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General
Writer
Impress
Math
Draw
Calc
Base
Basic

General

Specifies the general settings for OpenOffice.org.

Year (two digits)

Defines a date range, within which the system recognizes a two-digit year.

In OpenOffice.org, years are indicated by four digits, so that the difference between 1/1/99 and 1/1/01 is two years. This Year (two digits) setting allows the user to define the years in which two-digit dates are added to 2000. To illustrate, if you specify a date of 1/1/30 or later, the entry "1/1/20" is recognized as 1/1/2020 instead of 1/1/1920.

Help

Specifies the behavior of the online help.

Tips

Displays the icon names and more bubble help information, as for example notes, and chapter names when you scroll through a document with chapters.

Extended tips

Displays a help text when you rest the cursor on an icon, a menu command, or a control on a dialog.

Help Agent

Specifies that the Help Agent will be displayed automatically in selected situations. Click the Help Agent window to see a Help page with information about the current context.

Reset Help Agent

If you have not opened the Help Agent for a particular situation three times in succession, but rather have closed it or let it close automatically, the Help Agent for this situation is not shown again.

Click Reset Help Agent to restore the default list of situations for which the Help Agent is displayed.

OpenOffice.org Help formatting

Style sheet

Choose the style of OpenOffice.org Help.

Open/Save dialogs

Use OpenOffice.org dialogs

Specifies whether OpenOffice.org dialogs are used to open and save documents. Otherwise the dialogs of the operating system are used.

When you open a file by an URL from the Windows file dialog, Windows will open a local copy of the file, located in the Internet Explorer cache. The OpenOffice.org file dialog opens the remote file.

The OpenOffice.org dialogs for opening and saving documents are described in OpenOffice.org Help.

Document status

Printing sets "document modified" status

Specifies whether the printing of the document counts as a modification. When this option is marked, the very next time the document is closed you are asked if the changes should be saved. The print date is then entered in the document properties as a change.

Index

opening, dialog settings

saving, dialog settings

default dialogs for opening/saving documents

years, 2-digits options

Help Agent,options

Help,style sheets of Help

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

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