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Re: Use of "intuitive" file sorting in LibreOffice open/save dialogs

Libreoffice in Arch will display differently folks, see attached.
Regards
Eric Brackenbury

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 2:52 PM nashjc-ncf <nashjc [ at ] ncf [ dot ] ca> wrote:

> Since it took me a while to find the fix, I'll mention that LibreOffice
> defaults to copying
> Microsoft Windows "intuitive numerical sorting" of filenames.
>
> Thus  197701File is placed AFTER 1977File and 1982File and not between
> them. We had a lot of
> files we were arranging in a presentation (images) and had a "What's
> happened to our files?"
> experience.
>
> The fix is easy when you know where to look. Knowing where to look is what
> took the time and
> lots of trying to figure out good search terms.
>
> In any LibreOffice program, choose Tools / Options / General. Then, under
> "Open/Save dialogs" check the box "Use LibreOffice dialogs" (there is no
> mention
> of using Microsoft Windows dialogs, which may be the default).
>
> Cheers, JN
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