Re: [libreoffice-users] writer: repeat a cell content (string) in a cell or in text

On 07/22/2015 09:09 AM, Mike Scott wrote:

I tried, but it is not so useful as I expected :-)
...I was thinking about to use insert>field...
if I can have custom field to insert...

the aim is to have ONE information, in a cell or elsewhere, repeated in 
the document as many times as I like, and when I change this information 
(in the cell or elsewhere is it but ONE time) this is updated in the 
whole document.


> On 21/07/15 20:48, Brian Barker wrote:
> > At 15:45 21/07/2015 +0100, Mike Scott wrote:
> > > On 21/07/15 14:41, Brian Barker wrote:
> > > > Yes: create what you need in a spreadsheet and copy and paste the
> > > > required cell range into your text document. It will appear as a
> > > > table but will function like the spreadsheet section that it is.
> > >
> > > Or embed a spreadsheet object: Insert | Object | OLE Object and pick
> > > spreadsheet, then fill it in. Then you get most (all?) of the
> > > facilities you'd expect. Double-click to open the spreadsheet object
> > > for editing.
> >
> > There's no "Or" about it: isn't that just a complicated way to achieve
> > the same thing?
>
> Looking again, yes the same thing; sorry. More complicated though? - I'm
> not sure: one way you need a separate Calc window open, the other way
> you work directly within the Writer window alone.
>
> > > Referring back to my recent comments, this really should be the
> > > default action for anything table-like.
> >
> > Er, I think it is ...
>
> I was trying (badly) to make the point that there should ideally be no
> such thing as Writer's own table construct. IMO of course. It adds
> nothing but confusion when a Calc object can be embedded instead. Why
> does Writer need to have it's own sort of table, especially one so
> restricted in facilities and with a rather different usage from Calc?


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