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LibreOffice Data to Fields not Working

PostPosted: Nov 22nd, '14, 14:17
by paulcbrennan2001
Trying to create labels for Christmas Cards as I do every year I can't get the 'Data to Fields' button to work. I have tried the same action on my wife's winblows machine using OpenOffice without a problem - works fine. Is this a LibreOffice bug? Has anybody else had the same problem?

Re: LibreOffice Data to Fields not Working

PostPosted: Nov 22nd, '14, 15:44
by isadora
Is that in Calc or in one or more of the other LibreOffice-modules?

Re: LibreOffice Data to Fields not Working

PostPosted: Nov 22nd, '14, 19:25
by paulcbrennan2001
Libre Calc

Re: LibreOffice Data to Fields not Working

PostPosted: Nov 22nd, '14, 20:51
by isadora
Probably have a look at the following document about the use of data-sources in LibreOffice:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ima ... ources.pdf

Re: LibreOffice Data to Fields not Working

PostPosted: Nov 22nd, '14, 21:52
by doktor5000
OT @isadora: I've shortened the link. It seemed to come from a google search results page - there are browser plugins to show direct links there ...
E.g. for Chrome/Chromium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... dfkpobecpg
for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... -link-fix/

Re: LibreOffice Data to Fields not Working

PostPosted: Nov 22nd, '14, 23:18
by isadora
Thanks for that.

Re: LibreOffice Data to Fields not Working

PostPosted: Nov 24th, '14, 23:50
by paulcbrennan2001
Tried using Writer - same result (or non-result!!).

Looks like I will have to use my Wife's winblows machine using OpenOffice!! This is obviously a bug in LibreOffice. My own opinion is that OpenOffice is better than LibreOffice even though they are very alike.

Re: LibreOffice Data to Fields not Working

PostPosted: Nov 25th, '14, 07:49
by isadora
Probably you are better off, asking this in the LibreOffice-forums, like:
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/questions/

Maybe it could be like this one,.......
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/ ... e-failing/
........but as you see i am not sure, you'll be better off, doing your own query at the aforementioned forum.

Re: LibreOffice Data to Fields not Working

PostPosted: Nov 25th, '14, 09:08
by paulcbrennan2001
Probably will.

Thanks anyway.