Insert Fields

Insert, Fields

Purpose

Use Insert Fields to enter fields into text areas of your document. The text displayed in the fields may change dynamically according to certain conditions.

Steps

1. Create or Select a text area, which may be a text box, a header, or a footer.
2. To add a date or a filename field
• Choose Fields from the Insert menu, then choose Date or Filename.
  The field will display the current date or filename. For example, if the filename of your document changes after using the File Save As command, the field will update to the current filename automatically.

To add an author, a title or a custom field

• Choose Fields from the Insert menu, then choose Documen Author, Document Title or Custom Text, respectively.
• The value of these fields needs to defined in the Document Properties dialog.
  The author,title and custom fields must be specified in the document description in the following form:
  author=text
  title=text
  custom name=text
  Please replace the word "text" with your own text values.

When printing from a master document, you might want to use global page styles, which define uniform headers and footers throughout the whole master document. By using a title field in your global header, you can still display different document titles in the headers of the individual documents. Just keep in mind to define the value of the title field in the Document Properties dialog.

See Also

Insert Text

Headers and Footers

Format Text