On 12/24/2018 1:46 AM, Carolyn wrote: > Dear Open Office Support Team, > > Thank you so very much for your dedication to OpenOffice. > > I'm familiar enough with Office apps, spent last 6 yrs of my career > teaching staff to use MSOffice and OpenOffice plus mainframe programs used > for the state of TX. I retired 6 yrs ago so we were using OO3.x at that > time. I have been using OO latest version personally since then. > > Last week Writer started inserting plain text into footer rather than the > actual auto field for document name, date, page counts..etc. I don't know > if it was caused by myself or by the latest update applied by Microsoft on > Wed, 12/20/18 to my Windows 7 Home Premium. I use a Dell Inspiron15 3000 > series with Core i3 processor. I have MS updates set to take only necessary > security updates, not optional. The last update applied was 2018-12 > Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 for > x64-based systems (KB4483187) and the update indicates that it was > successful. I do not use Internet Explorer as my browser at all. I use > Chrome 99% of the time, and Firefox rarely. > > I did, however, have the bright idea of creating an OO Writer template that > would always have the footer on with Document Name w/o extension and with > page no and page count. It is possible that I messed up the default > template for Writer. I researched and tried to follow all the directions > to replace the template and I even tried using the FIX for installation of > the currently installed version of OO 4.1.1.. I think.. then when that > didn't fix the problem, I downloaded and installed 4.1.6. Writer is > still not inserting the auto fields in the footer.. just text name of the > auto field. > > Can you please help me with the quickest way to do this.. like a new > default template for writer.. that comes with it when it's not broken... or > if it was MS that broke my OO, tell me how to fix, please? I have > searched and cannot find anything that fixes my problem. > > Thank you so much, > Carolyn > > > > *"I am able to do all things in Him who empowers me."* > Carolyn;
I suspect that you have inadvertently toggled a view setting. This can be corrected by editing your template document and doing either of the following: Click View/Field Names or ctl+F9 then check the footer, verify that the field contents are showing, then re-save the template Regards Keith
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