RE: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-Original Message- From: Oliver-Rainer Wittmann [mailto:orwittm...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 00:32 To: d...@openoffice.apache.org; users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer Hi, On 15.02.

RE: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
; > > No, I am not talking about these kind of fields. > > Best regards, Oliver. > > > P.S.: Sorry for the long silence, again. I had got another viral flue > which knocked me out the last days. > >>- Dennis >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Ol

Re: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-15 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
regards, Oliver. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Oliver-Rainer Wittmann [mailto:orwittm...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 01:50 To: d...@openoffice.apache.org; users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields

RE: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
e.org; users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer Hi Dennis, On 06.02.2013 19:35, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > For "real" input fields, (that is, form:text elements), direct entry works. > I am not sure what y

Re: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-14 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 06.02.2013 19:17, James Plante wrote: Oliver, You can get much of the behavior you desire by defining User Fields instead of Input Fields. They have the added benefit of being global. In other words, if you change one at the end of the document, and that same field appears at the beginni

Re: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-14 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
ttmann [mailto:orwittm...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 08:23 To: d...@openoffice.apache.org; users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer Hi, recently I got notice about our (from my point of view) very user

RE: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
to:orwittm...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 08:23 To: d...@openoffice.apache.org; users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer Hi, recently I got notice about our (from my point of view) very user-unfriendly way for edi

Re: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-06 Thread James Plante
Oliver, You can get much of the behavior you desire by defining User Fields instead of Input Fields. They have the added benefit of being global. In other words, if you change one at the end of the document, and that same field appears at the beginning, BOTH fields change if you edit either one

[improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer

2013-02-06 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, recently I got notice about our (from my point of view) very user-unfriendly way for editing Input Fields in Writer. Currently, you can not place the cursor into an Input Field which in general is shown with a grey background when Menu View - Field Shading is on. If you click on the Input