On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:54:06 +1000 Came this utterance formulated by bob to my mailbox:
> Twenty years ago the designers of previous newspaper layout systems > developed a word processor called Describe. They included a simple > macro that was great for templates. > > The macro scanned your document for markers, any word betweem "<<" and > ">>" it then open a dialogue with each unique marker-word next to a > text field. Once you clicked the dialogue's o.k. it filled the > document with the substitute values. Simple, effective, productive :) > > I can't see that OpenOffice has a similar item yet. > I would love if it could have two versions - one that just did a > simple once-off text replacement, and a second that maintained the > unique tags as AutoText fields that could be used for later universal > updates of the document as needed. I think you want to read up on databases and fields. As a simple example read up on how mail merge uses these. http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/userguide3/0211WG3-UsingMailMerge.pdf http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/userguide3/0214WG3-WorkingWithFields.pdf There is a lot more information in the writer guide. http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/userguide3/0200WG3-WriterGuide.pdf If you are still using OO.o 2.x then the guides for it still exist. http://documentation.openoffice.org/ -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
