Calc Guide

Choosing options for loading and saving documents
You can set the Load/Save options to suit the way you work. This chapter describes
only a few of the options, those more relevant to working with Calc. See Chapter 2
(Setting Up OpenOffice.org) in the Getting Started guide for a description of the
other options.
If the Options dialog is not already open, click Tools > Options. Click the + sign to
the left of Load/Save to display the list of load/save options pages.
Figure 334: Load/Save options
General Load/Save options
Most of the choices on the Load/Save – General page are familiar to users of other
office suites. Those specific to OpenOffice.org are in the Default file format and ODF
settings section.
Figure 335: Choosing Load and Save options
ODF format version
OpenOffice.org by default saves documents in OpenDocument Format (ODF)
version 1.2 Extended. While this allows for improved functionality, there may be
backwards compatibility issues. When a file saved in ODF 1.2 Extended is opened
in an earlier version of OpenOffice.org (using ODF 1.0/1.1), some of the advanced
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