"James Wilde" <james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com> wrote in message
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On Feb 7, 2011, at 08:55 , Erich Neuwirth wrote:
I would like to immediately open Calc when I start LibreOffice on OSX
since I am using this component in most cases.
Is there a way of configuring LibreOffice that way on OSX?
There is a way, Erich. I learnt it about a year ago. It's buried deep in
the menu system or maybe in the preferences. I know because I applied it
immediately, and now, when Open Office or Libre Office start up, they show
me the splash screen and then go straight to a specific type of document,
in my case a particular Writer document.
I needed to change the document recently, and asked about the method,
since I had not written it down nor saved the thread, but nobody seemed to
know. The only thing they could come up with was to start LibO from the
command line, but I don't do that. It's the same with a lot of good
ideas - you see them once and then they disappear, and no amount of
searching the archives will bring them out. I suspect they are off-thread
asides which makes them hard to search for.
Like the tip about using Cmd+Alt+Shift+V (I think it works with
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V in Windows and Linux) to paste directly in the format of
the document you're pasting to, without going via the Paste Special
dialogue. You can search the archives till you're blue in the face, but
you won't find that tip which I got from here (or maybe OOo), also about a
year ago.
//James
I assume OSX has a facility that allows you to create a shortcut (Windows
terminology) or link (Unix/Linux terminology). Simply create one, perhaps on
your desktop, to the Calc program. On Windows this is "scalc.exe" and is in
the "program" folder/directory within the OOo installation sub-tree. Then
just run (double click?) the link/shortcut. On Windows there are several
programs within OOo: soffice.exe, scalc.exe, swriter. exe etc. There's one
for each type of document and then the generic "soffice.exe" which shows the
menu of document types when you run it.
HTH
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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