Operation Manual

Figure 14: Setting general options for LibreOffice
Help – Tips
When Tips is active, one or two words will appear when you hold the mouse pointer over an
icon or field, without clicking.
Help – Extended tips
When Extended tips is active, a brief description of the function of a particular icon or menu
command or a field on a dialog appears when you hold the mouse pointer over that item.
Open/Save Dialogs – Use LibreOffice dialogs
To use the standard Open and Save dialogs for your operating system, deselect the Use
LibreOffice dialogs option. When this option is selected, the Open and Save dialogs
supplied with LibreOffice will be used. See Chapter 1, Introducing LibreOffice, for more about
the LibreOffice Open and Save dialogs. This book uses the LibreOffice Open and Save
dialogs in illustrations.
Document status – Printing sets “document modified” status
If this option is selected, then the next time you close the document after printing, the print
date is recorded in the document properties as a change and you will be prompted to save
the document again, even if you did not make any other changes.
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 button 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.
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