Form documents merge processing question

[Johnny Sprockets]

Using OpenOffice 3.4 on Windows 7 computer.

I have written a base contract form that I wish to populate with replaceable fields, then merge with list document containing various units of information keyed to those same fields. This is not an address list so the Mail Merge Wizard is not appropriate.

I have been using OpenOffice for a couple of years but did lots of form document merging when I used WordPerfect.

I have not been able to locate the correct information about doing this in either the program help, forum archives or the documentation. I believe I am not using the correct keywords describing the process from OpenOffice's perspective.

Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks for the help.

[RoryOF]

This article, in particular the file linked off it in the section "A real-world use case for variables", might be useful. It may also tell you more than you need to know
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux- ... penoffice/