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I want Calc to open to my XLS folder, Writer to my Word folder and Impress to my PPT folder.

How do I do that?

Thank you.

The MS Word, the Excel, and the Powerpoint are standalone applications with standalone settings.

The Apache OpenOffice (and the LibreOffice) Writer, Calc and the Impress are/is one integrated application with common settings.

You can write your own macro to open and save document files into a specific directory based on the application name.

Thx
'You can write your own macro to open and save document files into a specific directory based on the application name.'

Maybe YOU can, lol. I am macro illiterate. I cab do most of the functions, but that's about it.

OpenOffice 3.1 on Windows Vista / NeoOffice 2.2.3 with MacOS 10.4 / OpenOffice 2.4 on Ubuntu 9.04

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Depending on the operating system used, the answer will differ.

Generally speaking, all you need to do is associate the extension with the software (in this case, soffice program).

Bidouille wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 9:14 am Generally speaking, all you need to do is associate the extension with the software (in this case, soffice program).

As I understand, the issue here is not the file association but to tell AOO that if Writer is launched, then the Open dialog should be automatically go to a specific folder where OP puts all his text files. Same with Calc with a folder where are all the spreadsheets files. A kind of Home place but specific to each application.

Hagar Delest wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 11:20 am

Bidouille wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 9:14 am Generally speaking, all you need to do is associate the extension with the software (in this case, soffice program).

As I understand, the issue here is not the file association but to tell AOO that if Writer is launched, then the Open dialog should be automatically go to a specific folder where OP puts all his text files. Same with Calc with a folder where are all the spreadsheets files. A kind of Home place but specific to each application.

Thank you, but I have no idea how to do this. Has someone created a macro template for this?