually entered in Step 6. 3.Again in Step 4, the General salutation is not editable and the default values are – a technical term here – somewhat limited. It would be a big step forward if this list could be edited and data source fields entered, so as to support 2) above.
Reassigned to HI.
1,2. Custom Salutation isn't working - step 2. Customize salutation is disabled. 3. Only four options in General salutation list box. AOO410m14(Build:9760) - Rev. 1573601 2014-03-03 17:47:48 (Mo, 03 Mrz 2014) Win 7
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