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Creating a Customized XML Configuration File

3 Click the UI element tab you want to customize.

Make your changes and click OK.

The changes are saved to one or more XML configuration files in the OpenOffice.org user directory. The file names and

location for these files is ooo-user-dir/config/soffice.cfg/modules/module-identifier/element-

type/element-name.xml

Using a Text Editor for UI Customization

You can also use a text editor to customize a UI element in an XML configuration file. For example, to remove

an item from the Tools menu in Writer, open the menubar.xml file for Writer, and delete the XML element for

the menu item. You can also use XML configuration files to limit the functionality of OpenOffice.org. See

Restricting functionality for more information.

The UI configuration settings for each of the following components in an OpenOffice.org module are stored in

separate XML configuration files:

 Menu bars

 Shortcut keys

 Toolbars

 Events

 Status bars

 Images

These UI elements are located in install-

dir/basics<version>/share/config/soffice.cfg/modules/module-identifier/element-

type/element-name.xml

For example, the XML configuration file for the OpenOffice.org 3.2 Writer menu bar is install-

dir/basics3.2/share/config/soffice.cfg/modules/swriter/menubar/menubar.xml

The following table lists the short module identifiers for each OpenOffice.org module:

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