On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 18:50 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > I'm doing evaluations of mutliple products to pick the most > suitable for the project at hand. This started life as a simple Writer > document - a list of requirements, values that we may see in various > products for this requirement, and a discussion of the requirement. I > then added a spreadsheet that gave a grid of products x requirements. > > Next, I added weights to the different requirements, and numeric > equivalents for the possible values for each requirement. Calculating > a "value" for each product is easy in Calc. However, I haved to > maintain the text descriptions and numeric values in both the Calc > spreadsheet and the Writer document. I'd like to fix this by linking > between the documents. Ideally, text descriptions link from Writer to > Calc, and values from Calc to Writer. > > However, I've not been able to find adequate documentation on > interdocument linking. The built-in help doesn't seem to have anything > at all. Some of the things I've turned up via Google have resulted in > simple copying, and in creating embedded documents - but not in > something that lets me change one document and update the values in > antoher. Possibly I had it right, and need some action (not mentioned > in the documentation) to update the linking document. > > So, I'm looking for a tutorial on interdocument linking, so that I can > maintain only one copy of the descriptions and values. Alternatively, > if I'm tackling this in the entirely wrong way, suggestions on better > ways to do this would be appreciated. >
Don't know about a tutorial but http://documentation.openoffice.org/ has User Guides and HOW-TOs that will likely help you. Have a look. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
