It is totally wrong that you send all these mails to me. So please stop it.
I get long-mails every day from other Open Office Employees and users, but I
have not registered myself into any group, and my OpenOffice works perfectly.
> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:36:59 +0100
> From: ofarr...@iol.ie
> To: users@openoffice.apache.org
> CC: chris_harri...@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Novel writing need to Link/update various documents
>
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:44:20 +0000
> Chris Harris <chris_harri...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi there.
> >
> > Tried sending a blank email, but do not think it has worked as I never
> > received a reply. So I am trying the direct approach.
> >
> > I am trying to write a novel using openoffice, 4.0.0, on a Windows7 x64
> > laptop, saving each chapter as a discrete file.
> >
> > I would like to be able to have an updatable chapter summary at the top of
> > the chapters. I have an individual file with this data, which I would like
> > to be able to update from the chapter summary. ie if I have a briliant
> > idea, I can add it to that chapters summary, which in turn will update the
> > summary file, this amended summary then needs to update all the chapter
> > heading summaries.
> >
> > Next I have a file with character notes/bio's. Again I need to be able to
> > amend this whilst writing. ie, I am writing something about a character,
> > and want to save a particular word or character detail, so click on
> > characters name which then opens up the character file and I can update the
> > file.
> >
> > I suspect that I need to use the hyperlink function in some way, maybe you
> > can give me some advice as to the best way to do this?
> >
> > I could of course use an index card system, but that would inhibit the
> > flow, as it were, especially as copy and paste would be so much more
> > efficient.
> >
> > I have given each chapter a title and number, but in going over what I have
> > already written, I am thinking I want to change chapter1 to chapter 5 and
> > move chapter 4 to chapter1...or at least move things around. Any ideas as
> > to how this could be best done. I am thinking I should simply have used the
> > chapter title as the file name, deciding on the actual chapter order/number
> > when satisfied with the whole book.
> >
> > Has anyone got any experience of using openoffice for novel writing?
> >
> > Appreciate any help you can give me.
> >
> > Thanks C Harris.
> >
> >
> In haste:
> You could combine your separate chapters using the Master Document structure
> of OpenOffice. To relocate an enttire chapter then would simply be a matter
> of moving the line in the Master Document which invokes that chapter.
>
> I've never used Master Documents - I keep my related writings all in the one
> file (file size typically 20 chapters 100K); I currently am editing one file
> (assembly of another author's works, for my own use, not for publication) of
> 3000+ pages, 14 volumes, 1,000,000 words. Slow to load and save on current
> computer (25 seconds) which is vintage 2001 so not the fastest/ I have
> others, but this one is on my working desk.
>
> To keep track of timelines etc I make liberal use of Comments (/Insert
> /Comment). I'm brooding on a modification to this function to allow the one
> user change the colour of comments so that a particular theme would use its
> own background colour.
>
> --
> Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>
>
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