At 23:05 14/04/2008 -0400, Kenn Goutal wrote:
Perhaps my memory is faulty, but I thought *sure* that OO.o writer
used to have a way to bring up the style organizer in a separate
window. Did it?
I cannot find a way to do this at this time -- whenever I bring it
up, it always shows up as a sort of sidebar to the main text window.
I can minimize is to that it takes up nearly no room at all, but if
I want to use it, it uses up maybe 2" of the width of the window.
(Give or take, depending on how I resize it, but 2" is about the
minimum necessary.)
I looked in the help menu, but it just told me how to start the
style organizer such that it comes up in that same fashion.
Am I missing something obvious?
I'm not sure I would call this obvious, in fact. The way to dock
such a window (and what you presumably must have done by mistake) is
to double-click a vacant area (or, in this case, the grey area around
the icons) whilst holding down Ctrl. Apart from dragging a docked
window back off the edge (as has been suggested), you can
alternatively repeat Ctrl plus double-click to undock a window.
Two more things:
o How are you minimising this window? You may be just dragging the
boundary, in which case you need to drag it again to get it back so
that the window is useful. But there is a Hide/Show button at the
centre of the window edge, with which you can quickly hide or reveal
the side window.
o And here's another trick that you may find useful: try hiding the
window with the button but then clicking on the just-visible window
edge somewhere *other than* on the button. This also shows the
window again - but there is a difference. Now, once you have done
whatever you need to do in the side window and return to (and click
in) the main window, the side window hides automatically. This could
be a convenient way of having the side window easily available but
not obscuring your text whilst you are working.
Oh, and all this applies to the Navigator window, too - or even to
both at once.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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