1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textswriterguidefield_convertxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Converting a Field into Text</title> 28<filename>/text/swriter/guide/field_convert.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154079"><bookmark_value>fields; converting into text</bookmark_value> 33<bookmark_value>converting;fields, into text</bookmark_value> 34<bookmark_value>replacing;fields, by text</bookmark_value> 35<bookmark_value>changing;fields, into text</bookmark_value> 36</bookmark> 37<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3154079" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><variable id="field_convert"><link href="text/swriter/guide/field_convert.xhp" name="Converting a Field into Text">Converting a Field into Text</link> 38</variable></paragraph> 39<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149281" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="2">You can change a field to regular text, so that it is no longer updated. After you change a field to text, you cannot change the text back into a field.</paragraph> 40<list type="ordered"> 41<listitem> 42<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155608" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="7">Select the field and choose <emph>Edit - Cut</emph>.</paragraph> 43</listitem> 44<listitem> 45<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154238" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="9">Choose <emph>Edit - Paste Special</emph>.</paragraph> 46</listitem> 47<listitem> 48<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154262" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="10">Click "Unformatted text" in the <item type="menuitem">Selection</item> list, and then click <item type="menuitem">OK</item>.</paragraph> 49</listitem> 50</list> 51<embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/> 52<embed href="text/swriter/guide/fields.xhp#fields"/> 53<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3157551" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="11"><link href="text/shared/01/02070000.xhp" name="Paste Special">Paste Special</link></paragraph> 54</body> 55</helpdocument> 56