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________________________________ From: Ryan Jendoubi <ryan.jendo...@gmail.com> To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, April 4, 2011 2:44:13 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] INCLUDETEXT Hi Joe, On 28/03/11 19:39, Joe Nierenberg wrote: > I would like to include text from a closed file into the open file. However, >rather than have all of the text there, reproduced in the open file, I want >only >the field name. (The reason is that it is conditional text, that might not >always be included.) According to my searches, there is no LO Writer >equivalent >to MS Word's INCLUDETEXT field; there is only the menu command to insert a >file, >which gives the entire text. Ideas? I /might/ have found an answer for this. The answer came from finding out what DDE actually stands for. From the Writer help: "DDE DDE stands for "Dynamic Data Exchange," which is a predecessor of OLE, "Object Linking and Embedding". With DDE, objects are linked through file reference, but not embedded. You can create a DDE link using the following procedure: Select cells from a Calc spreadsheet, copy them into the clipboard and switch to another spreadsheet and select the *Edit - Paste Special* dialogue box. Select *the Link* option to insert the contents as a DDE link. When activating a link, the inserted cell area will be read from its original file." I did this, copying a footnote field from one document and paste-special-ing it into another (Ctrl-Shift-v). While editing, the pasted field seems to contain only the text "DDE field" but a print preview shows that it contains the proper value. In order to get the fields to update you have to go Tools > Update > Links rather than Tools > Update > Fields, so F9 doesn't do it (under the default config). Also, links sometimes appear to become disconnected (right-click > Fields...: 'Status' column for link no longer says 'Automatic'). I haven't been able to work out when / why exactly this happens. I haven't tried this with conditional fields. I would be very interested to know if this solves your problem. Cheers, -r -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
