[libreoffice-users] Re: Startup with Calc on OSX

"James Wilde" <james.wilde@sunde-wilde.com> wrote in message 
news:571EB0C9-E52F-43F8-8CD1-28F930795EB1@sunde-wilde.com...
> On Feb 7, 2011, at 08:55 , Erich Neuwirth wrote:
>
> > I would like to immediately open Calc when I start LibreOffice on OSX
> > since I am using this component in most cases.
> > Is there a way of configuring LibreOffice that way on OSX?
>
> There is a way, Erich.  I learnt it about a year ago.  It's buried deep in 
> the menu system or maybe in the preferences.  I know because I applied it 
> immediately, and now, when Open Office or Libre Office start up, they show 
> me the splash screen and then go straight to a specific type of document, 
> in my case a particular Writer document.
>
> I needed to change the document recently, and asked about the method, 
> since I had not written it down nor saved the thread, but nobody seemed to 
> know.  The only thing they could come up with was to start LibO from the 
> command line, but I don't do that.  It's the same with a lot of good 
> ideas - you see them once and then they disappear, and no amount of 
> searching the archives will bring them out.  I suspect they are off-thread 
> asides which makes them hard to search for.
>
> Like the tip about using Cmd+Alt+Shift+V (I think it works with 
> Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V in Windows and Linux) to paste directly in the format of 
> the document you're pasting to, without going via the Paste Special 
> dialogue.  You can search the archives till you're blue in the face, but 
> you won't find that tip which I got from here (or maybe OOo), also about a 
> year ago.
>
> //James

I assume OSX has a facility that allows you to create a shortcut (Windows 
terminology) or link (Unix/Linux terminology). Simply create one, perhaps on 
your desktop, to the Calc program. On Windows this is "scalc.exe" and is in 
the "program" folder/directory within the OOo installation sub-tree. Then 
just run (double click?) the link/shortcut. On Windows there are several 
programs within OOo: soffice.exe, scalc.exe, swriter. exe etc. There's one 
for each type of document and then the generic "soffice.exe" which shows the 
menu of document types when you run it.

HTH

--
Harold Fuchs
London, England 



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