hi. thanks so much for your question. its my question too! but i am not shure which settings you should change or which operating systems support it! my solution is only openning the specific program you need separately.
On 6/7/16, Girvin R. Herr <gherr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > On 06/06/2016 11:58 AM, jd1008 wrote: >> >> >> On 06/06/2016 12:53 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: >>> jd1008 schrieb: >>> [..] >>>> One way is to simply click on file -> open ... and open the text >>>> document in question - you do not need the 8 choice >>>> menu all over again - however, and unfortunately, aoo does not seem to >>>> support multiple instances of it to be >>>> running simultaneously. >>> >>> AOO does support running multiple instances, but that is not the >>> right solution for Ron. >>> >>> Kind regards >>> Regina >>> >> As has been explained already, windows supports multiple (separate) >> windows of aoo, each >> viewing and editing some file. >> >> Linux does not support that. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> > > Actually, Aoo does support multiple instances of the same file open, > probably irregardless of OS. I don't know about other OSs, but it works > in Linux. Try Window | New Window. The file you do that on will open a > separate window (file instance) with the same file. The window header > shows <file> : 2 for the second instance. What more could you ask for? > > I seem to remember there was a way to split the window into 2 fields > with separate scroll bars for each, to look at/edit a file in different > places, but I cannot find it now. Maybe someone else knows how to do that. > > I just did a further test, modifying the first instance and checking the > second instance to verify that the change was propagated. It was. I > can also save the changes in either instance, so the file is not locked > nor set read-only by creating another instance. > > As a side note on multiple AOO instances running at the same time, there > once was an *OO version that ran on multi-user systems. That had to run > multiple instances of *OO, one for each user on the same computer. I am > not sure if there is a separate version for that, or that the *OO > configuration can be modified to allow that, or the current version no > longer supports that. I have never had a need for it, even though > Linux, for one, is a multi-user, multi-tasking OS that is fully capable > of it. > > HTH > Girvin Herr > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Those who follow the Messenger-Prophet, the Ummi, whom they find written down with them in the Taurat and the Injeel [who] enjoins them good and forbids them evil, and makes lawful to them the good things and makes unlawful to them impure things, and removes from them their burden and the shackles which were upon them; so [as for] those who believe in him and honor him and help him, and follow the light which has been sent down with him, these it is that are the successful. holy quran, chapter 7, verse 157. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
