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Tip

To change the format of the Date value, go to Tools > Options >

Languages and change the Locale setting. Be careful! This change

affects all open documents, not just the current one.

Figure 387: Custom Properties page, showing drop-down lists of names and types

Using other fields to hold information that changes

One way that people use fields is to hold information that is likely to change during

the course of a project. For example, the name of a manager, a product, or even your

entire company may change just before the document is due to be printed. If you

have inserted the changeable information as fields, you can change the information in

one place, and it will automatically change in all the places where that field occurs.

Writer provides several places where you can store the information referred to by a

field. We will look at some of them here.

Seven document properties (Date, Time, Page Number, Page Count, Subject, Title,

and Author) are on the Insert > Fields menu (Figure 385). To insert one of these

fields, click on it in the menu. Some of these fields get their information from the

Document Properties dialog box (Figure 386.)

Other document properties are on the DocInformation and Document pages of the

Fields dialog box (Figure 388 and Figure 389), reached by choosing Insert > Fields

> Other or pressing Ctrl+F2. Notice the Custom item in the Type list; this is derived

from the Custom Properties page of the Document Properties dialog box (Figure

387).

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