[geeks] open office writer and database merge

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

Francois Dion wrote:
> I have a single page document which is laid out with database fields,
> kind of like a report if you will. I can display stuff like I want on
> the page, and move to next record etc. The only thing I've never
> figured out is how do you have a "Page bleh of blah". I've inserted
> the fields, but once I hit print, it asks if it is a merge, to which I
> say yes, and then it prints, but on all the pages it prints page 1 of
> 1.
> 
> I'm sure there's a way. If I find a solution to this, I'd like to add
> a letter to each page (ie, page 1 = A, page 2 = B etc).
> 
> Open to any suggestions.
> 
Are you using a database or are you using a flat file as your datasource?

--Patrick