Mail Merge and text rotated 90 degrees

[philip098123]

I have a table in a document which is holding text which is rotated. With the text I have some mail merge fields. For the case in which the text is rotated 90, there is a dysfunction in the way mail merge treats the fields. My problem is three fold. First during the print process, the ordering of the rotated merge fields change. E.g. <First Name><Last Name> on the original becomes <Last Name><First Name> on the merged document. (bug? maybe) The obvious easy work around fails. (2) Swaping the fields to acquire a final result of <First Name><Last Name> works except that the spacing between the field messes up. E.g. <Last Name><spc><First Name> becomes <spc><First Name><Last Name>. Lastly, (3) I can not for the life of me get a space after the <Last Name> field while the text is rotated. I ended up removing the rotation of the text, made my edits, then rotated the text back to 90 along with the spaces, this ends up working in most cases, but still one of twelve of my pages were messed up...

There is no such problem with the text rotated 270 degrees.

Is there a strategy for doing this that I'm missing? Any advice?

[acknak]

I don't think this is possible in any reasonable way. Writer is severely limited (by design and by bugs) in using rotated text; you can get good rotation with graphic text, but graphic text does not support fields.

Is it possible for you to orient your document so that your merge fields are unrotated, while all the static text is in rotated graphics?

If you want any specific suggestions, I think we would need to see a sample document (or diagram) showing exactly what you're trying to do. You can use the "Upload Attachment" link (below the message entry area after you click "POST REPLY"). [Forum] How to attach a document here