Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Jonathan Kaye wrote:
Hi,
I've received a lengthy article which was written in MSWord
(unfortunately).
Using OO2.0 I can open the document and most of the formatting is ok.
The
problem is that example numbers along with their targets and
cross-referencing has not come through the conversion too well. The
example
numbers and their cross-references all come out as "0" (zero) which
is not
too helpful. These were done using the variable field - Type = Number
Range, Selection = "(" Format = Arabic (123) Name is greyed out and
Value =
(+1
Changing the value has no effect.
I need to replace all these faulty Number Ranges with correct ones but I
can't see how to do this with Find/Replace. There are a few hundred
of them
so I'd hate to do this by hand. I can't see how to redefine the existing
Number Range so I guess I'm stuck.
It's probably not relevant but I'm running Debian Etch 2.6.8.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Jonathan
Hi Jonathan,
First question.... How quickly do you need these?
I have written macros that looks at fields, references, and related
items. It is possible that I can write a macro that will correct the
issues that you have. You did say that there are hundreds. If you send
me a copy of the file, I can see if I might be able to write a macro
to fixup the document.
As a follow up, the solution is that the MS Word document uses
"setexpression" text fields with the master field having the name "(",
which is NOT supported by OOo. I wrote a macro that
* obtains this text master field
* Create a new master field with a valid name.
* enumerates the children fields
* For each child field
*** Create a new child field with identical values but reference the new
master field.
*** Insert the new field in the same spot as the bad field
*** Remove the bad field.
This has been accepted as a valid bug in OOo, that "(" is not supported.
It is probably low priority and may not be fixed, but I am just
guessing. My macro fixes the problem...
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Andrew Pitonyak
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