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		AlotOfReading 42 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to... I get why libreoffice has the file open dialog, but it irritates me. 99% of the time I just want the file open to see the shape of the data, not make a bunch of parsing decisions for a file I've never seen before with unknown idiosyncrasies.

grgergo 41 days ago [–]

The dialog has a checkbox to always use previously saved settings. "Always show on import", screenshot: https://files.catbox.moe/r79y0i.png

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