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a question about MS Office - I use MS Office in the office - Libreoffice @home:

and believe me: i am a true fan of LibreOffice - i love it!!! - this thread wants to clear some things that i encountered - due the comparison of the both programm-packges: MS-Office vs Libreoffice: - especially the MRU - Most Recent Used


I noticed that the MS-Office only lists the documents from a current module in the MRU (Most Recently Used) list - so Word then lists Word - Excel then Excel but - it doesn't work "Across types". If this observation is correct - do you make it too?

Things are different with LibreOffie:

The MRU list is different there:

So - I like the use of the “Recently Used” function to open lists, which focuses on documents that also fit the program well (as an example: Calc then lists spreadsheets, Writer lists text documents). But there is more - and further_
What's even better for me is that when I open Calc and have a Writer window open somewhere on my computer, the MRU list contains both (!!!) types of documents, with the emphasis on the documents (Calc - spreadsheets , Writer – Text).

Question: Is my observation regarding the MRU practice in MicroSoft Office correct - my experience with Word has always been that only documents of the same type are included in the list -

Word - lists Word
Excel - only brings Excel into the MRU list

I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

The Excel ad Word are individual softwares. There is not any common part of them.

The LibreOffice is an intergated office suite. Only one executable exists: the soffice.bin. The Calc.exe and the Writer.exe will launch same "soffice "software with different settings and parameters. Therefore there are many (a lot of) common features and functions in the LibreOffice suite. One of them is the Recent Documents list. It is same for all of the applications: for the Writer, for the Calc, for the Draw, for the Impress, and for the Formula editor.

IF you can get the Recent List by a macro, then you will able filter the list to the desired file type, for example for the spreadsheet file types: .csv .ods, ots, xls, xla, xlsx, xlsm ... etc... to a new, custom list.

LibreOffice is one application opening all types of office documents. Nevertheless, the latest version introduced the MRU by component. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Rel ... _/_General