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How do I hide a paragraph in a form letter, which if the user enters text in an Input field the text is displayed, if they don't enter anything the paragraph of text is hidden?

22/08/05

4609

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We have found sometimes users have one piece of variable information that needs to appear in a form letter in multiple places as well as the normal Input fields. We felt where information appears multiple times, it should still only be typed once. We show here how this is done.

22/08/05

4707

901

In this example we show how to insert Input fields which allows the user to be prompted for information to enter into the form letter.

22/08/05

2304

900

Is this example we create a form letter which displays a different persons name and position based on a value in the data source.

22/08/05

3586

899

We spent considerable time trying to create a form letter where in the name for the recipient there were two fields, title and surname. The problem we had to get around was sometimes the title was empty so we did not want a leading space.

22/08/05

3864

866

When I drag and drop the field in the data source to the Writer document the wrong field is inserted.

22/08/05

242

864

I have a mail merge document but I have long since deleted the data source.  How can I determine the data source and field names so I can recreate a data source.?

22/08/05

109

499

How do I insert a date in Writer in another date format than the default?

09/01/07

741

486

How do I set the page number in the header or footer to start at the page that I want?

22/08/05

1123

422

How do I align text in a header and footer so that the page number is at the right?

22/08/05

462

401

Update on issue 170 where hidden paragraphs in mail merge do not work with Writer.

22/08/05

521

274

How do I produce an members address book using the data in a data source?  If I use Form letter is produces a new document for each page and thus the page number is always one.

22/08/05

1546

256

I would like to create a document which contains the text but then gets particular values such as name, address etc from a database. How do I do this?

22/08/05

1063

214

I want to start page number from the fourth page in a document. How do I do this?

22/08/05

539

182

I have a preprinted form and I want to be able to merge my data to print on the form. Any suggestions as to how I can accurately align the fields to the page.

22/08/05

226

178

How do I hide fields in a mail merge if the fields are blank?

22/08/05

346

170

Using Hidden Paragraphs in mail merge does not work.

22/08/05

112




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