Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to Find Dangling Cross References in Writer

On 08/12/2013 12:42 PM, Sina Momken wrote:
> On 08/12/2013 02:53 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 07:25 +1000, Tim Lloyd wrote:
> > > Hi, Probably not the solution you were hunting for but I create a PDF
> > > and search for the offending text. It gets the job done in a roundabout
> > > sort of way
> > Sadly, this is my method as well.  It is especially irritating when
> > using Master Documents [which link many docuemnts].  The documents *CAN*
> > reference each other but only that only works from the Master Document,
> > so refreshing the master document and generating a PDF and searching for
> > the text is [so far] the simplest way I have found.
> I've not tested this idea myself, but why don't you just search for the
> offending error (i.e. Reference source not found) in the master
> documents itself? Why you first generate a PDF from that?
>
> P.S. I don't have a serious solution, but I think this can be my problem
> in the future too.
Because, search does not look at text in fields. You need to use a macro 
that can pull the fields and then look at the display content (or what 
ever it is called).

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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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