help for label merge is (apparently) out of date

[Matt Warnock]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

Help for label merge, under topic "labels;from databases" says to:
create the new label page, then choose View->Data Sources,
but no such menu item exists.
I am at a loss as to how to create labels from a CSV file in Office.
Ubuntu 9.04, Office 3.0.1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic x86_64

[Matt Warnock (mwarnock)]

Turns out I had not done the steps to declare a proper data source, though I thought I had. That process was obscured by the fact that Ubuntu did not by default install Base, and merge only succeeded for me AFTER I had installed it. I assume it is needed for the data source declaration step.

I still feel this is a user interface misfeature-- to have the View->Data Sources menu completely missing (rather than greyed out, for example) is needlessly confusing. I have been an Office user for years, though I haven't used the merge feature in a couple of years or more.

Help should also be more instructive on the overview of the steps needed:
1) Prepare the data, in a database or spreadsheet (or whatever the other options may be)
2) Declare the data source (tell Openoffice how to access the data list)a
3) Create the template document (mail or labels), and place the merge fields in the template
4) merge the data into the merge fields, then print or save the merged document

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Do you still have this issue with the new version in the ppa at https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive/ppa ?

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

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There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

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