Extended information in the title bar

This is a “fake” question. I only post it to have a place for an enhanced answer.

Questions related to this one, but specialised in some way, were asked repeatedly, and I even posted a strictly reduced piece of code in at least one case. But…

(There is a closely related post here. This is just information. The attachment there is the same as that to the solution below.)

Liking full and clear information and very much disliking the ways MS made all the world accept suppressed information to be the standard,
I wrote a few years ago a couple of Basic modules allowing me to see “FULL” information about my documents in the title bar. Like everything I post, it is “public domain” basically.

Your problem is the fact that a solution only can be provided based on custom code, that you need to put the code in the right places yourself, and that you also need to use the >Tools>Customise options to assign a few event handlers for your local Ofice (stored to the user profile, not to an open document) provided as macros.

All the additionally needed info and the code you find in the attachment.
I use the solution myself daily, and tested it with many LibO versions from V3.3 up to V7.6.0.0.alpha.
ExtendedInformationInTitlebar.ods (21.3 KB)
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There is a reworked (enhanced) version of the “manual”. For details see this post on a different forum.
The new download also offered there is
ExtendedInformationInTitlebarReworked.ods (90.2 KB).
Comments welcome.
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