LibreOffice 7.2.2.2 on MacOS Ventura 13.1
Is it possible to create a direct link/icon on the Desktop that opens Writer directly — rather than opening the LibreOffice app and then opening Writer?
Yes, it is not a big deal, but it would be nice.
Thank you.,
Don’t know MacOS much, but if you’d put your default (empty?) template for writer on your desktop it should open writer directly…
That works. Thank you.
For other Mac LibreOffice users, here’s what I did:
Open LibreOffice, then click on Writer.
Save to the Desktop the empty page that appears. I named it “Writer”
Drag that icon to the Dock. Because it’s a file not an app, that icon will have to be at the far right of the Dock or the bottom of the Dock, depending on where your Dock is placed (screen bottom or screen side)
Then, clicking on that icon opens a blank Writer page. (You will want to name/save that page differently than the icon you’ve place on the Dock, so that clicking on the icon in the Dock continues to open a blank page.)
Thanks again to Wanderer.
Put your default (empty?) template on the desktop (as I wrote above).
If you didn’t only saved the file, but used SaveAs and saved as Template .ott (instead of .odt) this would come by default, as Templates open as Unnamed1.odt Unnamed2.odt (depending on your language settings) and then ask at first save for a name.
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(Edited for better readability of the “selected answer”)
Brilliant.
A shortcut to start Writer should call LibreOffice executable using the --writer command line parameter.
Of course, using a template, as @Wanderer suggests, is also a nice (maybe a better) solution.
However, both would only be useful in case user only uses one type of Writer documents. Start Center allows one to easily access multiple templates, so whenever one regularly creates many different types of documents (mails, essays, whatever) - there would be no upsides in starting straight into Writer with some default document.