On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 14:06 -0800, John Boyle wrote: > On 2/15/2012 11:17 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 18:38 -0500, Pat Brown wrote: > >> I'm running LibreOffice 3.4.4. In the last day when I try to put page > >> numbers or dates or anything from Fields, into a document, instead of > >> getting an actual number or date I get this: > >> Date (fixed) > >> Page numbers > >> Time (fixed) > >> > >> It also shows this when I open someone else's document so it's not > >> restricted to my own documents. Has anyone ever seen this problem > >> before? > >> Pat Brown > > This happens to the best of us every once in a while. I have done > > this, and I have seen posts earlier where others have done this. > > Try either one of these (they do the same thing): > > 1) View> Field names. > > 2) Control+F9 (hold down the Control key while typing the F9 key) > > > > --Dan > > > > > To all: I am confused. Is this the Open office users group for the > LibreOffice users group?:-\
Perhaps, the OP is a member of both user groups; or perhaps, the OP things that OOo and LO are basically the same. Regardless, the instructions I gave apply to both. Seems like people can have the same problem regardless of which of the two office suites they are using. I remember seeing a similar request for how to do this very thing several years ago on this mailing list. --Dan -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help