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Creating a template..................................................................................................................295 Editing a template.................................................................................................................... 297 Adding templates obtained from other sources........................................................................ 298 Setting a default template........................................................................................................ 299 Associating a document with a different template.................................................................... 301 Organizing templates............................................................................................................... 301 Chapter 11 Using Mail Merge..............................................................................................................305 What is mail merge?................................................................................................................ 306 Creating and registering the data source................................................................................. 306 Deregistering a data source..................................................................................................... 309 Re-registering an existing data source..................................................................................... 309 Creating a form letter............................................................................................................... 309 Printing mailing labels.............................................................................................................. 313 Printing envelopes................................................................................................................... 318 Using the Mail Merge Wizard to create a form letter................................................................ 321 Chapter 12 Tables of Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies.........................................................333 Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 334 Tables of contents.................................................................................................................... 334 Alphabetic indexes................................................................................................................... 344 Other types of indexes............................................................................................................. 352 Bibliographies.......................................................................................................................... 354 Chapter 13 Working with Master Documents................................................................................... 365 Why use a master document?................................................................................................. 366 Styles in master documents and subdocuments...................................................................... 366 Creating a master document: scenarios...................................................................................367 Splitting a document into master and subdocuments............................................................... 367 Combining several documents into a master document...........................................................368 Starting with no existing documents......................................................................................... 370 Restarting page numbering...................................................................................................... 375 Editing a master document...................................................................................................... 376 Cross-referencing between subdocuments.............................................................................. 377 Using the Navigator................................................................................................................. 380 Creating one file from a master document and its subdocuments............................................381 Problem solving: Anchoring pictures to a page........................................................................ 382 Chapter 14 Working with Fields......................................................................................................... 385 Introduction to fields................................................................................................................. 386 Quick and easy field entry........................................................................................................ 386 Using document properties to hold metadata and information that changes............................ 386 Using other fields to hold information that changes..................................................................388 Using AutoText to insert often-used fields................................................................................ 390 6 LibreOffice 4.0 Writer Guide
Defining your own numbering sequences................................................................................ 390 Using automatic cross-references............................................................................................392 Using fields in headers and footers.......................................................................................... 396 Using fields instead of outline numbering for appendix numbering..........................................397 Tricks for working with fields.................................................................................................... 397 Developing conditional content................................................................................................ 398 Using placeholder fields........................................................................................................... 404 Using input fields and input lists............................................................................................... 405 Chapter 15 Using Forms in Writer......................................................................................................409 Introduction to forms................................................................................................................ 410 When to use forms................................................................................................................... 410 Creating a simple form............................................................................................................. 411 Form controls reference........................................................................................................... 413 Example: a simple form........................................................................................................... 417 Accessing data sources........................................................................................................... 422 Advanced form customization.................................................................................................. 428 XForms.................................................................................................................................... 431 Chapter 16 Customizing Writer.......................................................................................................... 433 Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 434 Customizing menu content...................................................................................................... 434 Customizing toolbars............................................................................................................... 437 Assigning shortcut keys........................................................................................................... 440 Assigning macros to events..................................................................................................... 445 Adding functionality with extensions........................................................................................ 445 Appendix A Keyboard Shortcuts.........................................................................................................447 Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 448 Opening menus and menu items............................................................................................. 448 Navigating and selecting with the keyboard............................................................................. 449 Controlling dialogs................................................................................................................... 450 Macros..................................................................................................................................... 450 Shortcut keys for controlling documents and windows............................................................. 451 Function keys for Writer........................................................................................................... 452 Shortcut keys for Writer........................................................................................................... 453 Shortcut keys for tables........................................................................................................... 455 Shortcut keys for paragraphs and heading levels.................................................................... 456 Shortcut keys for moving and resizing frames, graphics, and objects...................................... 457 Shortcut keys in the Gallery..................................................................................................... 457 Shortcut keys in the New Theme area of the Gallery............................................................... 458 Shortcut keys in the Gallery preview area................................................................................ 458 Selecting rows and columns in a database table (opened by F4)............................................459 Shortcut keys for drawing objects............................................................................................ 459 LibreOffice 4.0 Writer Guide 7
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Page 3 and 4: Contents Copyright.................
Page 5: Chapter 6 Introduction to Styles...
Page 9 and 10: Preface
Page 11 and 12: This site provides support for Libr
Page 13 and 14: Figure 1: Dialog showing common con
Page 15: New features in LibreOffice Writer
Page 18 and 19: What is Writer? Writer is the word
Page 20 and 21: Moving toolbars To move a docked to
Page 22 and 23: Figure 9: Selection of visible tool
Page 24 and 25: Mode Effect Standard selection Clic
Page 26 and 27: Starting a new document You can sta
Page 28 and 29: Figure 17. Creating a document from
Page 30 and 31: Figure 18. Saving a file in Microso
Page 32 and 33: Closing a document To close a docum
Page 34 and 35: Header/Footer: Jumps between the te
Page 36 and 37: Note Setting reminders Users of MS
Page 39 and 40: Chapter 2 Setting up Writer Choosin
Page 41 and 42: Help - Tips When Tips is active, on
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Page 49 and 50: Personalization Using Personalizati
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Note Grid options Direct cursor let
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• The Print text in black option
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Figure 54: Choosing compatibility o
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Choosing options for HTML documents
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Figure 59: Choosing languages, dict
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Introduction This chapter covers th
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When you paste text, the result dep
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Find and replace specific formattin
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Figure 66: The Special Characters d
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Caution 1 Open Styles and Formattin
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A better strategy is to define tabs
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The Help describes each of these ch
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Figure 77: Modifying a list style 2
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Figure 81: Using the Insert Footnot
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Checking spelling and grammar Spell
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Text language The language to be us
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Using built-in language tools Write
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Note Figure 91: Synonyms on the con
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Figure 95: Setting hyphenation opti
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Figure 97: Customizing word complet
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Line numbering Line numbering puts
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2) To enter a comment on a marked c
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Merging modified documents The proc
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Using cross-references To ensure th
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For an Internet type hyperlink, cho
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Chapter 4 Formatting Pages Using Pa
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Use page styles (with two columns)
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Tip You can also insert a page brea
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Inserting a landscape page into a p
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Figure 114: Moving the margins To c
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Changing the number of columns for
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You also should think about the typ
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Figure 120: Removing the border fro
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Figure 123: Hyperlink page of the F
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Figure 127: Defining the space abov
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Linking sections You can insert the
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Figure 134: Indenting sections Ente
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Figure 137: Edit Sections dialog Ed
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Figure 139: Edit Links dialog Creat
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Caution Do not use the Background a
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8) Because tabs have been removed,
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Figure 147: Variations on the simpl
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Figure 150: Inserting a chapter num
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Figure 152: Set page number format
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Note Do not delete the bookmark at
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Figure 159: Frame dialog: Backgroun
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Chapter 5 Printing, Exporting, Faxi
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Note The options selected on the Pr
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Selecting what to print In addition
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8) Take the printed pages out of th
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3) On the Format page, verify or ed
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3) Select the label stock in the Br
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(GNU/Linux) is sufficient, while fo
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Note Exporting to XHTML Figure 179:
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2) On the second page, select E-mai
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Digital signing of documents To sig
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What are styles? Most people are us
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1) Open the Styles and Formatting w
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Click on the From File button if th
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Using the Format Paintbrush You can
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Double-click the Heading 1 entry of
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Applying frame styles Whenever you
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Example: Page with special formatti
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The first two methods are discussed
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Figure 203: Center Heading 1 Now, e
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Note You may have noticed this beha
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Changing the formatting of your sty
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To use custom styles in place of on
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Figure 216: Specifying numbering of
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Figure 221: Indenting Level 2 headi
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Chapter 7 Working with Styles
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Figure 226: The Organizer page disp
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Now, the fonts of all the heading s
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etween the lines of text. The regis
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• Keep with next paragraph is app
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Figure 237: A table with rotated he
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Using the Outline & Numbering page
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Caution If you want to make a style
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• Use the Font page to determine
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Style Comments and Use OLE The defa
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General settings for the page style
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Columns page Use this page to creat
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3) On the Page tab of the Page Styl
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Working with list styles List style
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• Width and Height: the dimension
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Chapter 8 Working with Graphics
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Preparing images for black-and-whit
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• Advantage - You can modify the
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View icons. Double-click in the sam
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Table 10: Graphic filters and their
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Resizing an image Figure 265: Resul
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Other settings The Picture dialog (
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1 Line 5 Line Color 9 To Foreground
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Arranging graphics Arranging a grap
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Wrap Through Superimposes the image
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When you are done, click on the App
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Figure 275: Transparent image added
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Illustration 1. An example Figure 2
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To use the image map editor: 1) In
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For example, entering the sequence
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Introduction Tables are a useful wa
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Figure 284: Nested table example Us
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move the mouse to either the left o
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It is also possible to resize a tab
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Note Figure 288: Table Format dialo
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• Select the vertical alignment o
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To move to the end of the table, pr
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Additional table operations Protect
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4) In the Format pane, choose how t
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To split a table: 1) Place the curs
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1 Table 9 Top 17 Select Column 2 Li
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Chapter 10 Working with Templates
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3) Double-click the folder that con
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The default location is your user t
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3) Find and select the package of t
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Associating a document with a diffe
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Importing a template If the templat
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What is mail merge? LibreOffice Wri
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5) In the next dialog, click Browse
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3) Find the data source that you wi
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c) Now click in the Condition box a
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Figure 318: Select Database, Table,
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9) Click New Document. You now have
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You can edit individual records in
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5) Choose whether or not to add Sen
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For the purposes of this descriptio
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Figure 329: Select address list dia
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Figure 332: Match fields dialog 5)
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You can see that the field takes c
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Step 7: Personalize documents This
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Chapter 12 Tables of Contents, Inde
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This change may leave a gray backgr
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Choosing the scope of the table of
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Figure 346: Entries page of Insert
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To remove paragraph styling from an
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Editing a table of contents To edit
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Note Tip Figure 351: Inserting an i
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The Insert Index/Table dialog (Figu
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To begin, in the Level column selec
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Adding multiple columns To display
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Filtering records To set up a filte
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4) If Tables (in the Database secti
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1) Select Insert > Indexes and Tabl
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Defining the paragraph style for th
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Creating a master document: scenari
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Figure 377: TestFile documents crea
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Step 2. Create a template You can c
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Step 6. Insert the subdocuments int
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Restarting page numbering The examp
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To update the master document (and
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Figure 391: Setting text to be used
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In a master document, you can toggl
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Figure 398: Anchoring a graphic and
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Introduction to fields Fields are e
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Using AutoText to insert often-used
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Figure 406: Defining a field to res
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For figures, you will usually choos
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Using fields in headers and footers
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You cannot use internal variables (
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Tip If you want to insert this fiel
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4) If you have set fields to update
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To add, edit, and remove items from
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Introduction to forms This chapter
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Form Control toolbar Option Button
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Form Design toolbar Form Navigator
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Configure form controls No further
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Accessing data sources The most com
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and so on, there is File | Send and
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Tip You can also add a command to a
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To adapt shortcut keys to your need
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Figure 453: Find and choose the en-
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Loading a saved keyboard configurat
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Appendix A Keyboard Shortcuts Using
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Shortcut Keys Result F6 Repeatedly
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Shortcut keys for controlling docum
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Shortcut keys Effect F12 Turns para
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Shortcut Keys Effect PageUp Moves u
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Selecting rows and columns in a dat
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Index A accessibility features 448
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toolbars 411 when to use 410 XForms
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odd and even 144 restarting 144 res
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tooltips 41 tracking changes 99 tra
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