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Select <emph>All Files (*.*)</emph> to display all files.</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id4651326" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="NEW">Cursor Position</paragraph> 66<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> 67<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> 68<list type="ordered"> 69<listitem> 70<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> 71</listitem> 72</list> 73<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148453" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="17">Opening an Empty Document</paragraph> 74<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> 75<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> 76<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id0820200803501358" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">System File Dialogs or %PRODUCTNAME Dialogs</paragraph> 77<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> 78<list type="unordered"> 79<listitem> 80<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> 81</listitem> 82</list> 83<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> 84<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id0820200803501453" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Opening Files from a Web Server</paragraph> 85<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> 86<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> 87<switch select="sys"> 88<case select="WIN"> 89<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> 90</case> 91</switch> 92<section id="relatedtopics"> 93<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> 94<embed href="text/shared/00/00000021.xhp#xmlformat"/> 95<embed href="text/shared/guide/ms_user.xhp#ms_user"/> 96</section> 97</body> 98</helpdocument> 99