Step 4: Create salutation
The salutation is the initial greeting,for example, Dear Mr Jones.In step 4, select the salutation that will appear in the letter.
You can use a different greeting for men and women.To do this, Writer must have some way of knowing whether a person is male or female. In our spreadsheet we had a column called Gender.In the section Address list field indicating a female recipient, set the field name to Gender and the field value to F.The male salutation is then printed for all men and the female salutation for all women.
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You do not need to tell OOo who is a male, because it assumes that all non-female records are males.
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If you do not select Insert Personalized Salutation, you can use a more general salutation without referring to the recipient directly, such as “To whom it may concernâ€.
As in step 3, step 4 of the wizard has a preview pane at the bottom. You should check more than one record to ensure that other records look the way you expect.
