Writer Guide

• In the Value column, type what you want to appear in the
document where this field is used.
• If you need more than four custom properties, click the Add
button.
Figure 377: The Custom Properties 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 (Date, Time, Page Number, Page Count,
Subject, Title, and Author) are on the Insert > Fields menu (Figure
375). 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 378 and Figure 379), reached by
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