I forgot to say:
I'm using Openoffice 2.4.1 in spanish.
My OS is Windows XP.
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Ing. Ely Schoenfeld Phone:+52 55 5682 9176
On Wed, August 20, 2008 10:15 am, Ely Schoenfeld wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I've found some people asking about how to join/combine documents, but my
> case is the opposite. I haven't been able to find any information about
> this.
>
> I have my Thesis work in only one document. The university's library is
> asking me to give them an electronic version with each chapter in a
> different file. (Both odt and pdf format)
>
> I tried just to delete the text before/after each chapter, but the
> openoffice crashes (sometimes in the first step, others in the second
> one). If I persist, I finally get it.
>
> The problems I have found with this approach are:
>
> a) Have the problems with formating because the document has different
> "page formats" all along. It has to be fixed manually each time.
>
> b) Have to modify the first paragraph format and set the correct page
> number ("Flujo de texto" tab), and the correct chapter number
> ("Numeración" tab). It sometimes "just" changes the space before that
> chapter, so the pages wont brake exactly the same as the original document
> does.
>
> c) I discovered the footnote it's getting the wrong chapter data, so I
> have to change it to fixed text.
>
>
> The worst of all is that:
> d) I discovered the references between different chapters disappear.
>
> It will be a LOOOT of work to find every reference. There's no option to
> "find reference" in openoffice writer.
>
> I'm not worried about WORKING to do it, the problem is I'm with a lot of
> pressure from the institute I studied at, in order to deal with all the
> graduation proceedings quickly.
>
>
> Does someone has any suggestion?
>
> I wouldn't mind to uncompress the odt file and "fiddle" with it. Any
> thing.
>
> Any help would be really appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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