Re: Mailmerge crash (and I have to send out a mailing tomorrow!!!!)

Hi Norbert,

Apart from the assistance that Frank already has given, the following:

Norbert Zawodsky wrote (26-10-2009 20:15)

> I've been working with OO 3.1.0.6 for quite a long time now. Since this
> problem hit me this evening, I upgraded to 3.1.1.1. But got the same
> crash...

I guess that is a version from a Linux distro?

> As always, I created a .odt document containing form letter fields. (I
> did many many mailings in the past). Printing to paper works. I tried
> that with 2 or 3 recipients. But sending as email crashes.
> If you want to send a form letter as email, you have to use the
> Assistant. (Simply pressing Ctrl-P doesn't work because "as e-mail"
> doesn't exist there. BTW why ???????)

Ctrl-P offers to open the mail merge window from before OpenOffice.org 2.
The e-mail has been built in later, as a Python function, on top of the 
mail merge wizard that was created for OOo 2. If I am correct, it was 
done and is maintained by Caolan McNamara.

> I sucessfully got through all the steps of the form-letter assistant
> dialog. But when I press the "Send" button in the last step, all windows
> disappear and the document-recreation dialog pops up. No error mesage.
> Nothing....

Pls follow Franks advice wrt reproducing the bug. That is really helpful 
in repairing the problem.
You may also try the Vanilla OpenOffice.org on Linux. Maybe that does 
make a difference.

Regards,
Cor
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