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# General

Specifies general settings for text documents.

To access this command...

Open a text document, choose LibreOffice - Preferences Tools - Options - LibreOffice Writer - General.

## Update

### Update links when loading

Settings for automatic links updates stored in documents are ignored for security reasons. Link updates are always bounded by LibreOffice Security settings in LibreOffice - Preferences Tools - Options... - LibreOffice – Security.

#### Always

Always updates links while loading a document, and only if the document is in a trusted file location or the global security level is Low (Not recommended).

This setting is treated as On request unless either the global macro security level is set to Low in LibreOffice - Preferences Tools - Options... - LibreOffice - Security - Macro Security... - Security Level - Low (not recommended) or the document is located in a trusted place defined by LibreOffice - Preferences Tools - Options... - LibreOffice - Security - Macro Security... - Trusted Sources - Trusted File Locations.

#### On request

Updates links only on request while loading a document.

#### Never

Links are never updated while loading a document.

### Automatically

To update fields manually

#### Fields

The contents of all fields are updated automatically whenever the screen contents are displayed as new. Even with this box unchecked, some fields are updated each time a special condition takes place. The following table lists the fields that are updated without regard to this check box.

Condition | Automatically updated fields
--- | ---
Printing the document (also exporting as PDF) | Author, Sender, Heading, Date, Time, References, Last printed
Reloading the document | Author, Sender, Heading, Date, Time
Saving the document | File name, Statistics, Document number, Editing time, Modified
Editing the text line containing the field | Author, Sender, Heading, Date, Time
Manually changing a variable | Conditional text, Hidden text, Hidden paragraph, Variables, DDE field
Switching off "fixed content" | Author, Sender, all document information fields
Changing the page count | Page

#### Charts

Specifies whether to automatically update charts. Whenever a Writer table cell value changes and the cursor leaves that cell, the chart that displays the cell value is updated automatically.

## Settings

### Measurement unit

Specifies the unit of measurement for text documents.

### Tab stops

Specifies the spacing between the individual tab stops. The horizontal ruler displays the selected spacing.

### Enable char unit

When this setting is enabled, the measurement units of indents and spacing on Format - Paragraph - Indents & Spacing tab will be character (ch) and line.

### Use square page mode for text grid

When this setting is enabled, the text grid will look like square page. Square page is a kind of page layout which is used to train students to write articles in China and Japan.

## Word count

### Additional separators

Specifies the characters that are considered as word separators when counting words, in addition to spaces, tabs and line and paragraph breaks.

### Show standardised page count

Editors and publishers often define a “standard” page as containing a specified number of characters or words. Mark this field to allow quick calculation of the number of these pages.

### Characters per standardised page

Set the number of characters for the standardised page.