Hello Dotan, 2008/8/30 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks, Mike and Gene! OOo is quite more powerful than I thought! > > I discovered that I can use F2 and define a=5, which will simply show > 5 in the document. Later in the document I can press F2 again, type > b=a+3, and in the document will be displayed 8. > > However, when I go back to the beginning and replace a=5 with a=7, I > would expect the second location to update itself to show 10 instead > of 8. Alas, this does not occur.
Remember that you have to press F9 or Tools > Update > Fields to... guess what? update the fields :-) Fields are otherwise updated before you print, when you save the document and at some other events (maybe). > > Additionally, I cannot find out how to use the defined variables in > the Equation Editor. This is where I really need them. Could you be clearer on what this problem is? Cheers, Michele --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
