Joe Smith wrote:
On 06/19/2009 06:50 AM, AG wrote:
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How do I set it up so that when I open a document it defaults to opening
it at the place I last worked on - i.e. the end of the document?
OOo Writer tries to be smart here: if the document is opened by its
author, the editing cursor and view are restored and you start out
back where you last saved the document. If the document is opened by
someone other than the author, it starts at the beginning.
Great idea--in principle--but it's broken all too easily since the
only way that OOo can determine whether the person opening the
document is the author is to look at the name recorded under Tools >
Options > OO.org > User Data, which can easily be incorrect or
inconsistent across multiple systems or even across software upgrades.
If you maintain the name in the user data consistently, then OOo will
start your documents at the last saved position.
For manual control, you can easily reach the end of the document with
Ctrl+End, or the last editing position with Shift+F5.
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How do I set it up so that OOo Writer can do a background save that does
not interrupt my work whilst it is saving and that the saving process
doesn't return me to the page where the cursor is even when that page
does not have focus - i.e. is not the page I am looking at at the time
of the background save?
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It's not possible as far as I know.
The simplest workaround is to either scroll using methods that also
move the editing cursor: PgUp/Dn, Ctrl+Up/Down, and headings in the
Navigator are the only ones I can think of; or to develop a habit of
always moving the cursor to the area where you're working.
There is a request to fix the view jumping on autosave:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81697
and the issue is getting some attention, but there also seems to be
some confusion over the exact state of the problem at this point.
What bugs me is that this nasty autosave hiccup still happens, even
when the document has not changed since the last manual save.
<Joe
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Thank you for your helpful comments Joe. It's good to see that the
developers are going to pay attention to this issue of autosave because
it can really be a PITA, especially when scrolling through a long
document to read it without using the cursor to keep up with the scroll.
I suppose another issue is the length of time it takes to autosave: with
3Gb of RAM and a further 3Gb allocated to my swap partition, one would
think that there'd be plenty of memory for OOo to use in the save
process. Perhaps there is a way of manually allocating further memory
to OOo specifically so it can do that administrative function more in
the background? Again, it is a PITA when busy typing away and
everything has to stop for the OOo to save. Is that why MS Word tends
to create all of these background files (*.tmp) so that it can more
effectively do a background save?
Anyway, thanks again.
AG
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