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See the License for the 20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21 * under the License. 22 * 23 ***********************************************************--> 24 25 26 27 28<meta> 29<topic id="textsharedguidedoc_openxml" indexer="include"> 30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Opening Documents</title> 31<filename>/text/shared/guide/doc_open.xhp</filename> 32</topic> 33</meta> 34<body> 35<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147834"><bookmark_value>opening; documents</bookmark_value> 36<bookmark_value>documents; opening</bookmark_value> 37<bookmark_value>files; opening</bookmark_value> 38<bookmark_value>loading; documents</bookmark_value> 39<bookmark_value>spreadsheets;creating/opening</bookmark_value> 40<bookmark_value>presentations;creating/opening</bookmark_value> 41<bookmark_value>FTP; opening documents</bookmark_value> 42<bookmark_value>new documents</bookmark_value> 43<bookmark_value>empty documents</bookmark_value> 44<bookmark_value>text documents;creating/opening</bookmark_value> 45<bookmark_value>drawings; creating/opening</bookmark_value> 46<bookmark_value>HTML documents; new</bookmark_value> 47<bookmark_value>formulas; new</bookmark_value> 48</bookmark><comment>mw changed "tables;..." to "spreadsheets;..."</comment><comment>mw made one entry out of two for "spreadsheets;", "presentations;" and "text (documents);"</comment> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147834" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><variable id="doc_open"><link href="text/shared/guide/doc_open.xhp" name="Opening Documents">Opening Documents</link> 50</variable></paragraph> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147653" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="12">Opening an existing document</paragraph> 52<list type="ordered"> 53<listitem> 54<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149398" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="2">Do one of the following:</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN107A9" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Choose <item type="menuitem">File - Open</item> 56</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN107AF" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click the <emph>Open</emph> icon on the Standard toolbar</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN107B2" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Press <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Command</caseinline><defaultinline>Ctrl</defaultinline></switchinline>+O </paragraph> 59<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150275" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">The <link href="text/shared/01/01020000.xhp" name="Open">Open</link> dialog appears.</paragraph> 60</listitem> 61<listitem> 62<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149164" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="4">Select the file you want to open and click <emph>Open</emph>.</paragraph> 63</listitem> 64</list> 65<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149234" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="CHG" oldref="13">Restrict Files to Display</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150985" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="14">To restrict the display of files in the <emph>Open</emph> dialog to a certain type select the corresponding <emph>File type</emph> from the list. Select <emph>All Files (*.*)</emph> to display all files.</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id4651326" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="NEW">Cursor Position</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id5509201" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In general, all documents open with the cursor at the start of the document. </paragraph> 69<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id6594744" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">One exception appears when the author of a Writer text document saves and reopens a document: The cursor will be at the same position where it has been when the document was saved. This only works when the name of the author was entered in <emph><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</caseinline><defaultinline>Tools - Options</defaultinline></switchinline> - %PRODUCTNAME - User Data</emph>.</paragraph> 70<list type="ordered"> 71<listitem> 72<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3422650" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Press Shift+F5 to set the cursor to the last saved position.</paragraph> 73</listitem> 74</list> 75<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148453" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="17">Opening an Empty Document</paragraph> 76<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147287" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="19">Click the <emph>New</emph> icon on the Standard bar or choose <emph>File - New</emph>. This opens a document of the document type specified.</paragraph> 77<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153092" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="20">If you click the arrow next to the <emph>New</emph> icon, a submenu opens in which you can select another document type.</paragraph> 78<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id0820200803501358" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">System File Dialogs or %PRODUCTNAME Dialogs</paragraph> 79<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0820200803501356" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">On most operating systems, you can choose to use the system file dialogs or %PRODUCTNAME dialogs.</paragraph> 80<list type="unordered"> 81<listitem> 82<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0820200803501429" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Choose <item type="menuitem"><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</caseinline><defaultinline>Tools - Options</defaultinline></switchinline> - %PRODUCTNAME - General</item> to switch the type of open/save dialogs.</paragraph> 83</listitem> 84</list> 85<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0820200803501449" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">The %PRODUCTNAME dialogs support file download and upload using secure https connections.</paragraph> 86<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id0820200803501453" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Opening Files from a Web Server</paragraph> 87<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153126" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="9">You can enter a URL in the <emph>File name</emph> box of the <emph>Open</emph> dialogs. The URL must start with file:/// or ftp:// or http://. </paragraph> 88<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0820200803501548" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">If you use the %PRODUCTNAME dialog, you can use the https:// prefix for a secure connection, and you can save a document on the web server.</paragraph> 89<switch select="sys"> 90<case select="WIN"> 91<paragraph role="warning" id="par_idN107C4" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">When you open a file by a URL from the Windows file dialog, Windows will open a local copy of the file, located in the Internet Explorer cache. The %PRODUCTNAME file dialog opens a local copy of the file in the system's temp folder.</paragraph> 92</case> 93</switch> 94<section id="relatedtopics"> 95<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148616" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5"><link href="text/shared/01/01020000.xhp" name="File - Open">File - Open</link></paragraph> 96<embed href="text/shared/00/00000021.xhp#xmlformat"/> 97<embed href="text/shared/guide/ms_user.xhp#ms_user"/> 98</section> 99</body> 100</helpdocument> 101