Hi,

Today I was showing a client how to set up a mail merge from a text file.

I set up the main document by dragging and dropping the fields onto the Writer 
document from the data source window. To my surprise the fields were not what 
I had selected. This happened multiple times.

As part of my training technique I have the user perform the same steps and 
watch. Again to my surprise the wrong column was inserted even though I 
watched very carefully what she selected. I know she selected the correct 
column as I then had to alert her that OOo was not working correctly and care 
had to be taken.

I have managed to duplicate this bug with the following data as a text data 
source.

PROPERTYNUMBER|PROPERTYADDRESS|PROPERTYSUBURB|PROPERTYPOSTCODE|PROPERTYCOUNTRY|
PROPERTYTYPE
1/5|Smith Street|Melbourne|3000|Australia|Brick Veneer

It seems if the fields names are quite wide OOo can get confused.

I know you will scratch you head in disbelief but it is true.

The points to assist in reproducing this bug are:

- Set the resolution to 800x600
- Select the column which is half off the screen and drag this into the Writer 
document.
- If you scroll back to show the columns starting from the first column and 
try to do this again it does not reproduce the bug.
- If you click on the first fields contents and then select the half on screen 
PROPERTYCOUNTRY column and drag and drop it, the PROPERTYTYPE is dropped 
instead.

I have included two screen dumps. One showing the column half off the screen 
before attempting to drag and drop and the second when the drag and drop has 
been performed.

The second screen shows the wrong field in the Writer document with the column 
now scrolled to full view and highlighted.

If you first scroll the desired column into full view and then drag and drop 
the correct field is inserted into the Writer document.

Hope this helps

Kelvin
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