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Summary: How to set up various methods to save an Open Office mail merge document; learn more about mail merge features in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Open Office in this free instructional video.
"Hi, I'm Gary for Expert Village. We see here from our save options that the difference in how we save the merge document file we have the option to choose it as single file or to save it as individual files. And we see here that we have both here and we have all these merge open office document I have a number after them and those are the numbers of the individual letters or records in our data base. And you see if we open one of them we can see that this is the field the data entry of Nathan and we can also see that there's only one letter in that whole document. Each one is an individual letter, we go back into merge document we can also save it as a single document and that will create one file. And all of the letters will be saved as an individual letter or individual pages within that file so here we see that on the top left hand corner. The first file is just a plain merge all open office document it doesn't have any number behind it and that will give us the option to save it as one file with seven letters inside the file."
eHow Article: Parameters for Saving a Mail Merge Document in Open Office