{"id":926,"date":"2004-08-01T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2004-08-01T14:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=926"},"modified":"2004-08-01T10:21:43","modified_gmt":"2004-08-01T14:21:43","slug":"multiple-document-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"Multiple document tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the less finished, potentially useful bits of Openoffice is the Navigator. It ought to let you move and link multiple documents to your heart&#8217;s content, showing the structure of each one as it does so, with headings, bookmarks, notes, and so on.<\/p>\n\n<p>It <em>almost<\/em> does; and <em>almost<\/em> works as an outliner. Here are the tricks I use when assembling radio scripts from eight different interviews, put here partly so I remember them next time I make a radio programme.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>To get a listing of all open files, right click on an empty space. This shows all of them. The silly file list at the bottom only shows four at a time.<\/li>\n<li>Clicking on a displayed bookmark in another document does nothing, though you can drag it into the one you&#8217;re working on<\/li>\n<li>Double-clicking on a <em>heading<\/em> displayed from another document will open the other document at once in the main window at the heading you choose.<\/li>\n<li>In tools -&gt; outline numbering, set the outline level of default\/normal text to 10. Then the first line of every par shows up in the Navigator jsut as it can be set to show in Word.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Interesting posts resume shortly.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the less finished, potentially useful bits of Openoffice is the Navigator. It ought to let you move and link multiple documents to your heart&#8217;s content, showing the structure of each one as it does so, with headings, bookmarks, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=926\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=926\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}