Set default save location for all new documents

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nonplusultra
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Set default save location for all new documents

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 Edit: Split from How do I change the default Save/Save As folder? since this question is not relevant to that topic. 
I have the opposite problem - I want to PERMANENTLY FIX the default save location for all new documents I create, unless and except wehen I manually specify a different location, and even then, to have it thereafter (for all subsequent new documents I create) automatically revert to the same default save-location:

As it is now, the save-to directory always automatically defaults to the last directory I was active in, so that if I open and edit an existing document in a particular directory, then every subsequent new document I create automatically gets saved to that directory instead, until I notice it and manually change it!

How to set Open Office to [of course continue to keep/save existing documents in the directory in which I open them in, but to otherwise] ALWAYS default to save NEWLY created documents to: User Name/Documents - unless I specifically select a different location, but then only when I manually select a different location, and only for that one time; and to otherwise still continue to always, automatically revert to the fixed, default save directory for every subsequent NEW document which I create!

Thanks if anyone can help!
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Re: Set default save location for all new documents

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nonplusultra wrote: the save-to directory always automatically defaults to the last directory I was active in
That's how it works and it cannot be changed.
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Re: Set default save location for all new documents

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Try to check-in the option "use OpenOffice Dialogs". The behavior of it is different than the Dialog of the Windows.
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The default path for new documents always will be the directory given in the Path settings for MyDocuments.
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