Document

Fields are used to insert information about the current document, for example, file name, template, statistics, user data, date, and time.

To access this command...

Choose Insert - Field - More Fields - Document tab

Type

Lists the available field types. To add a field to your document, click a field type, click a field in the Select list, and then click Insert. The following fields are available:

Type	Meaning
Author	Name or initials of current user (as entered in - LibreOffice - User Data).
Chapter	Inserts the chapter number and/or the chapter name.
Date	Inserts the current date. You can insert the date as a fixed field - Date (fixed) - that does not change, or as a dynamic field - Date - that it is updated automatically. To manually update the Date field, press F9.
File name	Inserts the filename and/or the directory path of the current document, as well as the filename without extension.
Page	Inserts the page number of the current, previous, or next page.
Paragraph Signature	Inserts a meta-data field with a digital signature for the paragraph. You must have a digital certificate to sign a paragraph.
Sender	Inserts fields containing user data. You can change the user-data that is displayed by choosing - LibreOffice - User Data.
Statistics	Inserts document statistics, such as page and word counts, as a field. To view the statistics of a document, choose File - Properties, and then click the Statistics tab.
Templates	Inserts the filename, the path, or the filename without the file extension of the current template. You can also insert the names of the "Category" and the "Style" formats used in the current template.
Time	Inserts the current time. You can insert the time as a fixed field - Time (fixed) - that does not change, or as a dynamic field - Time - that it is updated automatically. To manually update the Time field, press F9.

The following fields can only be inserted if the corresponding field type is selected in the Type list.

Select

Lists the available fields for the field type selected in the Type list. To insert a field, click the field, and then click Insert.

To quickly insert a field from the Select list, double-click the field.

Format

Click the format that you want to apply to the selected field, or click "Additional formats" to define a custom format.

When you click "Additional formats", the Number Format dialog opens, where you can define a custom format.

If you choose "Chapter number without separator" for a chapter field, the separators that are specified for chapter number in Tools - Chapter numbering are not displayed.

If you choose "chapter number" as the format for reference fields, only the number of the chapter heading containing the referenced object is displayed in the field. If the paragraph style for the chapter heading is not numbered, the field is left blank.

For the HTML export and import of date and time fields, special LibreOffice formats are used.

Fixed content

Inserts the field as static content, that is, the field cannot be updated.

Level

Enter outline level of the chapter to be displayed. The inserted field will display the value taken from last paragraph with the specified outline level placed before the inserted field.

Offset

Enter the offset value that you want to apply to a page number field, for example "+1".

If you want, you can enter an Offset for the displayed page number. With an Offset value of 1, the field will display a number that is 1 more than the current page number, but only if a page with that number exists. On the last page of the document, this same field will be empty.

If you want to change the actual page number and not the displayed number, do not use the Offset value. To change page numbers, read the Page Numbers guide.

Offset in days/minutes

Enter the offset that you want to apply to a date or time field.