Re: [libreoffice-users] multiple file import

At 09:26 19/12/2013 -0500, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote:
> At 19:13 18/12/2013 +0000, Nobody Noname wrote:
> > Is there a way to import multiple files into a new document? The 
> > existing function only allows multiples files to be imported 
> > successively, which is inefficient. If a directory contains
> > file1
> > file2
> > file3
> > it would be beneficial to be able to select all files in the import 
> > dialogue window for automatic successive import into the new document.
>
> I would love this feature, but with one thing added.  Imported files 
> would automatically take the name of the original files.

We must be at cross-purposes here!  The original request is for 
multiple files to be imported into a fresh, single file.  There would 
be no plurality of files to take on a plurality of names: just a 
single name for the single file made up of the contents of the many 
component files.  You'd name the composite file when you saved it - 
and you'd very likely put it in the same folder, so you wouldn't want 
it to have the same name as any of its components.

> Offending characters would be stripped or substituted.

Since the component files already exist, they can have no "offending 
characters" - either within their text or in their file names.

> Duplicate file names would have an increment adder.

You cannot have duplicate file names in the single source directory 
of course - unless you are extending the idea to importing, say, a 
combination of .odt and .doc files into one document in one process!

Brian Barker


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