Mail Merge Recipient selection in StarOffice Writer

Writer is great, but the one thing which will stop us using it in a major way is the lack of Recipient Selection.

When merging letters etc more often than not you want to select the addresses/people you want.

Microsoft Word from about 2002 on, allows you to select/deselect all or any number you want.

We need this feature in Writer, so when can a SUN developer add this feature to StartOffice Writer. ?

This would then make the much improved StarOffice 8 mail merge wizard much more useful and would prompt us and I suspect a lot of people to move fully to Star Office.

Thanks,

[657 byte] By [zyx500] at [2007-11-25 22:46:03]
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If you simply want to print the merged documents you can open it, click to Print icon and answer 'yes' to the 'form letter' question. A dialog will appear where you can select the records desired.

If instead you want to save the merged doduments to a single file then you might try this macro by yours truly.

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=29291

You will need to insert the required Next Record fields but that is not difficult.

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