Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
Summary: | merge master document into a flat sxw/odt/text document | ||
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Product: | Writer | Reporter: | brunodu <bro.dudu> |
Component: | save-export | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> |
Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | Trivial | ||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | esigra, issues, peschtra, rikus |
Version: | OOo 1.1.2 | Keywords: | oooqa, usability |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | All | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- |
Developer Difficulty: | --- |
Description
brunodu
2004-09-16 11:19:20 UTC
reassigned to ES. ->brunodu An OOo master document is more or less nothing else than a normal document with protected sections linked with sub documents. The export to sxw consistenly saves the global document content (else it would be a data loss): linked and protected section. But what you want to achieve doing an export is to *merge* the global document into a normal document. Conclusion: the current export to sxw is technically ok but useless and far awy from the user's needs. We have to rethink this and that's why I transform this DEFECT into an ENHANCEMENT. in the meantime, there's a workaround: - in the Navigator. toggle from global document view to the normal view (the icon in the upper left corner of the Navigator) - go to the category "Sections" - right click on a section and choose "Edit" - In the Section, select all sections shown in the list - click on [Remove] - close the dialog All section are gone and the content is saved in the current document. Now you can export to sxw. ->BH: as mentioned above, we need to improve the merge of master document into one normal document. Some issues in this area (already discussed with FL): - File - Export - to oot (sxw): produces a master-document-like oot (sxw), not a merged document - Save as: does not offer the oot (sxw) format. - for intuitivity reasons we may add an entry "Merge master document" (or similar) in the "File - Send" menu. - Usability/interoperability: MS Word has a own toolbar to insert, create, delete merge sub documents ->ES Your right, I want to merge the document. The work around is working fine, thanks. Summary: "cannot export properly a master document into a sxw document" --> "merge master document into a flat sxw/odt/text document" Keywords: +oooqa, +usability First off, is there any progress on this enhancement? Second, I was using the workaround proposed, but I am not sure what to do after I remove the sections to Save As... a .odt file. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. I just started a new issue http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=77620 today. Later I was informed at the forum about the existance of this issue. Both issues look similar although not completely. To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements". |