Okay. Don't know if I need it that badly to construct that. Really it's just to help me keep track of paragraphs for a contracting project. But then again I may try it just to increase my knowledge of OO. Brian Barker wrote: > At 10:04 20/03/2009 -0700, John Meyer wrote: >> Is there any way in a Writer document to set up a field based on the >> results of a formula involving statistics. For instance, if I wanted >> to display the number of paragraphs divided by 2? > > Yes. There are two parts to this problem: inserting the number of > paragraphs, and halving it. > > Inserting the number of paragraphs: > o Go to Insert | Fields > | Other... | Document. > o Under Type, select Statistics, and under Select select Paragraphs. > o Click Insert. > > Halving this number: > o Create a suitable table - perhaps just one row and a number of > columns. > o Insert the number of paragraphs (as above) in one cell by itself. > o In another cell, type an equals sign and then construct your > formula as you would in a spreadsheet. Click in the cell containing > the number of paragraphs to obtain a reference to it and/or type in > the input line. You may end up with something like =<A1>/2 . > > There are various ways to hide the original field so that it does not > appear in the final document, but the simplest is probably to set the > text colour of the field to be white. > > If you need other text on the same line, you could put it in other > cells of the table. You will probably want to choose the table to > have no borders. Note that field will not be updated every time you > create a new paragraph: you will need to use Tools | Update > | Fields > (or F9) to stimulate this. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org > >
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