#Mail merge on mac frustrating install#
#Mail merge on mac frustrating manual#

This is best when you know the list contains records that you don't want to see or include in the mail merge. For example, you might want to send a form letter to only those customers in your file that have a specific postal code. The list of recipients appears in the Mail Merge Recipients dialog box, where you can refine the list of recipients.

In the Select Contacts dialog box, click the contact folder that you want to use in the mail merge, and then click OK.

You can refer to the information in this article when you reach Step 3 of the Mail Merge Wizard, Select recipients. Note If you want more help with the mail merge process, on the Mailings tab, in the Start Mail Merge group, click Start Mail Merge and then click Step by Step Mail Merge Wizard.

In the Start Mail Merge group, click Select Recipients, and then click Select from Outlook Contacts.

The active document becomes the main document (main document: In a mail-merge operation in Word, the document that contains the text and graphics that are the same for each version of the merged document, for example, the return address or salutation in a form letter.).

In Word, on the Mailings tab, in the Start Mail Merge group, click Start Mail Merge and then click the type of document that you want to make.

For more information on mail merge, including printing labels and envelopes, see help in Word. Note Because mail merge is a task in Word 2010, it cannot be started from Outlook.

#Mail merge on mac frustrating install#

This is extremely penalizing and made us ditch Libre Office completely (at least version 6, but at the IT desk I work for, we decided to install Open Office instead, to prevent any further problem we might have missed).You can use contacts from Microsoft Outlook as the data source for mail merges in Microsoft Word. IвЂ™m quite puzzled to see nobody else using Libre Office 6 reported that problem before us. It did work multiple times in my own case but I had reports that even the renaming trick failed at times. One workaround IвЂ™ve found is going into the database manager and renaming the freshly imported database to something other than its original name.

On the other hand, Libre Office 5.4.7 works perfectly and doesnвЂ™t disconnect an imported-from-ODS database (using the вЂњExchange databaseвЂќ function) at random. I noticed this behaviour started to appear from version 6.0.0.0 alpha onwards and still persists with latest evolution build (6.2.2 as IвЂ™m writing this), according to my tests.

#Mail merge on mac frustrating manual#

The database is simply not there anymore, whether from the вЂњdata sourcesвЂќ window (Ctrl+Shift+F4) or the database manager (Tools > Options > Libre Office Base), without any manual intervention. or after restarting Writer or any Libre Office application.or while attempting to delete some text.or after inserting a custom field (unrelated to the database), right after closing the custom field dialog.either during adding the fields into an ODT document (you can see the database vanish live right in front of your powerless eyes).The typical scenario is any machine running Libre Office 6 (Windows or Linux, it doesnвЂ™t matter) will lose its connection to a database imported from an ODS file at some point: IвЂ™m adding in my feedback as we currently experience the same issue at the organization I work for.

As a workaround, you can also use the database manager (Tools > Options > Libre Office Base) in order to rename your newly imported database to the same name as the older one (donвЂ™t rename the ODB file, you have to open the database manager and change the display name only). As your ODT will still look for the older database name when referencing its fields if you donвЂ™t do so (hoover your mouse over your fields and the complete field path will pop up). To OP: when re-importing your database with another method (the mailing assistant for instance), you must reinsert all your fields one by one from the newly imported database.