Solveig Haugland publishes a tutorial on mail merge in OpenOffice 2.0 for SearchOpenSource.com.

Mail merge is often discussed, but less frequently understood. Solveig explains, “A mail merge is writing one document, and then creating a version of it for every record in a database. So, you write your holiday letter once and easily create one copy of that document for everyone in your address book database. Or you write one “please-pay-us-now” letter and send it to everyone in your customers database for whom the Paid field is No. So, you need to do two things: create the document and point the document at the database. The mail merge wizard does both.”

Solveig’s tutorial covers the details in glorious depth, so head over there and start learning.

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