Oops - forgot to mention I'm using version 2.0.4 on a WinXP system. ----- Original Message ----- From: Barbara Duprey To: Open Office Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 6:31 PM Subject: When is a Writer Save NOT a Save?
OK, I'm officially going crazy now. I constructed a document (master and four subdocs), and everything was going great. I typically left the master open with all the components showing their headings, and editable, saving frequently. Sometimes I'd close it, and come back later (like after software installs). When I opened it again, and allowed the links to update, everything would be fine. When the document was in near-final shape (let's call this point A), I made a bunch of organizational changes (inserting subheads, etc., in some of the subdocs) and reset the TOC. Everything was still fine (point B). Hadn't closed the file. Then I added a new section (several pages) and made a few more minor changes. This time, I thought I'd make use of the versioning capability, so I saved the version (point C), and closed the file. Ever since then, it seems that no matter what I do all I can retrieve is the document at point A, but with the TOC of point B. This is also what I get when I open version C. Not only did I lose a lot of work, but changes I make now have NO EFFECT. Well, copying the whole document into a new document with a different name (saved as odt), adding a subhead, closing, and reopening without the link update, the change is still there, and the heading shows and works in the Navigator. But as soon as I open with link update (which is apparently necessary in a master/subdoc to see the whole structure in Navigator), I'm back to the point A/B hybrid. I tried various saves, from the original and the copy, and various combinations of opening from recent files, closing files, closing Writer, opening from disk. Always get A/B. How did I create this situation? How can I get out of it?
