Detailed Guides: More than just text
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Chapter 8. Detailed Guides: More than just text

Up to this point in the documentation, we have been focusing on text. That is about to change!

This chapter will discuss inserting a table of contents, graphics, page numbers, links to web pages and how to insert other types of KOffice data into a document.

This chapter will also cover document information and its relationship to document variables.

Entering Document information

KWord can store information about the author and the document in the same file as the text and data of the document.

Entering this information into KWord, you can do two things:

  1. This information will always be available for reference. This is especially important in situations where there are many possible authors (employees) and hundreds (or thousands) of documents.

  2. The information supplied here, can be inserted automatically into the document as a document variable.

To enter document information, simply select File->Document Information... from the menubar. This will bring up a dialog box with two tabs.

The first tab is labled Author and has blanks to enter the authors name, title, company and contact information (email address, telephone numbers and physical address).

Tip

Every value entered in this dialog can be inserted as a document variables.

The second tab is labled About. Enter a document title and an abstract.

Tip

Both the document title and the abstract can be accessed through document variables.

When finished entering the information, click OK to apply the changes. If any document variables were changed, KWord will update their values throughout the document.

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