Have you use the Load URL options usually can be used as an extended Recent
files list?
Are you on a windows or Linux machine? In any event both usually have powerful
files finder. If you use gnome for example and click on open, it will send you
to your preset directory (usually home) which you can modify from the tools >
options > general > path option.
Then open the file manager and click on Ctrl-L and you would be able to get to
your document by typing the rest of the path.
Quoting Steve McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Yes, of course I looked there. I didn't find anything useful.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
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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
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