Howard (& anyone else who would like to help)... Today is my first time to download & attempt to use Open Office. I am trying to create a new document for my company and am running into a few (probably glaringly simple) problems. First, I can't type text across the whole doc. It's supposed to have a clear (w/background watermark) center section, but text won't cross it properly. Second,how do I ?flatten? the finished document so that no further changes can be made? I'm attaching the doc. in question so that you can laugh at my folly, or help as you see fit. Thanks
-----Original Message----- From: Howard Burford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 1:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] Hyperlinks Further testing has shown that my best bet is to use Sections, not References as John King suggested, because Sections will allow the linking of multiple lines whereas References seems only to pick up the firt line of text - not what I want. I still have to solve picking up only a part of a previous section to use to link elsewhere. Howard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Laurenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:25 AM Subject: Re: [users] Hyperlinks > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 20:53, Howard Burford wrote: > > As a result of my disaster using DDE links inadvisably, I'm now trying to > > get my head round hyperlinks - with very little success. > > > > What I wish to do is to select a portion of text in a document, and to > > reproduce it elsewhere in the same document, such that when the original > > text is modified the linked similar text is automatically modified in the > > same way. > > > > I can't believe it is so difficult - I must be approaching it the wrong way! > > Hi Howard, > What you are wanting to do is cross reference. > > There are several ways of doing this. I'll use set references. > > > Select the "master text" > Insert > Cross reference... > set reference > Give it a name > Click Insert > > Now position the cursor where you want the cross reference to go. > Select insert reference > Choose the name > Under Format select Reference > Click insert > > If you are doing a lot of these then I have developed some macros that > you may find useful. They are available from: > http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/ > > Thanks, Ian > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.10 - Release Date: 4/14/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.10 - Release Date: 4/14/2005
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