In this example, we are producing a letter. You can see these options in the figure below. The wizard can produce letters or, if a Java Mail connection exists, email messages. Select Use the current document and click Next. This will ensure that all the steps in the wizard are fully explored, although with experience you may find it more practical to use a draft you prepared earlier, which will allow skipping some steps. The wizard gives various options to select your starting document:įor the purposes of this description we assume that you opened a new text document. If the above limitations are not a hindrance to you, then open a new document with File > New > Text Document and start the Mail Merge wizard using Tools > Mail Merge Wizard. To create a professional looking document will require significant editing. In Step 5 the layout is idiosyncratic, with paragraph marks all over the place so as to space the address block frame and salutation.Again in Step 4, the General salutation is not editable and the default values are somewhat limited.Of course one cannot have a prefix such as ‘Dear’ in this case and it has to be manually entered in Step 6. Crippen, but only by creating an impossible trigger for recognising a female recipient, such that the merge defaults to male. Still in Step 4, it is possible to bodge something like Dr.It makes no allowance for Miss, nor does it permit sexless addressing such as Dr., or The Right Honourable. In Step 4 creating the salutation will only allow the sex-related Mr.If however you prefer to use the Mail Merge wizard, the technique is described below.īefore starting you should note the following limitations, current in OOo V2.3: The recommended way to create a form letter is the manual method described in Creating a form letter. Using the Mail Merge Wizard to create a form letter
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