Writer: Chapter not showing up in Insert > field > More fields

[captlibre80]

Greetings

I never got a thorough tutorial on using LO for writing especially long books. In the past I mainly only used it for note taking.

DO you have a good step by step to show how to get the original issue working?

Would implementing what you propose with levels and headings?

The goal with “header1” is mainly to organize the book into chapters with easily identifiable headers in the navigator

the Header1 for each chapter concept was merely a guess and I didn’t know I had to do something else to make chapters change with chapter in the header function work

Got any stteps?

[ajlittoz]

There is no ban on using Heading 2 on chapters. Implicitly, this suggests you are using Heading 1 for a more global subdivision of the book, like part or volume. But if you want the chapter to be reported in the header, you must select level 2 in the field dialog. Otherwise you get whatever is presently current at level 1 repeated without change in header.

It comes to my mind that you probably have no Heading 1 in your 600-page book. So it is possible that a non-existent or empty level-1 heading while there are many level-2’s might upset Writer and cause the freeze. So, check the structure of your book. The Navigator is a great tool for that.

@captlibre80

DO you have a good step by step to show how to get the original issue working?

Since the issue does not occur on my side, it is difficult to suggest a fix.

@captlibre80

The goal with “header1” is mainly to organize the book into chapters with easily identifiable headers in the navigator

This is effectively the goal. But, as I said, you styled your chapters in the sample with Heading 2 and obviously you somehow disabled Heading 1 in Tools>Heading Numbering. This hints that you discovered something was wrong and you tried to fix it. Unfortunately you kept the “twist” in the structure.

[captlibre80]

Yes

I have the following structure in the navigator in this sscreenshot:

would this be causing the crashing problem?

If not, what else should I do to try to fix this?

[captlibre80]

FIXED somehow!

I think I chose a different level somehow and now it works?

[captlibre80]

Another question:

1. on the SAME LINE as the chapter with each page, how do I insert the page number to be on the right side and the chapter on the left side on the SAME LINE?

[Wanderer]

@captlibre80

Another question:

May I suggest to open another thread for that. This one is lon enough…