[3.5.3.2/Writer] Split screen in half horizontally?

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#21

sounds sensible to me :slight_smile:

       But the program I really liked was the first one I had with my first
computer - back-when-DOS -
            the program has never been updated ... it allowed me to type in
one half of the screen while viewing something in the other half; in that
way, I could add quotes, poems, ... without having to close down the
document in order to open another, ... ... ...

       computing ... computing ... does not compute :wink:

Hi :slight_smile:

#22

simplification is apparent ???
              to whom ???

       To have to close down one file in order to open another, etc. etc.
etc. rather than allowing each to remain open in their half of the screen
seems the most sensible and simplest method - it's also the way many folks
worked pre-computers - with the data spread out on the desktop - and floor
- ready at the spur of the moment.

That feature (the MDI interface) of Microsoft Office appears to be going,

#23

Hi :slight_smile:
The lock files should disappear when you close the document.  It's supposed to help prevent soemone else from editing the file at the same time as you or to prevent you from accidentally opening a copy of a file that you have already opened.  For example if you spent hours editing a document without saving it and then opened a copy without the editing then if you saved the 2nd copy after closing the first one then you would lose all your hours of editing.

There is something seriously wrong with your machine if you can't open 2 documents at the same time.  Hopefully it's only the User Profile of LO that is so stuffed-up.

I forget whether you are using Windows or Gnu&Linux (Ubuntu or something).  Do you know how much Ram your machine has and how fast the Cpu is?  On Windows right-click on "My Computer" and choose "Properties" at the bottom of the right-click menu.  The "General" tab should show you how much ram it thinks you have.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#24

Quite a lot of interesting discussions about the possibility of looking at 2 documents the same time.

I was especially surprised that this very nice feature will be gone in MSO 2013. Luckily I use LibO only thus cannot feel cheated by MS when this feature is gone after I purchased an expensive upgrade.

As a reference, one can just look at MSO 2003. There I used this feature mainly for word documents of the same language or with different languages. I could scroll both documents synchronized or separately. All in one big but split window. I used this for many years until I switched to LibO.

I think it doesn't need complicated programming and I also feel that it could be applied to all elements of LibO the same way. (Be careful I not a dev and don't have dev knowledge; its just my feeling.)

If someone is interested in more details, let me know, I will fire up my old PC where there is still MSO 2003 installed and look at the details.

#25

Yes, the '03 worked and I enjoyed using that for that reason;
              I can no longer use it because MSFT only allows a certain
number of computers - so when the HD died on the last one, so did my access
to '03 ???

       Obviously, MSFT knows that computers' HDs die so why is there a
limited number of times to download the program ??? -
              obviously MSFT is more greedy than caring ;-(

       So with this new computer, I plan to ONLY use those programs which
will be transferable if and when I ever have another HD die ...
               starting over is no fun :wink:

       Ok, I admit, I liked OO then LO for some things -
             and I liked the MSFT program for some things :wink:

Quite a lot of interesting discussions about the possibility of looking at