LibreOffice 24.8 Help
Fields are used to insert information about the current document, for example, file name, template, statistics, user data, date, and time.
To insert a field in your document, first select the field Type, then click in the Select list, to choose which information item should be inserted, then click Insert.
Lists the available field types.
Lists what information can be inserted for a selected field type.
To quickly insert a field from the Select list, double-click the field.
If a field is displaying a date, time or number, then Format is used to customize the appearance of the date, time, or number. Common formats are shown in the Format window, 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.
For type Heading, choose the format to display the heading number with the separator specified in .
Choose
to display the heading number alone without the separator.If the selected heading is not numbered, then the field is left blank.
For the HTML export and import of date and time fields, special LibreOffice formats are used.
Use this option with type to specify which heading to display. The displayed heading is the first one before the field, whose outline level is equal to or less than the specified value.
Enter the offset value that you want to apply to a page number field, for example "+1".
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.
Enter the offset that you want to apply to a date or time field.