Navigator is a lot like Microsoft saying "We're stable because we made it one whole hour without crashing."
Tabbed document divisions were created by God and given to Lotus WordPro. It's not just the navigation, but the grouping and reordering and skipping and everything else. If you create a tab with multiple chapters and move that division to a different place in the book, ALL chapter numbers get fixed instantly. You could flag divisions as printable/non-printable so you could keep all of your working notes in various tabbed divisions where they would remain forever but not appear in actual output. On massive technical manuals where you have multiple divisions each having multiple sections and each section having multiple chapters...it is the ONLY method of sanity. I have written books using WordPro. I have written books using WordPerfect under OS/2. I have written books using OpenOffice, Symphony, and currently have two I'm writing with LO. WordPerfect was almost tolerable, but it really paled next to WordPro. Writing large technical books with any of the OpenOffice clones is much like getting kicked in the groin by penis hating women wearing steel toed boots. I usually end up having to use 4 different word processors at the same time to write a book now, when I could use only one with WordPro. There are still disasters which strike this new environment which were physically impossible in Wordpro. Until you've actually loaded WordPro and created an 800+ page technical book having 24 chapters, 4 divisions, and multiple sections, don't try to put any of the OO clones in the same class. You don't know it, but you are trying to say watching a little league game which is about to invoke the 20 run rule is just as great as the combined summer and winter olympics. On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 19:52 +0100, Brian Barker wrote: > At 14:01 06/08/2011 -0400, Brian Grawburg wrote: > >I specifically use Word Pro because I can create a division and then > >easily click on the chapter tab to go to a specific location. If > >LibreOffice included such an option it would become my only word > >processing program, ... > > Have you tried the Navigator (View | Navigator or F5)? If your > chapter headings have appropriate Heading styles, you can easily jump > to them in the Navigator. > > >For now, I will only be able to use LibreOffice for short documents. > > No: like others, you can use it for long documents too. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] 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
