Disable Mail Merge Toolbar

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#1

Version: 7.1.3.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 47f78053abe362b9384784d31a6e56f8511eb1c1
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19042
UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-IE (en_GB); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Whenever I start a new writer document the Mail Merge toolbar is always
visible. I have tried every trick I can think of to prevent this
happening. Destroying my user profile seems to be the only option

Is anyone else here experiencing this issue, or found a solution to
persistently visible toolbars?

Thanks & Regards
Dave

#2

Well it seems that 7.1.3.2 is not for me. No matter what I try the
installer (clean or update) attacks and destroys my user profile to make
the Mail Merge toolbar always visible. I will continue to PLAY with
7.1.3.2 as a parallel install, but for production work on Windows I am
forced to stick with 7.1.2.2

This gives me a very uncomfortable feeling that future version updates
might start to introduce more of these non-critical, but annoying
issues, which in turn work to defeat much of our hard work in promoting
the LibreOffice project/software.

Dave

#3

There's hope!

Although I see the same behaviour in the released 7.1.3, I do not see it in
LibreOfficeDev 7.1.4.
Deo Gratias

Al Maloney
Velox Versutus Vigilans

#4

Thanks Al, but 7.1.4 is not the solution. Being a "Dev" build it is
installed in parallel with the currently installed release build, which
means it creates a separate "clean" user profile. If I remove the 7.1.4
Dev profile and replace it with a copy of my 7.1.2.2 profile, the Mail
Merge toolbar problem instantly returns.

Obviously, there is something in my 7.1.2.2 profile that subsequent LO
versions choke on.

I am going to run some test installs on some of my other Win 10 boxes,
to see if I can find a clue to the underlying cause of the issue.

Dave

#5

I use LibreOffice 7.1.3.2 (x64) on Ubuntu (Debian version. I do not have the same problem at all when opening a new Writer document. I do see View > Toolbars > Mail Merge when opening a new text document, but it is not checked as it appears yours is. Perhaps, it is the Window's version? Give me a little time, and I will install this version on my Windows 10 part of my computer.

Dan

#6

Hi Dan,

I appreciate you taking the time to look into this, but after several
hours of investigation I finally tracked down the culprit. Originally I
couldn't figure out why I didn't have this issue on my main Linux box.
So I started comparing my configurations for LO under Win 10 & PCLinuxOS
KDE, which as far as possible I try to keep in sync with each other. The
only noticeable difference was the default template being used.

It turns out that there was some kind of corruption in the default
template on the Win 10 machine and once I created a new default template
the Mail Merge toolbar issue disappeared. However, I am still left
wondering why the corrupted template impacted on version 7.1.3.2 and
version 7.1.2.2 was totally unaffected by it. Yet another of life's
little mysteries :wink:

Best Regards
Dave

#7

Yes, it is one of life's mysteries. It is one that I will not likely have very often. When I install a new version of LibreOffice, I modify the bootstrap file changing the version from 4 to what the actual version. Example: in my config folder: this contains 7.0 and 7.1. These may or may not be identical depending upon whether I change something in  the 7.0.x or 7.1.x version. What I do not know is exactly what the Window's installer does with the config files of the previous version. Are they just deleted? For that matter, when you are running in parallel, are there two config folders in Windows, one for the version running in parallel and one for the one that is not?

Dan

#8

Hi,

Version: 7.1.3.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 47f78053abe362b9384784d31a6e56f8511eb1c1
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19042
UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-IE (en_GB); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Whenever I start a new writer document the Mail Merge toolbar is always
visible. I have tried every trick I can think of to prevent this
happening. Destroying my user profile seems to be the only option

Is anyone else here experiencing this issue, or found a solution to
persistently visible toolbars?

I think you are experiencing that : https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141015
Summary: It's not visible to user that a MailMerge document without database fields is associated with the database

Best regards.
JBF