[wellylug] problem registering an Open Office 'address data source'

[Donald Rogers]

Tim Frost wrote:
> Colin,
>
> On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 14:36 +1300, C& J Lewis wrote:
>   
>> I am using OOo3.0 under Ubuntu 9.04 and am needing to register a calc 
>> spreadsheet as a mail merge datasource.  The documentation I have says 
>> to do this using File > Wizard > Address Data Source, however I do not 
>> have an 'Address Data Source' item in the Wizard menu.  Where do I go to 
>> get this menu item, or does anybody know of an alternative way of 
>> setting up a mail merge?
>>     
>
> Have you installed the FULL OOo suite?  Some OOo components were not
> included on the Ubuntu 9.04 CD because of space constraints.  I am not
> sure which package provides the functionality, but the option is present
> in the menus for OOo writer on my system, and I have installed the main
> meta-package, openoffice.org, which will pull in the packages that were
> omitted from the CD.
>
>
> Tim
>   
Maybe it's the package openoffice.org-emailmerge. I have that package 
installed (and many other OOo packages, including the one mentioned by 
Tim) and the "Address Data Source" menu item is present.

Donald