The AutoSave (also known as AutoRecovery) options can be found in two locations: under org.openoffice.Office.Recovery/AutoSave and under org.openoffice.Office.Common/Save/Document. The settings in org.openoffice.Office.Common are not used and are ignored by OpenOffice. Nonetheless, to be safe, it is recommended to set the options in both locations.
For example, to change the the AutoSave interval from 15 minutes to 5 minutes:
In org.openoffice.Office.Recovery/AutoSave
set TimeIntervall to 5
In org.openoffice.Office.Common/Save/Document
set AutoSaveTimeIntervall to 5
By default, OpenOffice saves documents in the OpenDocument format. Users can change the default file formats using the "Tools | Options | Load/Save | General" menu. The default formats can be locked down to the OpenDocument formats with the following settings:
In org.openoffice.Setup/Office/Factories/Factory['com.sun.star.text.TextDocument']
set ooSetupFactoryDefaultFilter to writer8 and mark the value as Final
In org.openoffice.Setup/Office/Factories/Factory['com.sun.star.sheet.SpreadsheetDocument']
set ooSetupFactoryDefaultFilter to calc8 and mark the value as Final
In org.openoffice.Setup/Office/Factories/Factory['com.sun.star.presentation.PresentationDocument']
set ooSetupFactoryDefaultFilter to impress8 and mark the value as Final
OpenOffice can also save files in Microsoft Office formats. To make these the default formats:
In org.openoffice.Setup/Office/Factories/Factory['com.sun.star.text.TextDocument']
change ooSetupFactoryDefaultFilter to MS Word 97 (enter exactly as shown)
In org.openoffice.Setup/Office/Factories/Factory['com.sun.star.sheet.SpreadsheetDocument']
change ooSetupFactoryDefaultFilter to MS Excel 97 (enter exactly as shown)
In org.openoffice.Setup/Office/Factories/Factory['com.sun.star.presentation.PresentationDocument']
change ooSetupFactoryDefaultFilter to MS PowerPoint 97 (enter exactly as shown)
Setting the default formats to a non-native format causes OpenOffice to display a warning dialog when a file is saved. To disable this warning:
In org.openoffice.Office.Common/Save/Document
set WarnAlienFormat to False
In OpenOffice, the File | Save As dialog has an option to save a document using a password. This option is only enabled for document formats that support a password. For formats that do not support a password, the "Save with password" option is grayed-out and disabled.
There is no single configuration setting that disables "Save with password" for all document formats, however, this option can be indirectly disabled by removing from Save As all formats that support a password.
The formats that support a password include the OpenDocument and OpenOffice.org 1.0 formats. To remove these formats from the Save As dialog, see Hiding or Disabling Document Formats.
The formats that do not support "Save with password" include the Microsoft Office formats (all versions), the StarOffice formats (all versions), Rich Text Format (RTF), HTML and Text formats. These formats can be left enabled.
OpenOffice supports a number of document formats, including the OpenDocument, Microsoft Office, StarOffice, HTML, RTF and text formats. Some formats can be both written and read, while some can only be written and some can only be read. The formats that can be read appear in the file chooser dialog when opening a document using the menu File | Open. The formats that can be written and read appear in the file chooser dialog when saving a document using the menu File | Save As. The formats that can only be written and not read appear in the file chooser dialog when exporting a document using the menu File | Export.
The various formats can be hidden or disabled as follows:
Under org.openoffice.TypeDetection.Filter/Filters, find the format you wish to hide or remove. The formats are named using their internal names, however, the internal names can be associated with their common names (the name that appears in the file dialogs) by examining the default values of the settings under the format's UIName.
After locating the format, open the Flags property, set it to Enabled, then:
- To hide the format in the File Open and Save As dialogs, add the flags NOTINFILEDIALOG and NOTINCHOOSER to the normal value (see below). Note: it is not possible to hide a format in only one of these two dialogs, Open or Save As. Setting these flags hides the format in both places.
- To disable the ability to write the format, remove the EXPORT flag from the normal value (see below). This will also remove the format from the File | Save As or File | Export dialog. If the format can still be read, then existing documents in this format can be opened, but the File | Save option will be disabled and the user will only be able to save in a different format using Save As or Export.
- To disable the ability to read the format, remove the IMPORT flag from the normal value (see below). This will also remove the format from the File | Open dialog. If the format can still be written and it is not hidden, it will appear in the File | Export dialog instead of the File | Save As dialog.
- To disable the format completely, leave the flags' Value blank.
A flag can be added or removed from the normal value as follows: Navigate to the Explain tab, highlight and copy the normal value, navigate to the Setting tab, paste into the Value field, then edit the Value to add or remove flags, including the # delimiters.
For example, to remove Microsoft Word 6.0 as a file save option:
In org.openoffice.TypeDetection.Filter/Filters/Filter['MS WinWord 6.0']
copy the normal value for Flags and then remove the EXPORT flag
Also note if the format being hidden or disabled is currently set to the default format, the default format must first be changed. See Default File Formats.
Several other options related to saving files can be found in OpenOffice under the menu "Tools | Options | Load/Save | General". The options not discussed the the prior pages, including Always Create Backup Copy, are located in org.openoffice.Office.Common/Save/Document.
To set Always Create Backup Copy:
In org.openoffice.Office.Common/Save/Document
set CreateBackup to True