Re: Possibility of personalizing OpenOffice documents automatically?

[Lee Braiden <jel@tundra.ath.cx>]

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 08:15, herve@elma.fr wrote:
> I would like to know if somebody know a way ... (batch, tool etc.) to take
> a classical OpenOffice text document and a small database and then make a
> personalisation of the document in an automatic way ...
>
> The idea is to permit simple users of a system to produce easily same
> document from their database without using OpenOffice directly and not
> offer them the ability to modify the document ...

If you make a template for each user's blank document, then replace the 
original blank document with that, you should be off to a good start.  A 
macro to apply that template to the current document could then be combined 
with a script to load and save files, to do the conversion.  Or, you might 
even get away with just using the File menu's (IIRC) batch conversion 
options, which are normally used to convert into another file format.


-- 
Lee.

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