On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 14:30 +0100, Urska Colner wrote: > hi andrew. > > Andrew Brown wrote: > > Urska Colner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:4215A0EC.20004 > > @agenda.si: > > > > > >>anyone knows of a macro that would let me apply an > >>incremented document number to a newly opened > >>document? > > > > > > Not as such. I can let you have a macro which saves letters and things with > > a filename based on the day's date. But that's not quite what you want. It > > does, however, show you how to construct filenames for saving under. > great. if you could send it to my email off-list, > that would be nice. i'll play around with it and > hopefully think of something.
Try the numbering method used in http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/User/template/raffle_ticket.stw (watch for folding) You might be able to adapt it in a macro that updates your default template. > > > >>if not, I could use some advice: what is the best > >>way to do that? should the document number depend > >>on the number of documents, currently stored in a > >>directory or would it be better to have the number > >>depend on a template. that means that the number > >>would increment when a new empty document was > >>opened from *the same* template. > >> > > > > Countig th enumber of files in a directory is certainly wrong, for the > > reasons you suggest. > thought so. :( > > > For incrementing things, could you store the > > incremented number in one of the document properties fields of the template > > you're using (it would be a string, of course, and you'd have to convert it > > to increment it). But it could be a string of essentially arbitrary length, > > which you may need, as you come up to your millionth document. > great idea. i thought it might be something along > these lines, but didn't think of this one. > > > > NOte: I haven't tested this at all. Just trying to be helpful. > > > no problem. suggestions are what i was looking for > in the first place. i'll let you know if i come up > with something useful. > > urska > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Documentation Co-Lead PLEASE - keep list traffic on the list. Email sent directly to me may be ignored utterly. "Dinna meddle wi' things ye ken nuthin' aboot!" J.Herriot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
