Re: [Evolution] Re: contacts and mailmerge

[Des Dougan <des DouganConsulting com>]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 16:06, 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")

Yes, it does work with OpenOffice.org. I use my Evo contacts to populate
client invoices with the address information.

Create a new Data Source of type Address Book - Evo is one of the
supported address book types. Works like a charm.


Des
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