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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