https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35256

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I have several times attempted to make the move from OpenOffice to LibreOffice
(most recently with LO version 5.0.2, with Windows 8.1; previously with several
other LO versions and Win 8.0, 7 and others), which in most respects seems to
be a much better program. What’s keeping me back is the way the Navigator works
in LO. Glancing through this and other forums, it seems to me that I am not the
only person with this concern.

I work a lot with long documents. At present, I’m writing a 500-page book with
three main parts, divided into (in all) 30 chapters and about 100 subchapters.
I constantly need to move around from subchapter to subchapter in this text,
and the Navigator (Contents view) as it appears in OpenOffice is ideal for this
purpose: all chapters and subchapters are spread out in plain view, I can jump
around freely, and if I can’t remember if subchapter X is located in chapter
17, 18 or 19, I can find it at a glance and go to it instantly. For me this is
an essential feature. It was my main reason for migrating from WordPerfect to
OpenOffice, even though I’m a long-standing WP user – since version 3.0.

Unfortunately, this is not the way Navigator works in LO:

-   When I (re)open a document, Navigator always appears in a totally closed
state, which means that I have to click 33 times on the little “+”-signs in
order to get the document’s contents spread out the way I need them to be.

-   When I close and reopen Navigator without exiting the document (press F5
twice), the same thing happens.

-   When I double-click on an opened chapter title, to move there, the
subchapters of all other chapters disappear and I must reopen them.

-    Finally, there is no keyboard shortcut or button I can click that would
open up all chapters and subchapters all at once.

This is an extremely impractical, and – it seems to me – extremely illogical
way for the program to work.

Could someone please, please, please, please fix it! It is the only reason why
I am still using OpenOffice, and there must be plenty of people out there who
share this problem with me.

Unfortunately, I do not know how to program, or I would have had a go at it
myself.

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