LibreOffice Writer power tools: Conditional text | Linux Today

LibreOffice Writer power tools: Conditional text

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Bruce Byfield
Nov 26, 2013

Conditional text in LibreOffice Writer refers to text that changes according to circumstances you set. Conditional text can both simplify the use of paragraph styles and offer a solution to one of the biggest challenges in technical documentation: how to single-source, or maintain, multiple copies of a document within the same file.

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