Michael Adams wrote:
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 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
...
Which doesn't, if I recall, work for Draw. A strictly limited set of
fields is accessible, and nothing from a database. I've never seen a
reason for the limitation.
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Mike Scott Harlow Essex England.(mike -a-t- [deletethis]
scottsonline.org.uk)
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