On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 17:25 -0400, TJ Frazier wrote: > On 10/2/2010 17:14, TJ Frazier wrote: > > On 10/2/2010 15:38, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > >> Tricky.... Never done this sort of thing in OOo on a large scale. On a > >> smaller scale, I expect a need to be able to have a scripted process > >> that is able to work through a set of documents (the set is defined > >> either by location or enumeration) and they are changed based on another > >> (such as copy the following values into the following text fields). > >> Apart from that, judicious (and minimal) use of fields to turn text on > >> and off. > >> > > Question: can you define fields in a template, and have them propagate > > to the documents? > > > Sorry, I said "fields", but what I /meant/ was those items on the File > > Properties > Custom Properties tab. That's easy to find, and central to > change easily. >
AFAIK, those fields propagate when a document is created from a template, but I don't know whether updating the template (or applying a different one) changes those fields in an existing document; I haven't tried it. We used those for awhile long ago, but found problems when the chapters were compiled into a master doc. I don't recall the details; I might remember later. --Jean --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
