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<helpdocument version="1.0">
<meta>
<topic id="textswriterguidefield_convertxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Converting a Field into Text</title>
<filename>/text/swriter/guide/field_convert.xhp</filename>
</topic>
<history>
<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
<lastedited date="2005-08-16T12:31:11">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited>
</history>
</meta>
<body>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154079"><bookmark_value>fields; converting into text</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>converting;fields, into text</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>replacing;fields, by text</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>changing;fields, into text</bookmark_value>
</bookmark>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154079" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><variable id="field_convert"><link href="text/swriter/guide/field_convert.xhp" name="Converting a Field into Text">Converting a Field into Text</link>
</variable></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149281" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">You can change a field to regular text, so that it is no longer updated. After you change a field to text, you cannot change the text back into a field.</paragraph>
<list type="ordered">
<listitem>
<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3155608" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">Select the field and choose <emph>Edit - Cut</emph>.</paragraph>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154238" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Choose <emph>Edit - Paste Special</emph>.</paragraph>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154262" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">Click "Unformatted text" in the<emph> Selection</emph> list, and then click<emph> OK</emph>.</paragraph>
</listitem>
</list>
<embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/>
<embed href="text/swriter/guide/fields.xhp#fields"/>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3157551" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11"><link href="text/shared/01/02070000.xhp" name="Paste Special">Paste Special</link></paragraph>
</body>
</helpdocument>