From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Epiphany/1.1.12 Description of problem: When you re-open a merged document the datasource sometimes dissappears. Often the the only way to do the merge is to recreate the datasource under a new name. This happens even when you can see the field in the document Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create merge document 2. Save 3. Re-open Actual Results: Sometimes works Expected Results: Should work every time Additional info:
Is this still the case with a recent openoffice.org e.g. 1.1.3 as in FC3-updates
The mail merge is going to be re-worked in 2.0 to alleviate this sort of problem: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=20057