From: Caolan McNamara (caolan at domain csn.ul.ie)
Date: Thu 21 Jun 2001 - 13:50:32 IST
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:22:02PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> I've just had to work on updating a document in Star Office. I had a number
> of older versions of the document available and I encountered an oddity in
> the way SO titles the individual document windows. If the files are in
> Microsoft Word format, as some of them are, the window title is the first
> sentence in the document - reasonable, except that several had the same
> first sentence (same document, after all) so it was awkward to select a
> particular version.
>
> OTOH if the document was in Star Writer format, the window title was the
> name of the document. At least that way it's unambiguous as to which
> document window is which. Why the inconsistency in window titling ? Is there
> any way of telling SO what to use as a window title ?
The name placed in the title bar is the Document Title, as set in the
document properties in file->properties->description. If there is no
title set writer defaults to displaying the filename. Microsoft has a
similar properties for documents feature, file->properties->summary, on
importing word documents we convert its properties to our own. And take
the title if set.
Now it just so happens that when ms word saves a document, and the title
property is not set then rather than leaving the title property blank,
it will by default put in the first line of text from the document,
under the assumption that that is likely to be the title. So there you
go :-), you can change writers titlebar by changing the document title
property.
If you think putting both the filename and the title property in the
title bar would be a good idea, you could reopen this
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=647
C.
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