1*cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3*cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*cdf0e10cSrcweir<!-- 5*cdf0e10cSrcweir*********************************************************************** 6*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 7*cdf0e10cSrcweir * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 8*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 9*cdf0e10cSrcweir * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 10*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 11*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 12*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 13*cdf0e10cSrcweir * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 14*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 15*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 16*cdf0e10cSrcweir * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 17*cdf0e10cSrcweir * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 18*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 19*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 20*cdf0e10cSrcweir * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 21*cdf0e10cSrcweir * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 22*cdf0e10cSrcweir * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 23*cdf0e10cSrcweir * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 24*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 25*cdf0e10cSrcweir * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 26*cdf0e10cSrcweir * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 27*cdf0e10cSrcweir * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 28*cdf0e10cSrcweir * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 29*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 30*cdf0e10cSrcweir ************************************************************************ 31*cdf0e10cSrcweir --> 32*cdf0e10cSrcweir 33*cdf0e10cSrcweir 34*cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 35*cdf0e10cSrcweir <topic id="textswriterguidefield_convertxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 36*cdf0e10cSrcweir <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Converting a Field into Text</title> 37*cdf0e10cSrcweir <filename>/text/swriter/guide/field_convert.xhp</filename> 38*cdf0e10cSrcweir </topic> 39*cdf0e10cSrcweir </meta> 40*cdf0e10cSrcweir <body> 41*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154079"><bookmark_value>fields; converting into text</bookmark_value> 42*cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>converting;fields, into text</bookmark_value> 43*cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>replacing;fields, by text</bookmark_value> 44*cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>changing;fields, into text</bookmark_value> 45*cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 46*cdf0e10cSrcweir<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*cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 48*cdf0e10cSrcweir <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*cdf0e10cSrcweir <list type="ordered"> 50*cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 51*cdf0e10cSrcweir <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*cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 53*cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 54*cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154238" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="9">Choose <emph>Edit - Paste Special</emph>.</paragraph> 55*cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 56*cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 57*cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154262" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="10">Click "Unformatted text" in the<emph/> 58*cdf0e10cSrcweir <item type="menuitem">Selection</item> list, and then click<emph/> 59*cdf0e10cSrcweir <item type="menuitem">OK</item>.</paragraph> 60*cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 61*cdf0e10cSrcweir </list> 62*cdf0e10cSrcweir <embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/> 63*cdf0e10cSrcweir <embed href="text/swriter/guide/fields.xhp#fields"/> 64*cdf0e10cSrcweir <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*cdf0e10cSrcweir </body> 66*cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument>