Writer Guide

Using document properties to hold
information that changes
Use the Properties dialog box for any document to enter information
that you might want to reference in your document. This is particularly
useful if it is information that might change during the course of the
project. Click File > Properties and enter the desired data in the
Description page (Figure 381) and the User Defined page (Figure 382).
Later in this chapter, we will see how to use this information in fields.
You can return to this dialog box at any time and change the
information you entered. When you do so, all of the references to that
information will change wherever they appear in the document. For
example, you might need to change the contents of the Title field from
the draft title to the production title.
Figure 381: The Description page of the document’s
Properties dialog box
The User Defined page of the Properties dialog box provides four fields
for you to use as required. You can change the default names for these
fields to more meaningful names. The example in Figure 382 shows
that three of the defaults have been changed: Info 1 to Chapter
subtitle , Info 2 to Chapter number , and Info 3 to Name of guide .
To change these field names, click the Info fields button near the
bottom of the dialog box. In the small pop-up dialog box (Edit Field
Names, not shown here), type the field names you want and then click
OK.
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