If you are an OpenOffice.org user who frequently accesses a document, such as your research paper, your grading sheet or your presentation, you will surely find the Bookmarks Menu extension in OpenOffice.org useful.
The Bookmarks Menu works like the Bookmarks tool (Favorites for Internet Explorer) in your web browser. However, it is capable of bookmarking a variety of entries : documents, webpages, macros and shell commands from within OpenOffice.org. It is one of the most recently added extensions in the OpenOffice.org extensions repository .
Download Bookmarks Menu 0.3.2 from http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/bookmarksmenu
To install it, launch OpenOffice.org then choose Tools > Extension Manager (Package Manager in older versions of OpenOffice.org). Select the //My Extensions// section, and press the Add button. Select the BookmarksMenu-0.3.2.oxt package , and press OK. Then restart OpenOffice.org.
After launching OOo, select Tools – Add-Ons – Bookmarks Menu to execute the macro . You can click on the help button of the dialog to access the documentation for the extension. Press OK. The Bookmarks Menu is added to the toolbar.
When you click on the Bookmarks bar, two sub-menus appear: Bookmark This Document and Edit Bookmarks. Bookmark This Document bookmarks the document that is currently open and saves its name on the Bookmarks bar. This is similar to the Recent Documents feature but has more to offer. It does not only bookmark documents, it also bookmarks macros, web pages and shell commands. It also allows you to sort the bookmarked items , which the Recent Documents option could not do.
To bookmark a document, first open the document. Then choose “Bookmark This Document” on the toolbar.
The Edit Bookmarks submenu lets you add entries other than documents. Click on Edit Bookmarks under the Bookmarks Menu tool. Then click the “New” button. Edit its elements on the opened dialog. Enter the “Label”, select the “Type”, enter the “URL” and “Arguments” if you need. Then click OK.
You will find the entry under the Bookmarks tool in the toolbar.
Bookmarking shell commands allows you to send commands to external applications. For example, when you bookmark a web page, OpenOffice.org opens the default web browser and accesses the URL you bookmarked.
You can also export your shell commands and settings in the Edit Bookmarks menu, which can be helpful if you are using the Bookmarks menu extension on several machines.
