General

In the General section, you can select default settings for saving documents.

Load

Load User Specific Settings with the Document

Loads the user-specific settings saved in a document with the document.

If Load user-specific settings with the document is not selected, the following user-specific settings still apply:

Settings available in File - Print - Options: name of Fax, spacing options for paragraphs before text tables, information about automatic updating for links, field functions and charts, information about working with Asian character formats.

The following settings are always loaded with a document, whether or not this option is marked:

Printer name, Data source linked to the document and its view.

Save

Saving Documents Automatically.

Edit Document Properties Before Saving

Specifies that the Properties dialog will appear every time you select the Save As command.

Always Create Backup Copy

Saves the previous version of a document as a backup copy whenever you save a document. Every time StarOffice creates a backup copy, the previous backup copy is replaced. By default, StarOffice saves the backup copy (with the extension *.BAK) in the StarOffice user folder. To change the location of the backup copy, choose Tools - Options - StarOffice - Paths, and then enter a new path for the backup file.

AutoSave

Specifies that StarOffice automatically saves the current document at the selected time interval.

AutoSave Time Interval
Specifies the time interval in minutes for the automatic save option.

Prompt to Save

If you select the Prompt to save option, a security query will appear before the document is saved.

Size Optimization for XML Format (Pretty Printing Not Allowed)
When saving the document, StarOffice writes the XML data without indents and extra line breaks. This allows documents to be saved and opened more quickly, and the file size is smaller. .

Save URLs Relative To

Allows you to select the default for relative addressing of URLs in the file system and on the Internet. Relative addressing is only possible if the source document and the referenced document are both on the same drive. A relative address always starts from the directory in which the current document is located. In contrast, absolute addressing always starts from a root directory. The following table demonstrates the difference in syntax between relative and absolute referencing:

Examples
Relative
../images/img.jpg
../images/img.jpg
Absolute
file:///c:/work/images/img.jpg
http://myserver.com/work/images/img.jpg.

File System

Specifies whether to use relative saving of URLs in the file system.

Internet

Specifies whether to use relative saving of URLs in the Internet.

Standard File Format

Specify which file format will be applied as the default when saving documents of various document types. If you always exchange your documents with other persons who use Microsoft Office, for example, you may specify here that StarOffice only uses the Microsoft Office file formats as a default.

Filter Warnings

When the User tries to Set a Third-Party Filter as the Default Filter in the Tools > Options menu - Display a Warning

If true, displays a warning when a user tries to set a third party filter as the default filter for a particular document type in the Tools > Options menu.

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