Operation Manual

Document status – Allow to save document even when the document is not modified

Normally when a document has not been modified, the File > Save menu option and the Save

icon on the Standard toolbar are disabled and the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+S has no effect.

Select this option to allow documents to be saved even when they have not been modified.

Year (two digits)

Specifies how two-digit years are interpreted. For example, if the two-digit year is set to 1930,

and you enter a date of 1/1/30 or later into your document, the date is interpreted as 1/1/1930

or later. An “earlier” date is interpreted as being in the following century; that is, 1/1/20 is

interpreted as 1/1/2020.

Memory options

The options on the LibreOffice – Memory page control how LibreOffice uses your computer’s

memory and how much memory it requires. Before changing them, you may wish to consider the

following points:

• More memory can make LibreOffice faster and more convenient (for example, more undo

steps require more memory); but the trade-off is less memory available for other

applications and you could run out of memory altogether.

• If your documents contain a lot of objects such as images, or the objects are large,

LibreOffice’s performance may improve if you increase the memory for LibreOffice or the

memory per object. If you find that objects seem to disappear from a document that

contains a lot of them, increase the number of objects in the cache. (The objects are still in

the file even if you cannot see them on screen.)

Figure 15: Choosing Memory options for the LibreOffice applications

• To load the Quickstarter (an icon on the desktop or in the system tray) when you start your

computer, select the option near the bottom of the dialog. This makes LibreOffice start

faster; the trade-off is LibreOffice uses some memory even when not being used. This

option (called Enable systray quickstarter on Linux) is not available on Mac OS X or on

systems where the Quickstarter module has not been installed.

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