Writer Guide

Figure 382: The User Defined page of the document’s
Properties dialog box
Using other fields to hold information that
changes
One way that people use fields is to hold information that is likely to
change during the course of a project. For example, the name of a
manager, a product, or even your entire company may change just
before the document is due to be printed. If you have inserted the
changeable information as fields, you can change the information in
one place, and it will automatically change in all the places where that
field occurs.
Writer provides several places where you can store the information
referred to by a field. We will look at some of them here.
Seven document properties (Time, Date, Title, Subject, Author, Page
Number, and Page Count) are on the Insert > Fields menu (Figure
380). To insert one of these fields, click on it in the menu.
Other document properties are on the DocInformation and Document
pages of the Fields dialog box (Figure 383 and Figure 384), reached by
clicking Insert > Fields > Other or pressing Ctrl+F2 .
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