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# Document

Fields are used to insert information about the current document, for example, file name, template, statistics, user data, date, and time.

To access this command...

Choose Insert - Field - More Fields - Document tab

To insert a field in your document, first select the field Type, then click in the Select list, to choose which information item should be inserted, then click Insert.

## Type

Lists the available field types.

## Select

Lists what information can be inserted for a selected field type.

### Available field Types and Select lists

Type | Select list
--- | ---
Author | Name or initials of current user (as entered in LibreOffice - Preferences Tools - Options - LibreOffice - User Data).
Date | Inserts the current date. You can insert the date as a fixed field - Date (fixed) - that does not change, or as a dynamic field - Date - that it is updated automatically. To manually update the Date field, press F9.
File name | Inserts the filename and/or the directory path of the current document, as well as the filename without extension.
Heading | Shows the heading number and/or the heading contents of a heading prior to the inserted field.
Page | Inserts the page number of the current, previous, or next page.
Paragraph Signature | Inserts a meta-data field with a digital signature for the paragraph. You must have a digital certificate to sign a paragraph.
Sender | Inserts fields containing user data. You can change the user-data that is displayed by choosing LibreOffice - Preferences Tools - Options - LibreOffice - User Data.
Statistics | Inserts document statistics, such as page and word counts, as a field. To view the statistics of a document, choose File - Properties, and then click the Statistics tab.
Templates | Inserts the filename, the filename without the file extension, the path, or the path and filename of the current template. You can also insert the Template name and Category of the current template.
Time | Inserts the current time. You can insert the time as a fixed field - Time (fixed) - that does not change, or as a dynamic field - Time - that it is updated automatically. To manually update the Time field, press F9.

To quickly insert a field from the Select list, double-click the field.

## Format

If a field is displaying a date, time or number, then Format is used to customize the appearance of the date, time, or number. Common formats are shown in the Format window, or click "Additional formats" to define a custom format.

When you click "Additional formats", the Number Format dialog opens, where you can define a custom format.

For type Heading, choose the format Heading number to display the heading number with the separator specified in Tools - Heading Numbering.

Choose Heading number without separator to display the heading number alone without the separator.

If the selected heading is not numbered, then the field is left blank.

For the HTML export and import of date and time fields, special LibreOffice formats are used.

### Fixed content

Inserts the field as static content, that is, the field cannot be updated.

### Up to level

Use this option with type Heading to specify which heading to display. The displayed heading is the first one before the field, whose outline level is equal to or less than the specified value.

### Offset

Enter the offset value that you want to apply to a page number field, for example "+1".

With an Offset value of 1, the field will display a number that is 1 more than the current page number, but only if a page with that number exists. On the last page of the document, this same field will be empty.

If you want to change the actual page number and not the displayed number, do not use the Offset value. To change page numbers, read the Page Numbers guide.

### Offset in days/minutes

Enter the offset that you want to apply to a date or time field.

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