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In the General section, you can select default settings for saving documents, and can select default file formats.

Load

Load user-specific settings with the document

Loads the user-specific settings saved in a document with the document.

If Load user-specific settings with the document is not selected, the following user-specific settings still apply:

• Settings available in File - Print - Options,

• Name of Fax,

• Spacing options for paragraphs before text tables,

• Information about automatic updating for links, field functions and charts,

• Information about working with Asian character formats.

The following settings are always loaded with a document, whether or not this option is marked:

• Printer name,

• Data source linked to the document and its view.

Save

Saving Documents Automatically

Edit document properties before saving

Specifies that the Properties dialog will appear every time you select the Save As command.

Always create backup copy

Saves the previous version of a document as a backup copy whenever you save a document. Every time OpenOffice.org creates a backup copy, the previous backup copy is replaced. The backup copy gets the extension .BAK.

To change the location of the backup copy, choose Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Paths, and then enter a new path for the backup file.

Save AutoRecovery information every

Specifies that OpenOffice.org saves the information needed to restore all open documents in case of a crash. You can specify the saving time interval.

Minutes

Specifies the time interval in minutes for the automatic recovery option.

Size optimization for XML format (no pretty printing)

When saving the document, OpenOffice.org writes the XML data without indents and extra line breaks. This allows documents to be saved and opened more quickly, and the file size is smaller.

Warn when not saving in OpenDocument or default format

You can select to get a warning message when you save a document in a format that is not OpenDocument or that you did not set as default format in Tools - Options - Load/Save - General.

Save URLs relative to

This option allows you to select the default for relative addressing of URLs in the file system and on the Internet. Relative addressing is only possible if the source document and the referenced document are both on the same drive.

A relative address always starts from the directory in which the current document is located. In contrast, absolute addressing always starts from a root directory. The following table demonstrates the difference in syntax between relative and absolute referencing:

Examples	File system	Internet
relative	../images/img.jpg	../images/img.jpg
absolute	file:///c|/work/images/img.jpg	http://myserver.com/work/images/img.jpg

File System

Select this box for relative saving of URLs in the file system.

Internet

Select this box for relative saving of URLs in the Internet.

Standard file format

You can choose which file format will be applied as the default when saving documents of various document types. If you always exchange your documents with other persons who use Microsoft Office, for example, you may specify here that OpenOffice.org only uses the Microsoft Office file formats as a default.

Document type

Specifies the document type for which you want to define the default file format.

Always save as

Specifies how documents of the type selected on the left will always be saved as this file type. You may select another file type for the current document in the Save as dialog.

Index

saving, options

defaults,of saving

URL, saving absolute/relative paths

relative saving of URLs

absolute saving of URLs

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