Getting Started Guide

You can also open an existing document in one of the following ways.
• Choose File > Open...
• Click the Open button on the main toolbar.
• Press Control+O on the keyboard.
In each case, the Open dialog appears. Select the file you want, and then click Open.
If a document is already open in OOo, the second document opens in a new window.
In the Open dialog, you can reduce the list of files by selecting the type of file you are
looking for. For example, if you choose Text documents as the file type, you will only
see documents Writer can open (including .odt, .doc, .txt); if you choose
Spreadsheets, you will see .ods, .xsl, and other files that Calc opens.
You can also open an existing document that is in an OpenDocument format by
double-clicking on the file’s icon on the desktop or in a file manager such as Windows
Explorer.
If you have associated Microsoft Office file formats with OOo, you can also open
these files by double-clicking on them.
Note
Under Microsoft Windows you can use either the OOo Open and Save As
dialogs or the ones provided by Microsoft Windows. See “Using the
Open and Save As dialogs” on page 25.
Saving a document
To save a new document, do one of the following:
• Press Control+S.
• Choose File > Save from the menu bar.
• Click the Save button on the main toolbar.
When the Save As dialog appears, enter the file name, verify the file type (if
applicable), and click Save.
To save an open document with the current file name, choose File > Save. This will
overwrite the last saved state of the file.
Password protection
To protect an entire document from being viewable without a password, use the
option on the Save As dialog to enter a password.
1) On the Save As dialog, select the Save with password option, and then click
Save. You will receive a prompt (Figure 11).
2) Type the same password in both fields, and then click OK. If the passwords
match, the document is saved password protected. If the passwords do not
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