[libreoffice-users] Writer, forms, and content controls
I would like to use LibreOffice Writer to create forms that would have the following features: 1. Some input fields where things like names can be entered; 2. Some fields where the entered information (like names) will be automatically reproduced, i.e., so no need to enter more than once; 3. Some drop-down boxes, where things like appropriate pronouns can be selected; 4. Some fields where the selected options (like pronouns) will be automatically reproduced; and 5. Some areas with optional text choices, allowing the user to select one set or another. There would be no external database. I've looked at the online form content control material in the documentation, but I can't tame it to do what I want. Can someone shed some light on how to do this, or where I could look for answers? TIA. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Find Text and related arrows do not work
[LO 3.4.3, build 302, under WinXP SP3] Would someone with LO 3.4.3 and Windows please try to reproduce the following? 1. The downloaded build includes a button on the top toolbar with the text Find Text. It appears to have no functionality. Not only does it do nothing on its own, but it also does nothing even after entering text with the Find Replace dialog (either through the menu or by adding the FR icon). 2. The problem could be even worse than non-functionality. It appears that the toolbar button is stuck on one word and will not allow it to be changed. (I assume this means that, at one point, it allowed a value to be entered) Even when a user enters a different value in the FR dialog, if the user then clicks either the Find Text button or one of the two arrows next to it, the program looks for the embedded/stuck word and not the one it should be looking for. 3. The problem described in the previous paragraph means that, in a multi-page document, when one clicks Find All in the Find a Replace dialog box, there is no way to move to the next occurrence, because the arrows are looking for a different value. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] INCLUDETEXT
I would like to include text from a closed file into the open file. However, rather than have all of the text there, reproduced in the open file, I want only the field name. (The reason is that it is conditional text, that might not always be included.) According to my searches, there is no LO Writer equivalent to MS Word's INCLUDETEXT field; there is only the menu command to insert a file, which gives the entire text. Ideas? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Field of increasing ordinal numbers?
It does not seem like the field options include a way to add FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, etc., as fields that will auto-update if they're moved around. The available fields all seem to be cardinal numbers, with no ordinal number options. Is that correct? Is there a way with LO to do what I'm trying to accomplish? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] SUM icon in Calc 3.3.1
There does not appear to be a SUM icon in Calc ver. 3.3.1 under Windows XP. It's noted in the Help file; it's a basic function; but I cannot find it anywhere, either in the menu trees or on the standard toolbar or on the customization that is possible to the toolbars. It should be a large blue upper case sigma. (It's the icon I'm concerned about, not the SUM function in the formula field.) Is it there and I'm just not seeing it?? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Two coordinated sets of sequential numbers
Hello. I regularly need to create documents that have numbering schemes like this: Request 1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Response 1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Request 2. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Response 2. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Etc. Occasionally, the paragraphs will have subparagraphs (a, b, c, etc.). I have tried various approaches, but cannot find a way to create numbered paragraph styles in LO to meet this need. Can anyone suggest ways to do this? Thank you. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
