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Help Sections:
General
Writer
Impress
Math
Draw
Calc
Base
Basic

Options

This command opens a dialog for a customized program configuration.

All your settings will be automatically saved. To open an entry either double click this entry or click the plus sign. To collapse the entry, click the minus sign or double click the entry.

You will only see the entries that are applicable to the current document. If the current document is a text document, you will see the OpenOffice.org Writer entry, and so on for all modules of OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org Impress and OpenOffice.org Draw are treated as the same in this dialog. The common entries are always visible.

OpenOffice.org

Use this dialog to create general settings for working with OpenOffice.org. The information covers topics such as user data, saving, printing, paths to important files and directories, and color defaults.

Load/Save

Specifies general Load/Save settings.

Language Settings

Defines the properties for additional languages.

Internet

Specifies Internet settings.

OpenOffice.org Writer

These settings determine the way text documents that are created in OpenOffice.org are handled. It is also possible to define settings for the current text document.

OpenOffice.org Writer/Web

Defines the basic settings for OpenOffice.org documents in HTML format.

OpenOffice.org Calc

Defines various settings for spreadsheets, contents to be displayed, and the cursor direction after a cell entry. You can also define sorting lists, determine the number of decimal places and the settings for recording and highlighting changes.

OpenOffice.org Impress

Defines various settings for newly created presentation documents, such as the contents to be displayed, the measurement unit used, if and how grid alignment is carried out, and if notes and handouts are always printed.

OpenOffice.org Draw

Defines the global settings for drawing documents, including the contents to be displayed, the scale to be used, the grid alignment and the contents to be printed by default.

OpenOffice.org Math

Defines the print format and print options for all new formula documents. These options apply when you print a formula directly from OpenOffice.org Math.

Charts

Defines the general settings for charts.

OpenOffice.org Database

Defines the general settings for the data sources in OpenOffice.org.

Index

options, tools

defaults, options for customized program configuration

settings, customized program configuration

This help text is published from the OpenOffice-Help files under the Public Documentation License 1.0.

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