Manuel Barros wrote:
Hello everybody. Dear user helpers, let's suppose that I use separate main
files for odt and ods works and that I have been working on an xxx.ods file
and then I have closed OOo application. If then I need to work on an xxx.odt
file, when trying to open it, the files that will appear to be chosen will
not be odt files but ods files, because ods was the type of file I have been
working previously. Although I have separate files where I keep ods files
and odt files, I think this happens because this is the philosophy of OOo
itself, as I am not able to tell OOo writer to look for the odt main file
when opening writer application. I think this is the problem that happens
often with people who comes from Microsoft, because there you can "inform"
Word program where to look for Word files. I know a little of OOo, and if
someone tells me I am wrong and that there is a way to solve this matter, I
would became a more happy user of OOo. Regards. Manuel Barros
It sounds as if you have different folders for different types of files,
which can be helpful, but it means that you may not be in the
appropriate folder when you start one of the OOo applications, so the
File > Open dialog will not be likely to show the file you want. I don't
know what the defaults are in your environment (and you didn't say what
that was), but in my Vista Home Premium system with OOo 3.1.1, it always
defaults to "all files" in the most recent folder it saved in. So if
that folder was the one you use for spreadsheets, you'll see all the
files in that folder -- in other words, only spreadsheets. If your
folders were organized by, say, project, with files of all types in the
same folder, you could restrict the list to only the text documents
using the File Types options -- but you'd still see the ones related to
your most recent project, unless you browsed to the folder for a
different project. Most people find that kind of default very useful,
but of course no default will suit everybody.
The bottom line is that you'll need to do one of the following:
* From your desktop, or Windows Explorer (or the equivalent in your
system), navigate to the appropriate folder. Double-click the file
you want to work on; it will open in the OOo application
associated with that filetype.
* Open the OOo application you want, then use File > Open to browse
to the appropriate folder. If that has mixed filetypes, and a lot
of files, it may be useful to then restrict the file list by using
the File Types selection. Then select the file you want and open it.
* If the file you want is one you've worked with recently, look in
the File > Recent Files list. That will have the most recent
files, whatever their types, and selecting one wil take you to the
appropriate part of OOo.
Hope this is helpful.
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