[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113753] New: MailMerge should support reading data from CSV, and it should be easily discoverable how to do it

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113753

            Bug ID: 113753
           Summary: MailMerge should support reading data from CSV, and it
                    should be easily discoverable how to do it
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.1 all versions
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: LibreOffice
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: libreoffice at misc.lka.org.lu

Mail Merge doesn't seem to have an obvious way of using a CSV file as a data
source.

What I tried:

File->Wizards->AddressDataSource
Other external data source
Settings

There it only propose various database types (MySql, dBase), applications with
address books (Thunderbird), etc. but no CSV

However, there is "text".
When I chose that, I can navigate to the directory where I have my CSV file
stored, but no matter whether I call them something.csv or something.txt they
are not shown.

Maybe it's possible, but for sure it's not "discoverable".

In the end I got my mailmerge working by loading it into a mysql database, but
that's not how it's supposed to be, and not how to win over new users (indeed,
I was showing a friend how to do mailmerge, and he was shaking his head at the
complexity involved... :-( )

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