Re: short minute of meeting at guadec

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 14:31, Alan Horkan wrote:
> #
> > printing. (Pull data from gnome-gb or gumeric and use it replace defined
> > text in an abiword document.
> 
> A lot of Abiword user would really love to be able to do a mail merge.
> 
> In my personal experience i use speadsheets for simple sorting, and
> search and replace and i suspect this is what most people unfamiliar with
> scripting languages do.
> I also use a speadsheet as a simple flatform database, sometimes using
> multiple (linked) sheets instead of seperate database tables.  I'll bet
> this has been discussed by the Gnumeric people before, so if there is not
> already one i think i should volunteer to write a tutorial to users
> suggesting how to do this and why they probably dont really need a real/ms
> proprietary database.
> 
yes, of course it's possible, but at the end, you've got a lot of
spreadsheets users that combine spreadsheets and databases, so we need
to support that also.

cheers
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> - <rodrigo ximian com>
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