It seems everyone is too scared to reply. I hardly use Writer but I created a master document and subdocuments using 1.1.14 about 19 months ago without a problem.
The problems may be new. One thing I can tell you is that there is a specific Help document - described as "Ch13 - Working with Master Documents" on this page: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html Barbara Duprey wrote: > > I could add a few more chapters to the book I wrote in my earlier message, > but at the moment I'm tired of writing (and rewriting, and...). > > The response to my original question appears to be "... when you appear to > be editing a subdocument from within the context of a master document." > From > the symptoms I've seen, the only way for your edits to survive this > process > unscathed is for you to avoid doing a Save when the title bar is showing > the > subdocument without displaying the actual file name (with the .odt > extension). Instead, do a Save As that identifies the subdocument file > itself. Otherwise, the changes seem to vanish into limbo. After following > the other discussions here about not cleaning out temp files while a > document is open for editing, I tried searching my whole hard disk for > files > containing some identifiable text, but had no luck at all. > > In my opinion, this is a VERYdangerous situation. It certainly caused me a > lot of grief and rework, and I'd hate to see this happen to anybody else. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barbara Duprey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Open Office" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 7:11 PM > Subject: [users] Fw: When is a Writer Save NOT a Save? > > > 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? > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Fw%3A-When-is-a-Writer-Save-NOT-a-Save--tf3043548.html#a8471906 Sent from the openoffice - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
