Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever
by ForHackernews on Thursday January 29, 2015 @12:10PM
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Huh. This is an interesting example of a feature that's very important to some people, and utterly irrelevant to others. I had never even heard of "mail merge" in the context of word processing software, only mass-emailers, and it would never have occurred to me that anyone was using desktop word processing software to run their paper-mailing campaigns.
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Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever
by chops on Thursday January 29, 2015 @12:19PM
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It's pretty common in the small business world, or even printing envelopes/labels for christmas cards, wedding invitations, etc. Most recently, I'm using it for rapid prototyping of cards for a board game I'm making, but I do also use it for small direct mailing campaigns (under 200 destinations) for my business.
Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever
by scholia on Friday January 30, 2015 @02:10PM
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Some businesses use Microsoft Office for business processes that go far beyond Mail-Merge, but are essentially unknown to people who don't work for large corporations. Have a look at the half-dozen Microsoft Office programs you've never used, and that many people have not even heard of.
This is one reason why it took Munich a whole decade to switch most (but not all) users from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice, and they probably lost a ton of money on the switch (ie if you honestly counted lost productivity, which I'd bet is still being lost).
I'd also guess that a German city's use of Microsoft Office is probably pretty trivial compared to an American Fortune 50 corporation.
If someone wants to do a PhD on this, I'd love to read it ;-)
Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever
by epascarello on Thursday January 29, 2015 @12:38PM
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Think snail mail, not email.