[libreoffice-users] Split Screen in Writer?
Hi: I already know I'm becoming senile, but I'm sure it used to be possible to use a split screen to compare/edit/copy from one part of the same document to another. I'm currently doing trying to do such comparing/editing/copying, and the only way I can do it is to open another window, which accomplishes something similar, but because I have several other windows (and even apps) open, Alt-Tabbing becomes very tedious. I realize that I can click the mouse in the Window I want to switch to, but when one is on a roll while typing that is also distracting. Did there used to be such a split screen capability (and I also recall there was some simple keystroke sequence that permitted jumping from one to the other without using Alt+Tab) in LibreOffice? If so, where did it go? If it's still there, how do I access it? If it makes a difference, I'm using the SideBar. I'm also using LO 4.3.3.2 on 64-bit Ubuntu, and can't upgrade to any newer version because of the various table and frame bugs that have appeared recently. Thanks in advance for any comments ... -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Split-Screen-in-Writer-tp4138494.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Split Screen in Writer?
Hi :) This method is not as neat as it is in Calc but open your document and then; Windows (menu at the very top of the screen hidden along the same line as the timedate (errr, that is more complicated than on any other platform thanks to the weird UI in Ubuntu)) then Open new window Err, they open kinda on top of each other but just grab the 'title-bar' and move it fast against the left or right-hand side of the screen so that the mouse kinda bangs up against the side or even overshoots a bit. As with many OSes these days (excluding Xp) that makes that window fill half the screen. Grab the other window and bang it against the other side of the screen to get them both side-by-side. You can now scroll one without affecting the other (except that text you type into one of them appears in the other (if you can scroll to where the new text should be)). Regards from Tom :) On 1 February 2015 at 19:06, CVAlkan fobe...@enteract.com wrote: Hi: I already know I'm becoming senile, but I'm sure it used to be possible to use a split screen to compare/edit/copy from one part of the same document to another. I'm currently doing trying to do such comparing/editing/copying, and the only way I can do it is to open another window, which accomplishes something similar, but because I have several other windows (and even apps) open, Alt-Tabbing becomes very tedious. I realize that I can click the mouse in the Window I want to switch to, but when one is on a roll while typing that is also distracting. Did there used to be such a split screen capability (and I also recall there was some simple keystroke sequence that permitted jumping from one to the other without using Alt+Tab) in LibreOffice? If so, where did it go? If it's still there, how do I access it? If it makes a difference, I'm using the SideBar. I'm also using LO 4.3.3.2 on 64-bit Ubuntu, and can't upgrade to any newer version because of the various table and frame bugs that have appeared recently. Thanks in advance for any comments ... -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Split-Screen-in-Writer-tp4138494.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Split Screen in Writer?
Hi :) Err, of course you could have 1 window open on each workspace. Once you have opened a window do; shift Ctrl Alt and the down or right arrow on the keyboard. that moves the window to one of the other workspaces. Then to get back to the first workspace do the same combo without the shift key, ie so; Ctrl Alt and up or left Oddly Kubuntu doesn't react to either of those keyboard combos. Regards from Tom :) On 1 February 2015 at 20:02, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) This method is not as neat as it is in Calc but open your document and then; Windows (menu at the very top of the screen hidden along the same line as the timedate (errr, that is more complicated than on any other platform thanks to the weird UI in Ubuntu)) then Open new window Err, they open kinda on top of each other but just grab the 'title-bar' and move it fast against the left or right-hand side of the screen so that the mouse kinda bangs up against the side or even overshoots a bit. As with many OSes these days (excluding Xp) that makes that window fill half the screen. Grab the other window and bang it against the other side of the screen to get them both side-by-side. You can now scroll one without affecting the other (except that text you type into one of them appears in the other (if you can scroll to where the new text should be)). Regards from Tom :) On 1 February 2015 at 19:06, CVAlkan fobe...@enteract.com wrote: Hi: I already know I'm becoming senile, but I'm sure it used to be possible to use a split screen to compare/edit/copy from one part of the same document to another. I'm currently doing trying to do such comparing/editing/copying, and the only way I can do it is to open another window, which accomplishes something similar, but because I have several other windows (and even apps) open, Alt-Tabbing becomes very tedious. I realize that I can click the mouse in the Window I want to switch to, but when one is on a roll while typing that is also distracting. Did there used to be such a split screen capability (and I also recall there was some simple keystroke sequence that permitted jumping from one to the other without using Alt+Tab) in LibreOffice? If so, where did it go? If it's still there, how do I access it? If it makes a difference, I'm using the SideBar. I'm also using LO 4.3.3.2 on 64-bit Ubuntu, and can't upgrade to any newer version because of the various table and frame bugs that have appeared recently. Thanks in advance for any comments ... -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Split-Screen-in-Writer-tp4138494.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted