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Alternately: Bookmarks vs Targets

I'm hard put to grasp when to use which for cross-referencing. From all the experimenting I've done, it appears to me that it boils down to personal preferences and not anything technical. What am I missing?

I know that bookmarks are faster to create. But you have to open the dialog each time. On the other hand, creating a target/reference involves more steps, but you can leave the dialog open to create multiple targets/references.

I also know that bookmarks are fast and easy to delete.

And I know that targets are fields.

Please help me understand the functional distinctions between bookmarks and targets.

Thank you!

Using DATEDIFF for a Base query column LO 6.2.8.2 on Win7 I have a query in which I use a function in a column to show

Help for Firebird in Base? So LO switches to Firebird by default for Base...but no online help for it? I have blown a

Try changing the scope of the named range to global. Then you should be able to select it via Format > Print Ranges

I used to be able to do this after clicking Edit on the table's context menu. Then I would cut and paste the field I wan

Why is Base saving automatically? I am using LO 6.0.6.2 on Win7. I discovered this morning that simply clicking Tables

How do I name a single cell in Calc? Not a range of cells. Just a single cell. Could someone please confirm these four

I am presently working on a brand new high school course for teaching LibreOffice. It consists of 10 units of 12 lessons

Bookmarks vs References Alternately: Bookmarks vs Targets I'm hard put to grasp when to use which for cross-referencing

You'll be glad to know that LibreOffice 5.3 now has table styles.

LibreOffice 5.3 now has table styles.

Charlie, I'm using LO 5.2.5.1 on Win7Pro. Inserting Charts says, "In a Writer document, you can insert a chart based on

I tried that various time and since that didn't work, I wrote the OP above. (Thanks for your comment, though.)

How do I create a chart from a Writer table? Apparently it used to be Insert>Object>Chart. That's no longer an ava

I noticed a weird deal with 5.1.5.2 for Windows.

An install on one machine showed AutoCorrect under both Format and Tools, but on another machine it showed AutoCorrect only under Tools.

This afternoon I downloaded the installation file for 5.1.6.2 and used it to update LibreOffice on both machines in question. The weirdness continues. What's with that?

Both machines are running Win7Pro, though one is 32-bit and other is 64-bit. That surely doesn't make the difference, does it?

I'm using LO 5.0.4.2 on Win7.

I'm in the process of writing the preliminary material for a high school course teaching the use of LO.

The Getting Started Guide (GS50) cautions regarding "Changing Page Margins":

If you change the margins, the new margins affect the page style and will be shown in the Page Style dialog the next time you open it.

Because the page style is affected, the changed margins apply to all pages using that style.

Originally, I had taken that to mean that if I changed the margins in any document, the page style in use would be affected in any other document (existing or new) using that same page style.

Apparently that's not what it means. (Judging by how Writer behaves for me.)

I gather the above caution has to do only with the existing document and not with any other. If I gather correctly, it seems it'd be beneficial to make the official documentation more clear on this point. (You know, for the benefit of people like me. grin)

Anyway, I'm posting this here, hoping to get some confirmation or correction on this matter.

Thanks for reading this.

-Mark