Hi again Found the workaround ...
1. Split the document into two - name the top part common_core.ott and the bottom part tail_xyz.ott
2. Ensure one blank line at the beginning of tail_???.ott before a manual page-break which begins the tail section. The blank line has to fit on the end of common_core.ott without throwing a page or you will get a blank page between the two sections.
3. At the beginning of the blank line at the top of the tail_???.ott Insert | Section | [x] Link and browse for common_core.ott
4. Save as original_filename.ott because it has exactly the same content except that the common core is now linked from a separate file common_core.ott in which changes get reflected in all documents which link to it.
5. That should leave tail_xyz.ott lying around to edit and provide the differences then get saved as tail_abc.ott before repeating step 3 and then saving as the new "abc" version with the common core.
Thanks OOo team for a fabulous product :) Mike On 27/04/2010 5:20pm, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
Hi I have built a nice document template with varying page styles and I'm happy with it. Now I need to make it serve different purposes by way of chopping off the original end then replace it from a choice of different ends. This is what I'd like to do ... 1. Double-click the template to produce an untitled document 2. Adjust File | Properties | Custom Properties to name the particular file to include as a different end 3. Refresh the Table of Contents ... and if it isn't expecting too much, I'd like the included bookmarks, cross-references and special fields to be coherently populated across the inclusion boundary. I can understand this is a big ask - probably impossble. I just don't want multiple copies of the main document lying around to maintain for future changes. Any hints or workaround advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Mike
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