Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I think you've described what I meant quite correctly.  However, when I choose ShowVariable, it will insert the correct text and date in the the main body of the document but not in headers or footers.  For text variables only a empty space character appears.  For numeric variables meant to represent the date, it inserts the number zero (which displays the date 30 Dec 1899).  Perhaps there is something obvious that I am missing.  Perhaps it is something unique to LO 4.0 on WinXP.  I created a sample document today as a demonstration (see attached).  The same problem occurred using WinXP, but when I opened the test document at home where I run Debian testing and LO 3.5.4.2, there was no problem at all.

Thanks.


On 03/04/2013 11:39 AM, bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org wrote:

Comment # 2 on bug 61671 from 
I am trying to verify this, but I would like to understand what you are doing,
exactly. This is my first time creating a variable. I went to Insert -> Other
-> Variables and used Set Variable to create a new variable myVar with text
"variable text". Then I followed your steps.

Insert -> Fields -> Other -> Variables -> ShowVariable, and clicked Insert. It
worked on inserting "variable text" or the name myVar, depending on which I
selected. It worked for the Header and Footer.

If this is not what you meant, could you please clarify?

Version: 4.0.0.3
Platform: Windows 8 x64



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