[Gllug] Mailing package

[Rich Walker]

John G Walker <johngwalker at tiscali.co.uk> writes:

>
>
> Thanks for the prompt reply, but it's easier to keep using  Windows
> than do that! Probably a good method for a one-off solution, but I need
> something that can be run over and over, with minimal effort.
>
> Also required, I think, is the ability to import an access-style
> database and, since there's the possibility that I'm going to have to
> hand database over to someone else, the ability to export to a .csv
> file or similar.

That's the spreadsheet part of it.

Openoffice can be told "use X as a database" for a wide range of X.

Then you create a template label-generating query using the forms stuff.



>
> What I didn't say is that I have more than one of these databases. I
> run mailings for a couple of voluntary organisations that I belong to -
> who are now the sole users of my old Windows 98 machine - and I ought
> to bring them up to date with the twenty-first century,

Right...

cheers, Rich.

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