1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3 4<!-- 5*********************************************************************** 6 * 7 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 8 * 9 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 10 * 11 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 12 * 13 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 14 * 15 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 16 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 17 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 18 * 19 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 20 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 21 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 22 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 23 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 24 * 25 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 26 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 27 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 28 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 29 * 30 ************************************************************************ 31 --> 32 33 34<meta> 35 <topic id="textswriterguidefield_convertxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 36 <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Converting a Field into Text</title> 37 <filename>/text/swriter/guide/field_convert.xhp</filename> 38 </topic> 39 </meta> 40 <body> 41<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154079"><bookmark_value>fields; converting into text</bookmark_value> 42 <bookmark_value>converting;fields, into text</bookmark_value> 43 <bookmark_value>replacing;fields, by text</bookmark_value> 44 <bookmark_value>changing;fields, into text</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark> 46<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> 47</variable></paragraph> 48 <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You can change a field to regular text, so that it is no longer updated.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> 49 <list type="ordered"> 50 <listitem> 51 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155608" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="7">Select the field and choose <emph>Edit - Cut</emph>.</paragraph> 52 </listitem> 53 <listitem> 54 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154238" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="9">Choose <emph>Edit - Paste Special</emph>.</paragraph> 55 </listitem> 56 <listitem> 57 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154262" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="10">Click "Unformatted text" in the<emph/> 58 <item type="menuitem">Selection</item> list, and then click<emph/> 59 <item type="menuitem">OK</item>.</paragraph> 60 </listitem> 61 </list> 62 <embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/> 63 <embed href="text/swriter/guide/fields.xhp#fields"/> 64 <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> 65 </body> 66</helpdocument>