Its predefined variables include things like dates, page numbers, authors, and file names. You may still generate whole slideshows automatically from templates, with this old trick of mine, if you really needed to, but let’s look specifically at Writer. Presentations, instead, are usually static stuff without much occasion to use variables. After all, spreadsheets have their own functions and a whole different approach to dynamic content anyway. The spreadsheet and presentation tools don’t give access to the same panel because, I guess, there never was much demand for it. Writer, the word processor of the suites, has a panel to add many variables, or create custom ones.
Variables, or “user-defined fields”, are pieces of dynamic content that our two free office suites (FOS) can generate and manage for you. This week I’m going to give you a bit more reason to know how variables work, including the real world example that granted them a place in that list.
When I was looking for the seven great features of OpenOffice and LibreOffice that you probably ignore, one of those features turned out to be variables. Learn how to get the most out of the variables feature in both OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Three great ways to use variables in LibreOffice and OpenOffice
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