On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:28:03 -0600 James Plante <jimpla...@me.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 4, 2012, at 3:36 AM, Martin Groenescheij <mar...@groenescheij.com> > wrote: > > > The advantage of entering a cross-reference as a field is that you do */not > > have to adjust the references manually/* every time you change the > > document. Just update the fields with F9 and the references in the document > > are updated too. > > And with AOO, you can simply pick paragraph headings as the cross-reference > if you're working on a single document. If, OTOH, you're using a master doc, > then you must name the sub-file and explicitly spell out the reference. This > is quite inconvenient in a big, complex document; there's also a high > probability of error. If I'm working in a sub-file--say, Site Value, and I > want to reference an entry in the section titled "market analysis," then the > field reference has to be complete and accurate into a file that's not open, > or worse, which is open and being changed by someone else. > > Now, a programmer who can figure out how to keep that much information > straight in a dynamic document has my complete admiration. But it is easier > for me to simply write a single, massive document that knows its own parts > thoroughly. AOO does this until the document length exceeds about 170 pages, > then it loses its mind, starts acting goofy, and won't save. > > And, btw, you don't have to lose your changes when that happens. Just open a > new document, copy the new material from the malfunctioning one, and paste it > into the new blank document. That will save nicely. The longer doc won't. > Just for badness, I once created an OpenOffice document of 22K+ pages (yes, over 22,000 pages), of plain text. I can't remember how many copies of War and Peace it was, but it could be edited and saved, although so slow as to be effectively unuseable. I have two documents of formatted text, linked Table of Contents, footnotes, endnotes and hyperlinks, each of well over 200 pages, which I regularly edit and expand, without trace of any goofiness on their part (I don't mention goofiness as applied to myself - "Nemo judex in sua causa"[the reference is Coke, in Dr Bonham's case, if anyone is interested. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
