Document Opening Questions

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#1

I am new to LO, so forgive me if this is answered elsewhere…just point me to it (I couldn’t find anything on topic via search). To start, I have LO installed on MacOS 26.3.1 (Tahoe) and have LO 26.2.1.2 (AARCH64) installed, and similar version of LO installed on Windows 11. So far, I have been working exclusively from the MacOS installation.

First, is there a setting where I can have the Recent Documents pane show the documents in list format rather than as “bloated” icons? This is a setting common to both operating systems and all other similar applications I have used on both platforms, most notably MS Office.

Second, is there a setting I can make that will re-open a previously saved document (.ODT or .ODS) in the same configuration as when it was last saved? By that, I mean that the window dimensions are the same…it’s a pain in the arse to have to resize the window every time I re-open a document.

Thanks in advance for your help!

#2

→ Recent Documents

→ Writer window sizing

#3

Don’t launch LO from a generic icon. Use one which is associated with the Writer component so that LO opens in Writer. Then you have a submenu File>Recent Documents where the recently opened Writer documents are listed. Same for spreadsheets if you open in Calc.

Alternatively, you can untick File>Recent Documents>Current Module Only to list all documents, no matter their type (Writer, Calc, Impress, …).

#4

Thanks, I actually found the File>Recent Documents>Current Module Only already. My reference was to the navigation pane that opens with the LO “generic icon.” I actually wish to open LO this way, not with one of the specific modules, because I work back and forth between text documents, spreadsheets and CSV files regularly. I would prefer to see the list of recent documents as just that, a list, not a pane of icons.

#5

The area of the “Start Center” can’t do it.

A workaround:

  • Create any empty document (“Untitled”)
  • Use the menu item >File>Recent Documents> to get the recent files shown in a list.
  • Close the “dummy” document or leave it in the background and close it later.
#7

Hello,

New user.

How do I keep Writer from “attaching” to the upper left corner of my main screen on Win 11?

I use multiple monitors and I cannot move the writer doc to my other monitor.

Thanks in advance.

#8

@ecsL3 could you please start a new question.

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#6

Just remembered that I was interested in the handling of recent files lists about three years ago in pursuit of some older questions in this site.
I looked for a solution with support for sorting by different properties and more. Just for fun I wrote some user code for a spreadsheet document expected to always be loaded on start.

Using an example for reading properties from RegistryModifications.xcu by Andrew Pitonyak the main part was surprisingly simple (See raw code below. I do not use it myself.)
Completing the code to get exactly what you want may be less simple.

Function propertyValueFromConfiguration(pNodePath As String, pPropertyName As String) As Variant
propertyValueFromConfiguration = ":err:"
On Local Error Goto fail
Dim structNode, providingService
Dim arguments(0) As New com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue
Const providingServiceName = "com.sun.star.configuration.ConfigurationProvider"
Const accessNodeName       = "com.sun.star.configuration.ConfigurationAccess"
providingService           = createUnoService(providingServiceName)
arguments(0).Name  = "nodepath"
arguments(0).Value = pNodePath
structNode = providingService.createInstanceWithArguments(accessNodeName, arguments())
propertyValueFromConfiguration = structNode.getPropertyValue(pPropertyName)
fail:
End Function

Function urlFromPickListByOrdinal(Optional pOrdinal) As String
Dim preNodePath As String, nodePath As String
preNodePath = _
 "/org.openoffice.Office.Histories/Histories/org.openoffice.Office.Histories:" & _
 "HistoryInfo['PickList']/OrderList"
nodePath = preNodePath & "/" & (pOrdinal)
urlFromPickListByOrdinal = propertyValueFromConfiguration(nodePath, "HistoryItemRef")
End Function

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