1*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 4*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<!--*********************************************************** 5*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * 6*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * distributed with this work for additional information 9*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * with the License. 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Select <emph>All Files (*.*)</emph> to display all files.</paragraph> 67*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id4651326" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="NEW">Cursor Position</paragraph> 68*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<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*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<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*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<list type="ordered"> 71*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 72*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<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*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 74*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</list> 75*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148453" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="17">Opening an Empty Document</paragraph> 76*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<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*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<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*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id0820200803501358" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">System File Dialogs or %PRODUCTNAME Dialogs</paragraph> 79*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<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*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<list type="unordered"> 81*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<listitem> 82*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<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*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</listitem> 84*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</list> 85*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<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*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id0820200803501453" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Opening Files from a Web Server</paragraph> 87*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<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*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<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*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<switch select="sys"> 90*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<case select="WIN"> 91*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<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*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</case> 93*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</switch> 94*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<section id="relatedtopics"> 95*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<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*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<embed href="text/shared/00/00000021.xhp#xmlformat"/> 97*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<embed href="text/shared/guide/ms_user.xhp#ms_user"/> 98*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</section> 99*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</body> 100*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</helpdocument> 101