Re: [Evolution] Re: contacts and mailmerge

[Carl Parrish <cparrish carlparrish com>]

Not Zed wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 19:06 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
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> > Cc:ing evolution ximian com because I don't know all the answers...
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 18:23, Joep Blom wrote:
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> >
> > > 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.
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In open office you set evolution as a data source then use the data 
source you create for mail merge. This is NOT a evolution question 
though its an open office question (so email me off list if you need 
more details). I've not tried it with any other kind of word proscessor. 
(anyone have any idea why the Catlog data doesn't get imported along 
with the rest) a related question, is there any easy way to export 
Evolution data to a ldap server?

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