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------- Additional comments from ske...@openoffice.org Fri Dec 11 01:57:15 +0000 2009 ------- This is not an enhancement. It's a defect that when breaking a document up into sub-documents with a master document, the functionality of cross-references is severely limited. I have an openoffice book with 20 subdocuments. When, from inside one of the subdocuments, I try to insert a reference to a heading in another subdocument, only the headings for the current subdocument show up! When the document was flat all the references for the document showed up in the insert other fields dialog. (When the document was flat, it took 6 minutes to do an autosave, which is why I broke up the document.) ALL of the references for the main document should show up in the dialog for inserting cross-references. There is a hack shown at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Cross-referencing_between_subdocuments which is not acceptable. I'm desperate, so I have to use the workaround, but if someone is coming from FrameMaker or Microsoft, I don't think you have to go through all that work. I'm stuck, because saves and autosaves for my flat document take over five minutes! Otherwise, I wouldn't be using sub-documents for the following reasons: First of all, it's a work-around for the lack of functionality that's available for a flat document and within a sub-document. Second, it's tedious and error-prone, having to keep a separate document where you manually keep track of the references that you create. That tedium should be done by OpenOffice, not the user. Thirdly, the same user interface should be available whether a reference is being made within a sub-document or across sub-documents in a book. Fourth, the inter-document cross-references aren't expanded within a sub-document, and changed text doesn't show up in the master document. This means we can't publish a version of a document with change bars and all the references resolved. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
