Re: [Evolution] Re: contacts and mailmerge

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 19:06 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:

> Cc:ing evolution ximian com because I don't know all the answers...
>
> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 18:23, Joep Blom wrote:
> > Sir,
> > I have now worked with evolution 1.4 for several weeks and thanks to
> > your answers I start liking it more and more. It is one of the best
> > programs I have encountered with respect to userfriendliness and ease of
> > use. Of course you also wants more.  I therafore wonder if there is a
> > possibility to use the contacts in the mailmerge facilities of for
> > example OpenOffice Word (or it's Sun's version) of
>
> I'm not sure what mailmerge is, I'm not overly familiar with OpenOffice
> and the like beyond the simple stuff like writing simple text documents
> (I'm not much of a "power user")

Jeff! Mate!  Mailmerge is as old as the hills, even my C=64 word
processors did it.  Its where you put custom fields into a form letter
based on a database, thus generating 'n' targetted letters.

Anyway this is a question for open office people.  oo might do it, i
doubt staroffice would talk directly to evo.