Re: [libreoffice-users] Converting references to non-reference text in LibreOffice Writer: the dumbest possible way?!

On 07/13/2011 03:15 PM, Sandy Miller wrote:
> I have LibreOffice documents (written in 3.2/3.3) with extensive field
> cross-referencing to numbers of tables, numbered paragraphs, numbered
> sections and chapters, etc. Conversion to Word often messes those up
> so I wanted to change them all to text. Now, in Word one could just
> highlight the whole text, press CTRL+SHIFT+F9, and be done with it. In
> LibreOffice, the help says, I have to convert every field into
> unformatted text with Paste Special ... Whoever  programmed this has
> got to be kidding me? Am I really supposed to go through a document
> one field at a time and update every one on its own, plus I have to
> figure out the right order because if I do that from the beginning of
> the doc, changing one changes the numbering of everything etc. after
> it ... Is there srsly no better way? Any pointers or changes in
> LibreOffice would be much appreciated!
Historically, I have used macros for such things (I know, horrid 
answer). You can also select the text containing the reference, copy it 
to the clipboard, then paste it as text (I know, yet another horrid 
answer). but... so far, I do not see that anyone has answered

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Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php


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