[LinuxUsers] OpenOffice.Org import from XLS,ods etc....

[Chris Penn]

I have a spreadsheet, 37 columns, each row represents a student.  I would
like to print a separate document for each student, each column per student,
to a a odf or word document using open office on Linux.  I have found it
easier to mathematica, but i am looking for a proper way to do this using
just the spreadsheet and openoffice.

Chris...

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Randall Whitman <909linux at whizman.com>wrote:

> > I have a spreadsheet of student applications.  Each row represents a
> > students info, Name,Email,Grades etc.  I want to export the data from
> > the spreadsheet to a openoffice doc, similar to exporting address from
> > a mailing list spreadsheet.
> ...
> > Also, I am really looking for a way to import xls or ods data into a
> > odf (openoffice word doc).  I know this can be down in M$ Office,
> > i.e., importing address list from spreadsheet into a word documents.
>
> I'm still trying to understand whether youre trying to...
> * copy and paste a chart from a spreadsheet to one word-processing
> document; or
> * merge each row of the spreadsheet into separate word-processing
> documents.
>
> If the latter, the key term is "merge" or "mail-merge".
> /Randall
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