Something lilke mail merge function in Draw/Impress?

I use Draw (could also be done in Impress) to create very similar pages. I want this to be done based on a template page and a list strings processed by a macro ore something like that. I tried to create a macro myself using AI but I failed. Maybe there is some sort of mail merge function in Draw or Impress to solve this?

Here is what I have:

  • A draw file with one page only.
  • The page contains very few elements, one of them is a text element called “Template1”.
  • Now I want to take my list of strings (could be a multi line input field or from another file) and create a new page for each entry. On this new page the content of the text element “Template1” should be replaced with the text from the file.

How would you solve this?

Copy the drawing contents to a single page Writer document and do the mail merge there.

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I miss expecially positioning of elements there. This part would be much easier in Draw. :frowning:

But I will install LibreOffice Base and give it a try.

you can also comment in 53548 – Allow "Other" fields / DocInformation / custom editable fields in Draw/Impress (as in Writer)

in a similar idea with images, you have a example → Créer des cadres pour les images ou les aligner ou faire les deux et plus en même temps - #11 by fpy

instead of reading images from a directory, you can read your strings from a file → Input# Statement