Hannah Steenbock

2 years ago

Hannah Steenbock
2 years ago

Hey, folks.

I love using Libre Office and have been for years. I write all my books with it. I believe you're leagues better than the MS version.

So why, oh why has Writer lost the ability to remember the last cursor position?

It's beyond annoying, especially when editing a 250 page document. This is one of the most important functions, to be able to continue where you stopped - why is it even broken?

Why has it been broken for so long?

#WritingCommunity

#writingcommunity @LibreOffice

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LibreOffice

in reply to Hannah Steenbock 2 years ago

Hi! Without more details (LibreOffice version, operating system, document format etc.) it's hard to say what the problem could be. If you're using LibreOffice's native format (OpenDocument) then it should work.

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LibreOffice

Unknown parent 2 years ago

Hi again! Since the update from which version? Can you try on LibreOffice 7.4.5? We can't reproduce here (it works with .odt files), but maybe there's something else at play. If it's still an issue on your system with 7.4.5, you could try Safe Mode (under the Help menu).

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LibreOffice

Unknown parent 2 years ago

@paulkater Throwing bricks at volunteers isn't the best idea 😉 Something is clearly wrong, but we can't reproduce it here (LibreOffice 7.5.0.3, with various .odt docs). To get a solution, have a look at bugs.documentfoundation.org to see if someone is reporting a similar issue, or create a new one, for the QA community to investigate. Thanks!

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Peter Vágner

Unknown parent 2 years ago

I understood this is a document specific feature meaning you have to go to the properties window to save the cursor position to every file you are working with. libreofficehelp.com/how-to-sav…

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LibreOffice

in reply to Peter Vágner 2 years ago

@pvagner @paulkater You shouldn't have to do that for every file. I'm running LibreOffice 7.5.0.3 here, and even when I create a new .odt file with many pages, save it and reopen it, the position is correct (without doing anything else). I know "it works for me" isn't the most helpful answer, so let's try to get to the bottom of this...

@Peter Vágner

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Peter Vágner

in reply to LibreOffice 2 years ago from Tusky

@LibreOffice @Paul @Hannah Steenbock I assume it's saved in the file metadata. Thus for every file that does not save its cursor position I need to reset the properties. I believe it's similar to how number of printings and other statistics is saved with each file.

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Hannah Steenbock
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