At 01:56 16/02/2010 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
... as far as I could figure out so far, there is only ONE choice for a path to your private files ("my documents"). So, I made a directory for "OO files".
And you created "Writer" and "Calc" subdirectories in that directory? Or even something like "# Writer" and "# Calc" - so that they appear first in an alphabetical sort?
At 11:04 16/02/2010 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
I want to set a "default folder" for Writer/Calc.
Er, that's what you have. But I know you mean separate default folders for Writer and Calc.
That means. whenever I open or save a file, Writer/Calc would look in that particular folder for files (unless specified otherwise).
You cannot ask Writer or Calc to do this, since they don't really exist. Instead, OpenOffice is an integrated program: the only sense in which Writer, Calc, and so on exist is that OpenOffice is capable of creating and editing different types of document. When you go, in particular, to open a file in OpenOffice, it cannot know what type of file - text, spreadsheet, presentation - you might have in mind.
I can do that with Word, Lotus (very old!), Wordperfect, text editors etc. etc., just about every software I possess.
That's because all those products are individual programs: there is no way the problem could arise. Despite the fact that Word, Excel, etc. are marketed as Microsoft Office, they are still separate programs. Try using File | Open in Word to open an Excel spreadsheet. Then try using File | Open in OpenOffice - whilst editing a text ("Writer") document - to open a spreadsheet.
I fancy this doesn't help: sorry. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
