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Microsoft word or Open office

Post by fishdrzig » Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:37 am

Is it still true that OD does not work with Open office when using letter merge? I need to reinstall Microsoft Word if Open office will not work. Thought I would ask first. Thanks
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Re: Microsoft word or Open office

Post by jordansparks » Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:28 pm

They both work if doing a letter merge to multiple patients. Only Word works if doing the merge for a single patient.
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Re: Microsoft word or Open office

Post by packets » Wed Feb 15, 2012 2:47 am

jordansparks wrote:They both work if doing a letter merge to multiple patients. Only Word works if doing the merge for a single patient.
Just curious, why is this the case? Libre Office would be such a great partnered solution with OD...
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Re: Microsoft word or Open office

Post by jordansparks » Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:03 pm

Word has deep support for scripting with VB. OOo does not. Feel free to find me the documentation for producing a single merged letter automatically with OOo. I've never been able to locate such documentation, and I suspect that it's not possible.
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