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  38 <topic id="textsharedguidedoc_openxml" indexer="include">
  39 <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Opening Documents</title>
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  44 <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147834"><bookmark_value>opening; documents</bookmark_value>
  45 <bookmark_value>documents; opening</bookmark_value>
  46 <bookmark_value>files; opening</bookmark_value>
  47 <bookmark_value>loading; documents</bookmark_value>
  48 <bookmark_value>spreadsheets;creating/opening</bookmark_value>
  49 <bookmark_value>presentations;creating/opening</bookmark_value>
  50 <bookmark_value>FTP; opening documents</bookmark_value>
  51 <bookmark_value>new documents</bookmark_value>
  52 <bookmark_value>empty documents</bookmark_value>
  53 <bookmark_value>text documents;creating/opening</bookmark_value>
  54 <bookmark_value>drawings; creating/opening</bookmark_value>
  55 <bookmark_value>HTML documents; new</bookmark_value>
  56 <bookmark_value>formulas; new</bookmark_value>
  57 </bookmark><comment>mw changed "tables;..." to "spreadsheets;..."</comment><comment>mw made one entry out of two for "spreadsheets;", "presentations;" and "text (documents);"</comment>
  58 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147834" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><variable id="doc_open"><link href="text/shared/guide/doc_open.xhp" name="Opening Documents">Opening Documents</link>
  59 </variable></paragraph>
  60 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147653" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="12">Opening an existing document</paragraph>
  61 <list type="ordered">
  62 <listitem>
  63 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149398" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="2">Do one of the following:</paragraph>
  64 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN107A9" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Choose <item type="menuitem">File - Open</item>
  65 </paragraph>
  66 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN107AF" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click the <emph>Open</emph> icon on the Standard toolbar</paragraph>
  67 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_idN107B2" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Press <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Command</caseinline><defaultinline>Ctrl</defaultinline></switchinline>+O </paragraph>
  68 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150275" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">The <link href="text/shared/01/01020000.xhp" name="Open">Open</link> dialog appears.</paragraph>
  69 </listitem>
  70 <listitem>
  71 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149164" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="4">Select the file you want to open and click <emph>Open</emph>.</paragraph>
  72 </listitem>
  73 </list>
  74 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149234" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="CHG" oldref="13">Restrict Files to Display</paragraph>
  75 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150985" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="14">To restrict the display of files in the <emph>Open</emph> dialog to a certain type select the corresponding <emph>File type</emph> from the list. Select <emph>All Files (*.*)</emph> to display all files.</paragraph>
  76 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id4651326" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="NEW">Cursor Position</paragraph>
  77 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id5509201" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In general, all documents open with the cursor at the start of the document. </paragraph>
  78 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id6594744" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">One exception appears when the author of a Writer text document saves and reopens a document: The cursor will be at the same position where it has been when the document was saved. This only works when the name of the author was entered in <emph>Tools - Options - %PRODUCTNAME - User Data</emph>.</paragraph>
  79 <list type="ordered">
  80 <listitem>
  81 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3422650" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Press Shift+F5 to set the cursor to the last saved position.</paragraph>
  82 </listitem>
  83 </list>
  84 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148453" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="17">Opening an Empty Document</paragraph>
  85 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147287" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="19">Click the <emph>New</emph> icon on the Standard bar or choose <emph>File - New</emph>. This opens a document of the document type specified.</paragraph>
  86 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153092" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="20">If you click the arrow next to the <emph>New</emph> icon, a submenu opens in which you can select another document type.</paragraph>
  87 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id0820200803501358" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">System File Dialogs or %PRODUCTNAME Dialogs</paragraph>
  88 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0820200803501356" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">On most operating systems, you can choose to use the system file dialogs or %PRODUCTNAME dialogs.</paragraph>
  89 <list type="unordered">
  90 <listitem>
  91 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0820200803501429" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Choose <item type="menuitem">Tools - Options - %PRODUCTNAME - General</item> to switch the type of open/save dialogs.</paragraph>
  92 </listitem>
  93 </list>
  94 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0820200803501449" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">The %PRODUCTNAME dialogs support file download and upload using secure https connections.</paragraph>
  95 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id0820200803501453" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Opening Files from a Web Server</paragraph>
  96 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153126" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="9">You can enter a URL in the <emph>File name</emph> box of the <emph>Open</emph> dialogs. The URL must start with file:/// or ftp:// or http://. </paragraph>
  97 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id0820200803501548" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">If you use the %PRODUCTNAME dialog, you can use the https:// prefix for a secure connection, and you can save a document on the web server.</paragraph>
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 100 <paragraph role="warning" id="par_idN107C4" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">When you open a file by a URL from the Windows file dialog, Windows will open a local copy of the file, located in the Internet Explorer cache. The %PRODUCTNAME file dialog opens a local copy of the file in the system's temp folder.</paragraph>
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