While browsing around the OOo forums I encountered a question about the Placeholder field, a type of field I had never really noticed. It seems fairly straight forward but it was not easy to find any information about it unless one went: Insert>Fields>Others>Functions>Placeholder> and then clicks on the Help button.
I have noticed this a couple of other times; that is, one often cannot (easily?) find information in the general help listings by using keywords but one can get more and more useful information from the specific help button. I wonder if a) the Working with Fields chapter should perhaps have a bit about Placeholders, and b) should there be some general note in the Guide about the specificity of the help function? This assumes that there is not such a note and I just missed it. If we wanted to add something to the Guide chapter about the Placeholders field I would suggest a straight cut and paste from the help text which reads: Placeholder Inserts a placeholder field in the document, for example, for graphics. When you click a placeholder field in the document, you are prompted to insert the item that is missing. It would be nice to know what the box labelled Feference does on that screen. My guess is that it is just an aide mémoire but I am not sure. It may have some functionality that is not apparent. ----- John Kane Kingston ON Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613)888-2399 -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be
