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title="UNCONFIRMED - MailMerge should support reading data from CSV, and it should be easily discoverable how to do it"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113753">113753</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>MailMerge should support reading data from CSV, and it should be easily discoverable how to do it
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>5.1 all versions
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>libreoffice@misc.lka.org.lu
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<pre>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... :-( )</pre>
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