
Chapter 3: Managing Text Documents With Writer
Form Letters, Business Cards and Labels
Write form letters, design business cards and produce labels all from data obtained from―
a data source or that is sequentially numbered.
Creating Form Letters
To aid in creating form letters, the following section first gives some brief instructions and
then detailed instructions.
Brief Instructions (For Quick Results)
1. Register an address data source in OpenOffice.org, if not done previously.
Instructions may be found with the search term “address book” in Help.
2. File > Wizards > Letter to open the dialogue.
3. Setup the template.
4. Select the addresses for the form letter, or enter them manually.
Click Create. Writer can now create the form letter.
Fixed and Variable Fields
Fixed fields are fields which are filled out only once, i.e., when the field is inserted into the
document. For example, if writing an invoice based on an invoice template, use a fixed date.
By doing so when setting up the invoice document, the field position will contain the current
date and will not change later on. That is, the date of the invoice is determined only once.
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