On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 12:01 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 08:18 -0700, Scott Rhoades wrote:
> >> My latest irritation has been converting a master doc to a single doc.
> >> It pulls the sub docs in as links instead of really making it a single
> >> doc. But there's now an issue and it looks like my concerns are being
> >> addressed.
> >>
> > 
> > Yes, subdocs are linked in. Normally one would simply use Edit > Links
> > and break all the links. This can be done easily. Select all the links
> > and press Break.
> 
> <Jean thumps head> That never occurred to me! Thank you! I just 
> tried it, and it worked as expected.
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't save the result as a .ODT file; OOo only 
> allows me to save it as a master doc (.ODM) file. However, I 
> discovered that I could change the file extension to .ODT after 
> saving as .ODM, so that's not a real problem. (My reason for 
> wanting to have it as .ODT is that a different extension is 
> likely to confuse some other people.)

Export it. File > Export and select .odt from the list. Then break the
links.


> 
> I will make a note about this "break links" technique in the 
> master docs chapter. Thanks again!
> 
> Now to check whether breaking the links fixes the randomly-wrong 
> cross-references problem...
> 

It may or may not. I have found that generating an index from individual
indices in sub-chapters requires you to cut/paste a lot. Can be
annoying. 
-- 
G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
OpenOffice.org

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