Opening default filetypes

[rpark01]

When I do a File, Open, the default filetype = "All Files (*.*)"
How can I change this to look for a specific type?
Writer = either *.DOC or text files
Calc = *.XLS or spreadsheets
etc

[thomasjk]

Try clicking on the drop down arrow to the right in the dialog. At the top of the list click on spreadsheets or text files etc.

[acknak]

Right, you can change it yourself, but you have to change it every time you open a file, there's no way to make the File > Open dialog show *.doc files by default.

The reason for that is that any OOo application can open any type of file. You can be running Calc, and use FIle > Open to open a Writer file. OOo gives no preference to working in one type of file.

It's a little bit different way of thinking, but I find that I'm constantly working with different types of document, and if the open dialog were to default to a specific type of file, it would actually get in my way.

We've discussed this a number of times and there are some alternative ways to open files that can help, but in the end it's a personal choice as to what works best.