mailmerge salutations

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Hello,

Have no problem with male/female choice of DB fields:

Now the custom salutations:

also work if the fields were associated (Match fields). For this it is best to refer to the LO documentation here -> LibreOffice Writer Guide. Look at Chapter 14 - Mail Merge. There is a section on the address block, matching fields and creating the salutation. This will give you a better idea of what is going on.

Edit 2020-12-16:

I hope this will help. It, in my opinion, is not the easiest to work with.

First on the Create Salutation page, I selected a field name (used ID) and left value blank. Now all records will use Male personalized salutation. I then assigned the fields using `Match Fields' button to get to dialog.

Now I select New button for Male salutation. First element used was <text> and in Customize salutation entered Dear:

Next element inserted was for <last name="">:

Now selecting OK gets back to:

and I can scroll through the salutations. They would all be the same as the value for Female will never exist.

Hope that helps.