Start StarOffice with an empty document

MS Word^tm comes up with a new document and you can start typing. To be honest, I don't like this, but a lot of people do. For sure this behaviour is also possible using StarOffice. Add a parameter and StarOffice starts with an empty text, spreadsheet or whatever.

c:\Office51\soffice.exe private:factory/swriter

c:\Office51\soffice.exe private:factory/scalc

c:\Office51\soffice.exe private:factory/simpress

c:\Office51\soffice.exe private:factory/sdraw

c:\Office51\soffice.exe private:factory/swriter/GlobalDocument

c:\Office51\soffice.exe private:factory/swriter/web

c:\Office51\soffice.exe private:factory/frameset

c:\Office51\soffice.exe private:factory/application/sbase

c:\Office51\soffice.exe private:factory/smath

c:\Office51\soffice.exe private:factory/schart

c:\Office51\soffice.exe private:factory/simage

If you want to start StarOffice every time with such an empty document, change the link to StarOffice on your operating system desktop and add these parameter. If you use Windows select the StarOffice-icon, click the right mouse button and choose properties. Change the entry in destination e.g. to c:\Office51\soffice.exe private:factory/swriter.

Workaround for StarOffice 5.0-users

Due to a bug in StarOffice 5.0 the following steps are needed:

• Start StarOffice

• Create an empty text-document

• File|Template
  Name: Leer Category: Standard Button: OK

• Now create a plain text file that contains the following lines:

[InternetShortcut]
Title=Shortcut to leer.vor
URL=macro:documents.open("file:///c|/office50/template/leer.vor","","T")
Target=Browser

• Save it as c:\Office50\template\leer.vor.url beaware of the correct suffix. This is important.

• Start StarOffice with this file as parameter: c:\Office50\soffice.exe c:\Office50\template\leer.vor.url

Use these steps to start StarOffice 5.0 with a document type of your choice.

Author: Werner Roth Original page http://www.wernerroth.de/en/staroffice/tips

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