Dr. Rathore, I could hug you & spin you around. It has been unbelievably frustrating trying to find tutorials for Libre Office, & despite the age of this video it is still very relevant & useful for Master Docs. Thank you for the guidance. A great blessing.
At 9:56, instead of clicking and dragging to select the text, triple click. It’s so much easier. In some cases triple clicking selects a sentence. In some cases, it selects a paragraph. Double clicking usually selects word at a time. There are other modifiers that can affect this too. In Word (I think) Shift-triple clicking used to select one sentence at a time. Other app-specific modifiers may also apply. Regards. -DP
Hey thanks, man! I opened LO and got a tip about using 'Master document'. Sounded interesting so a couple of hours later I went searching for information and found your tutorial! I can't wait to get started! Thanks for the hard work you put into this video!
Great explanation, with attention to details! Thank you so much, Dr Rathore! One tiny suggestion is to use subtitles in your video, so when I use Firefox in Spanish, YT automatically can translate your transcript into my language.
Many thanks for your kind words of appreciation. I will surely look into and try to incorporate subtitles in Spanish in future videos. Many thanks for your very useful suggestion.
I learned a lot from your proceeding. Thanks a lot! IMHO you better had displayed the Formatting Marks (F10) for better control of the text flow. Using Body Text paragraph style could grant more benefit in variability. - Cheers
By far the BEST video I have seen explaining any of LibreOffice functions. The opening of the video with the visuals explaining what you are going to do before you showed us, was very, very helpful. Also not too fast and explaining what you are clicking on and why. Thank you so much! Now I also have a question: I wonder if when I add the chapters/docs into the master, if the citations can each keep their own numbering so that I don't have citations numbering into the hundreds or thousand. For instance, chapter one has 52 citations and chapter two, 10 citations. I don't want the last citation of the two chapters to be 62, but rather end in 10. I want to keep them separate. How do I achieve this? Thank you again!
Many thanks for your very kind words of appreciation. I am so glad that you found the tutorial useful. Thanks also for a great question. If I have understood it correctly, the idea is to have references numbered 1..n at the end of each chapter and that they should retain their 1..n numbering for each chapter when individual chapters are collated inside the Master Document. I created two sample documents ( chapter 1 and 2) and inserted 2 references in the first one using the IEEE citation style (via Zotero) and three references in the second document following the same IEEE citation style. Then I brought these two documents inside a master document as shown in the video and the reference numbering per chapter was automatically retained as 1..n and did not cumulatively progress from chapter 2 onwards. So I did not have to do anything at all beyond simply importing them to get compartmentalized reference numbers per chapter as suggested by you. A quick and dirty video capturing my results can be seen from here : tinyurl.com/bd9mur8x I am not sure if this answers your question exactly but this sure seems to work for me. Hope this helps.
@@ChinmayaSinghRathore Thank you so much for the clip! I have not used the Zotro before, or the master document yet. I am going to check out your page breaks tutorial, and then get started. You have helped me understand the format of this software. I learned WordPerfect decades ago and learning styles is all new to me. Fortunately, you are a great help. Have a great week!
@@pdpaznative Many thanks. I created a tutorial on using Zotero inside LibreOffice. Its a great reference manager. You can see that tutorial from here th-cam.com/video/UTx7PVfbSvo/w-d-xo.html Cheers
Great tutorial, detailed and complete and easy to follow. One little question : how could I remove one document from the list of those hyperlinked into the master doc?. (remove the hyperlink without deleting the original doc). Thanks in advance
Many thanks. To remove a hyperlinked document, just right click on that document name in the navigator window and choose Delete. The document will be unlinked. For example at 25:36 in the video, the navigator box shows three linked documents (chapter1,chapter2 and chapter3). Say you wanted to unlink chapter2. So right click on chapter2-Digital Divide-Copy.odt entry inside the navigator box and choose Delete. You can always add it back again as explained in the video using Insert >> File from the navigator box icons and reposition using drag and drop. Hope this helps.
Thanks for your appreciation. Page numbering in the original documents remains the same i.e. unaffected by the fact that these documents are participating inside another master document. Inside the master document, page numbering is in sequence as per the order of the files linked inside the master document as seen in the navigator window. You can reposition (drag and drop) linked documents in the navigator window and the page numbering inside the master document will adjust accordingly. Lets say we have two documents A (3 pages numbered 1-3) and B ( 5 pages numbered 1-5). Lets say we start a new Master document C and link A and B documents inside the master document in that order ( A first followed by B). So when you activate page numbering inside the Master Document, pages will be numbered 1-8 , the first three pages of A being numbered 1-3 and next 5 pages of B numbered 4-8. If you open A and B independently they will be numbered 1-3 and 1-5 respectively i.e. as they were originally. In the master document C, if you drag and drop document B above document A ( you can do this in the navigator window), the master document numbering will now show pages 1-5 ( from document B) followed by pages 6-8 (from document A). In summary, the master document has its own page numbering without impacting the page numbering of the participating documents. Hope this helps.
Hi Dr. Rathore I have been working my way through your excellent videos on Master Documents and Styles and have come across a quandary I can't seem to find an answer for. I have started with the chapters as separate documents. Now that I have the first one underway I have come to a point where I want a cross reference to look up a bookmark that is going to be be in another chapter. How do I manage this as I go forward. Obviously the bookmark in the other chapter has not been created yet as I have not got to that chapter. I am enjoying your lectures, very well planned, thoughtout and executed. Thanks. Ken.
Thanks. You can please refer to Chapter 16 - Pages 369-372 of the Libre Office Writer 7.2 guide available from the following link for information on cross referencing between sub-documents. documentation.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/Documentation/en/WG7.2/WG72-WriterGuide.pdf Hope this helps.
@@ChinmayaSinghRathore Thanks for that. I am working through that now. Another question that popped up is about password protection. I like to password protect the sub documents to stop unauthorised changes. Is this password going to cause issues when I create the master document with these "password Protected" sub Documents.
I guess it might be best to make an unprotected copy of the sub-document and then bring it into the master document. Bringing in password protected documents should in theory not matter after the password has been given but in practice it might not import the text well or at all.
Hi. I am not able to clearly understand the question. Sheets in a Calc or Excel file could be akin to pages in a odt or writer document (equivalent to MS Word). So the writer file (odt) already has multiple pages or sheets in that sense (a report document for example could have 50 to 100 pages or sheets). A direct comparision of writer and calc/excel might therefore not be applicable here. If however you are referring to something specific that you are trying to do, it will help if you can elaborate a bit on the exact task you are unable to or trying to accomplish. If that task can be done in MS Word , an example from the MS Word setting would help me understand the problem better and I can try to respond to it. Thanks
@Dr. Chinmaya S Rathore Tutorial Videos Hi, thank you for getting back to me. Let me explain what I'm trying to do. I have one very long .odt document where I put my notes from school. It is all in one document and I prefer it this way. But I'd like to split it into either sheets what would contain lets say just one subject each. Or if there was a way to split it into chapters and a way to jump between chapters easily. In Excel I can use sheets and each sheet contains different data. In .odt document I have to just search it all though with ctrl + f.
I also set the length of the pages to maximum so it is an indefinitely long slip of paper so I don't have to look at the page breakouts. Is there a way to quickly navigate through the document? Chapters or sheets or a way to build an index that would take me to a particular chapter with a single click. Thank you for your help.
@@thomashunter5232 Can you please have a look at this video and adapt this technique to navigate quickly. th-cam.com/video/WT2jPhLdHPM/w-d-xo.html Hope this helps.
@@ChinmayaSinghRathore Thank you. I noticed in the navigation pannel in your video that bookmarks are also a thing. Bookmarks seem to be what I was looking for. Thanks
When you say "bring" a document to a master document. What exactly do you need to do to "bring" the document to the master document? You need to explain how to incorporate subdocuments to a master document first. Thank you.
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Dr. Rathore, I could hug you & spin you around. It has been unbelievably frustrating trying to find tutorials for Libre Office, & despite the age of this video it is still very relevant & useful for Master Docs. Thank you for the guidance. A great blessing.
Many thanks for your very kind words of appreciation. I am so glad that you found the tutorial useful.
At 9:56, instead of clicking and dragging to select the text, triple click. It’s so much easier. In some cases triple clicking selects a sentence. In some cases, it selects a paragraph. Double clicking usually selects word at a time.
There are other modifiers that can affect this too. In Word (I think) Shift-triple clicking used to select one sentence at a time. Other app-specific modifiers may also apply. Regards. -DP
Thanks for your helpful observations .
Hey thanks, man! I opened LO and got a tip about using 'Master document'. Sounded interesting so a couple of hours later I went searching for information and found your tutorial! I can't wait to get started! Thanks for the hard work you put into this video!
Many thanks for your kind appreciation. Hope you find the video useful.
Great explanation, with attention to details! Thank you so much, Dr Rathore!
One tiny suggestion is to use subtitles in your video, so when I use Firefox in Spanish, YT automatically can translate your transcript into my language.
Many thanks for your kind words of appreciation. I will surely look into and try to incorporate subtitles in Spanish in future videos.
Many thanks for your very useful suggestion.
I found this Tutorial to be well-presented and clear. Thank you, Dr Rathore. Now to actually implement your instructions.
Tutorial is very best!
Very good tutorial!
I did not know such feature exists in Libre Writer. It will be useful to me. Cheers!
Many thanks for your kind appreciation. I am glad that you found the tutorial useful.
Very useful and you explain it very well. Easy to follow
I learned a lot from your proceeding. Thanks a lot! IMHO you better had displayed the Formatting Marks (F10) for better control of the text flow. Using Body Text paragraph style could grant more benefit in variability. - Cheers
Many thanks for your appreciation and useful. suggestions.
Excellent tutorial! Thank you so much for making it!
You are the best!
Many thanks for your appreciation.
By far the BEST video I have seen explaining any of LibreOffice functions. The opening of the video with the visuals explaining what you are going to do before you showed us, was very, very helpful. Also not too fast and explaining what you are clicking on and why. Thank you so much! Now I also have a question: I wonder if when I add the chapters/docs into the master, if the citations can each keep their own numbering so that I don't have citations numbering into the hundreds or thousand. For instance, chapter one has 52 citations and chapter two, 10 citations. I don't want the last citation of the two chapters to be 62, but rather end in 10. I want to keep them separate. How do I achieve this? Thank you again!
Many thanks for your very kind words of appreciation. I am so glad that you found the tutorial useful.
Thanks also for a great question. If I have understood it correctly, the idea is to have references numbered 1..n at the end of each chapter and that they should retain their 1..n numbering for each chapter when individual chapters are collated inside the Master Document.
I created two sample documents ( chapter 1 and 2) and inserted 2 references in the first one using the IEEE citation style (via Zotero) and three references in the second document following the same IEEE citation style.
Then I brought these two documents inside a master document as shown in the video and the reference numbering per chapter was automatically retained as 1..n and did not cumulatively progress from chapter 2 onwards. So I did not have to do anything at all beyond simply importing them to get compartmentalized reference numbers per chapter as suggested by you.
A quick and dirty video capturing my results can be seen from here : tinyurl.com/bd9mur8x
I am not sure if this answers your question exactly but this sure seems to work for me.
Hope this helps.
@@ChinmayaSinghRathore Thank you so much for the clip! I have not used the Zotro before, or the master document yet. I am going to check out your page breaks tutorial, and then get started. You have helped me understand the format of this software. I learned WordPerfect decades ago and learning styles is all new to me. Fortunately, you are a great help. Have a great week!
@@pdpaznative Many thanks. I created a tutorial on using Zotero inside LibreOffice. Its a great reference manager. You can see that tutorial from here
th-cam.com/video/UTx7PVfbSvo/w-d-xo.html
Cheers
Nicely done.
Many thanks for your kind words of appreciation. Glad that you found the video useful.
Great tutorial, detailed and complete and easy to follow. One little question : how could I remove one document from the list of those hyperlinked into the master doc?. (remove the hyperlink without deleting the original doc). Thanks in advance
Many thanks. To remove a hyperlinked document, just right click on that document name in the navigator window and choose Delete. The document will be unlinked. For example at 25:36 in the video, the navigator box shows three linked documents (chapter1,chapter2 and chapter3). Say you wanted to unlink chapter2. So right click on chapter2-Digital Divide-Copy.odt entry inside the navigator box and choose Delete. You can always add it back again as explained in the video using Insert >> File from the navigator box icons and reposition using drag and drop. Hope this helps.
Great tutorial - put a thumbs-up. What happens to the page numbering of the linked files though? Does the Master Document renumber/update the pages?
Thanks for your appreciation.
Page numbering in the original documents remains the same i.e. unaffected by the fact that these documents are participating inside another master document. Inside the master document, page numbering is in sequence as per the order of the files linked inside the master document as seen in the navigator window. You can reposition (drag and drop) linked documents in the navigator window and the page numbering inside the master document will adjust accordingly. Lets say we have two documents A (3 pages numbered 1-3) and B ( 5 pages numbered 1-5). Lets say we start a new Master document C and link A and B documents inside the master document in that order ( A first followed by B). So when you activate page numbering inside the Master Document, pages will be numbered 1-8 , the first three pages of A being numbered 1-3 and next 5 pages of B numbered 4-8. If you open A and B independently they will be numbered 1-3 and 1-5 respectively i.e. as they were originally. In the master document C, if you drag and drop document B above document A ( you can do this in the navigator window), the master document numbering will now show pages 1-5 ( from document B) followed by pages 6-8 (from document A). In summary, the master document has its own page numbering without impacting the page numbering of the participating documents.
Hope this helps.
@@ChinmayaSinghRathore Awesome explanation. That's exactly how I assumed (and even hoping) it to be based on your video. Thank you so much, sir.
Hi Dr. Rathore
I have been working my way through your excellent videos on Master Documents and Styles and have come across a quandary I can't seem to find an answer for. I have started with the chapters as separate documents. Now that I have the first one underway I have come to a point where I want a cross reference to look up a bookmark that is going to be be in another chapter. How do I manage this as I go forward. Obviously the bookmark in the other chapter has not been created yet as I have not got to that chapter.
I am enjoying your lectures, very well planned, thoughtout and executed. Thanks.
Ken.
Thanks. You can please refer to Chapter 16 - Pages 369-372 of the Libre Office Writer 7.2 guide available from the following link for information on cross referencing between sub-documents.
documentation.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/Documentation/en/WG7.2/WG72-WriterGuide.pdf
Hope this helps.
@@ChinmayaSinghRathore Thanks for that. I am working through that now.
Another question that popped up is about password protection. I like to password protect the sub documents to stop unauthorised changes. Is this password going to cause issues when I create the master document with these "password Protected" sub Documents.
I guess it might be best to make an unprotected copy of the sub-document and then bring it into the master document. Bringing in password protected documents should in theory not matter after the password has been given but in practice it might not import the text well or at all.
Is there a way how to have multiple sheets in one .odt document? Just like it is possible to have multiple sheets in calc or excel.
Hi. I am not able to clearly understand the question. Sheets in a Calc or Excel file could be akin to pages in a odt or writer document (equivalent to MS Word). So the writer file (odt) already has multiple pages or sheets in that sense (a report document for example could have 50 to 100 pages or sheets). A direct comparision of writer and calc/excel might therefore not be applicable here.
If however you are referring to something specific that you are trying to do, it will help if you can elaborate a bit on the exact task you are unable to or trying to accomplish. If that task can be done in MS Word , an example from the MS Word setting would help me understand the problem better and I can try to respond to it. Thanks
@Dr. Chinmaya S Rathore Tutorial Videos Hi, thank you for getting back to me. Let me explain what I'm trying to do.
I have one very long .odt document where I put my notes from school. It is all in one document and I prefer it this way. But I'd like to split it into either sheets what would contain lets say just one subject each. Or if there was a way to split it into chapters and a way to jump between chapters easily.
In Excel I can use sheets and each sheet contains different data. In .odt document I have to just search it all though with ctrl + f.
I also set the length of the pages to maximum so it is an indefinitely long slip of paper so I don't have to look at the page breakouts.
Is there a way to quickly navigate through the document? Chapters or sheets or a way to build an index that would take me to a particular chapter with a single click. Thank you for your help.
@@thomashunter5232
Can you please have a look at this video and adapt this technique to navigate quickly.
th-cam.com/video/WT2jPhLdHPM/w-d-xo.html
Hope this helps.
@@ChinmayaSinghRathore Thank you. I noticed in the navigation pannel in your video that bookmarks are also a thing. Bookmarks seem to be what I was looking for. Thanks
When you say "bring" a document to a master document. What exactly do you need to do to "bring" the document to the master document? You need to explain how to incorporate subdocuments to a master document first. Thank you.
He explained it: on the Navigator (F5), click on Add->File, then select your files that will be added as subdocuments
Hope it can help