Libre Office 5.0.6.3 on Windows 7 When doing Save As or Open, I want to be able to see all the filenames and file extensions which that Libre Office subprogram can open. For Writer, I want to see docx and other files. For Calc, I want to see xlsx files and so forth. For Draw, I want to see .pdf, .gif, .jpg, etc. It's a big pain to want to choose a filename that's not already being used and I have to go each time go into a file manager to see the files that are really there in the folder, then go back into the appropriate window of LibreOffice. Thanks.
In the Open dialog there is a dropdown next to File name where you can restrict files types supported by the different LibreOffice applications. I'm not sure I understand the importance of this during Save As. In your use case there could be files with different formats that are supposed to have unique names not considering the extension?
Reply I received in e-mail (reporter could not log in again with their user): "Right but I don't want to restrict it to one. I want to see more than one. When I'm in Writer, I want to be able to see all the files which are word document type files Writer could open - ie. docx, doc, etc. I don't want to only see odt files because then I can't just see all the editable files in there. Right now, with Writer doing what it does, from Open I can't see all the files and from Save As, I can't see what doc or docx files are already in there so that I give the file a unique name instead of the same name with an odt extension. If I happen to give it the same name as an old docx or doc file, then it will look to me later like I resaved the same file in LibreOffice and I will accidentally delete the corresponding doc or docx file when it is not the same file and has been erroneously been given the same error name. That creates problems for people like me who have a billion doc and docx files and are gradually re-creating some of them to odt files when they get updated. We are going to want to get rid of the redundant old versions of the files. I want Writer to be able to be set so it will show all word document type files which Writer is capable of understanding and opening. Similarly, I want Calc to be able to be set so it will show all spreadsheet document type files which Calc is capable of understanding and opening. Either that, or I want it to be able to just show me ALL the filenames with all the extensions so I have the opportunity to open whichever ones I want without going into a file manager every time." As I mentioned earlier, in Open dialog the dropdown next to the file name lets you restrict shown files to types that can be opened by certain applications (Text documents, Spreadsheets etc.). Regarding saving, that is a valid point. However, it needs to be considered that if an entry with multiple types are selected in "Save as type" dropdown, then saving is a bit tricky, since the type has to be determined based on the extension, and it has to be thought of what should happen if no extension, or an invalid extension is given. All in all, setting to NEW, since it is a reasonable enhancement request.
Actually, in Linux in Save/Save As dialog there is already an All Formats entry in the file types selection, which displays file types that can be opened with the current application, so this report can be classified as a bug. This might be simple enough to be an easy hack, adding needsDevEval keyword for a dev to evaluate.
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