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[DOC] Words about various operations from the File menu not previousl…
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rnorris committed Nov 17, 2015
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<section><title>Open Recent File</title>
<para>
Located on the <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guisubmenu>Open Recent File</guisubmenu></menuchoice> menu only.
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The most recently opened files are available for opening again.
The number of files remembered is controlled by a value in the <xref linkend="prefs_advanced"/>.
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<para>
Note that files imported via the Acquire mechanism are not available in this list.
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<section><title>Save</title>
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Located on the <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guisubmenu>Save</guisubmenu></menuchoice> menu and on the toolbar <guibutton>Save</guibutton>.
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<section><title>Append</title>
<section><title>Append File</title>
<para>
Located on the <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guisubmenu>Append</guisubmenu></menuchoice> menu only.
Located on the <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guisubmenu>Append File...</guisubmenu></menuchoice> menu only.
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Selecting a <emphasis>Viking</emphasis> file from this method will join the file contents to the current window (instead of creating a new one).
GPX and KML files may also be appended, but this is exactly the same as the normal file open method.
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<section><title>Properties</title>
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Located on the <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guisubmenu>Properties</guisubmenu></menuchoice> menu only.
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<para>
Displays some simple properties about the loaded Viking project file (if any), such as full filename including the path, the filesize and the date/time of the file.
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<section><title>Export All</title>
<para>
Located on the <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guisubmenu>Export All</guisubmenu></menuchoice> menu only.
Choose either the <menuchoice><guimenu>GPX</guimenu></menuchoice> or <menuchoice><guimenu>KML</guimenu></menuchoice> option.</para>
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This allows converting every <xref linkend="TrackWaypoint"/> layer from the existing project into files of the type choosen.
You will be prompted for a directory into which a new file for each layer will be saved.
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The KML option uses <application>GPSBabel</application> and so will not be available if <application>GPSBabel</application> can not be detected.
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Note that some data properties are not supported by the target export file type. Such as item visibility or track colours.
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<section id="acquire" xreflabel="acquire"><title>Acquire</title>

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