Hi, sorry for top posting. I think that you can probably override this function. Have you tried going into tools > options and poking around in there? That's where I would look.
-----Original Message----- From: Steve McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Jun 30, 2005 11:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [discuss] Opening and saving files in OpenOffice I use OpenOffice all the time and, despite its quirks, like it a lot. But one feature that constantly bugs me is the default location for finding files to open or save, which as far as I can tell, is the last place I did that operation (regardless of Office application). Like (I suspect) many of your users, I create lots of documents on many topics, and I organize them by context. I teach, prepare lectures and exams, write papers, give talks, compose letters, etc., and I save all these files in different directories. That pretty much guarantees that OpenOffice will unerringly go to the wrong directory by default when I open or save a document. I guess this is a bug-compatible throwback to the convention used by MS Office, but some features just shouldn't be emulated! Can I suggest that you at least provide the option of doing what emacs and many other text editors do -- choose as the default directory the one associated with the document in the currently active window (the window from which the open/save request came). For just about everything I do, this would be a much more likely place to start a search, and it would at the very least do away with the randomness of starting in the directory of whatever project I happened to work on yesterday or last week. Your configuration pages contain huge numbers of much *much* less useful options. Please consider adding this one. Steve McMillan Professor of Physics Drexel University Philadelphia, PA, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
