Mail merge saved into individual documents

users
#1

Hello,
Using LibreOffice after some years under OOo...
The Mail merge has an option to save the merged documents into one single document OR into individual documents, with some parameters to give an individual name to each doc...
But this does NOT work, it does only create one single document...
This was working in an older OOo (3.0 ??) but does not work in 3.3, and neither into LO 3.4.1...
Does anyone else see that problem ??
Regards,
Olivier

#2

Confirmed, suggest you file a bug.
steve

#3

a bug had been filed; (2) that OOo rewrote the print module for ver3.3.3
which resulted in the fault, and: (3) LibO picked it up from OOo. The
solution for me so far is to revert to a OOo version that worked.
All the best, nvsoar

#4

This is a pain

The way I did it was to print the entire document using the PDF (and not "returning to Mail Merge Wizard" - whilst you are in Personalise Mode), this also gets rid of the blank pages (how strange!), then exporting the PDF file to Paperport, ( by Scansoft - a scanner program) which has the ability to unstack 1 or all the pages (one click) into separate pages with (editable) sequential file names.

I have mentioned before with LO mail merge that it needs a tool and navigation bar (preferable one copied from Lotus Word Pro).

regards

John B

#5

OK, I'm waiting for the Bugzilla account to create the bug... Maybe I will have a look at the code to solve it myself.... Who knows ??
Olivier

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
Did you manage to file the bug-report in the LibreOffice area or OpenOffice?
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
Hopefully reports filed agaist LibreOffice get some sort of priority when people
are looking for something to fix. The "Easy Hacks" is a good way to pick bugs
that you might e able to help with to develop your skills before taking on
greater challenges. It's even a good idea to start that way if you are an
experienced and skilled dev although it might take a LOT less Easy Hacks before
you get warmed-up if you are. If you are completely new there are mentors to
help guide you through.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

Bug 39335 filed....

Olivier

#8

Hi :slight_smile:
Nicely done :slight_smile: Lets hope someone spots it and takes an interest soon
Good luck and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#9

Hi Olivier,

Bug 39335 filed....

Sorry, but there is already a bug report for this.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32899

so I will be closing your report as a duplicate. Thanks for posting anyway.

Alex

#10

Hi :slight_smile:
I made a bit of a mistake in the bug-reporting place but i don't think it harmed
anything? I just duplicated the post that Alex made. Given that there are a
lot of triagers out there i think it's better to post a duplicate report than
risk a bug slipping by but it's a bit embarrassing to post a pointless comment!
lol
Apols and regards from
Tom :slight_smile: