Last cursor position

users
#1

Good evening
I (and other people all over the net) have brought up this before.
So, please bear with me ...

I would like the cursor to be upon opening documents where it was, when
I left the document.
Now I found in the LibreOffice documentation the following (took very
long!):
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Cursor Position
In general, all documents open with the cursor at the start of the document.

One exception appears when the author of a Writer text document saves
and reopens a document: The cursor will be at the same position where it
has been when the document was saved. This only works when the name of
the author was entered in Tools - Options - LibreOffice - User Data.

Press Shift+F5 to set the cursor to the last saved position.
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So, LO is greedy and allows the cursor to be at the last editing
position, when YOU are owner/author of the document.
I constantly have to work (translation, mostly Word files) on documents
that have been prepared by other people.
Is there a way to convince LO to be a little more generous?
If you have 50-100 page documents and EACH TIME have to scroll through
that thing to find where you were ... this is ANNOYING.

The "Press Shift+F5" does not work at all.
At least I cannot make it work = it does NOTHING.
Is there a trick to this?
I imagine, this function COULD be very helpful ... if it were working ...

Thank you
Thomas

#2

You simply need to set some user detail for your profile. Done from Tools ->
Options -> User Data panel and set a minimum of the First/Last
Name/Initials fields.

On builds > 4.4.3.2, 0n your first edit/save of the document, you will
establish a new edit point. Document will reopen to that point.

It was not correct on 4.3.x builds

#3

He wants co-editors to know the last edit position.

#4

Andreas Säger wrote

He wants co-editors to know the last edit position.

Yes, and having set some user ID and then saving, when the next collaborator
opens the document (also with a user ID set) the "Restore Edit View"
<Shift>+F5 will reposition to the last edited position at save.

Alternatively, as suggested, an editor can set a book mark which will
persist from editor to editor (reached from the context menu of the Status
Bar's -> Page number field. Editors would need to clear and reset these
specific bookmarks.

The "Restore Edit View" value is dynamic from editor to editor--and is
built-in to ODF export filters. The only user effort is assuring some User
ID is set for each collaborating editor and that they don't conflict (or the
new Manage Changes features will get confused).

#5

Thank you. I didn't know about that. Nobody wants to co-edit with me. :frowning:

#6

Andreas Säger wrote

He wants co-editors to know the last edit position.

No. I have to work on specific files for days on end and DO have to close, reopen them several (many) times.
I don't care about co-editors (the people at the translation agencies).
All I want is to open the file at pecisely the point where I have left it.
Inserting a bookmark each and every time is LUMBERSOME, to put it mildly.

Yes, and having set some user ID and then saving, when the next collaborator opens the document (also with a user ID set) the "Restore Edit View" <Shift>+F5 will reposition to the last edited position at save.

I tried that for hours on end, but never could make the "Restore Edit View" work.
The cursor NEVER goes back to ANY former editing position.

The only user effort is assuring some User ID is set for each collaborating editor and that they don't conflict (or the new Manage Changes features will get confused).

MY user ID is definitely different from that of the agency.
Thomas

#7

Hmm, on Windows 7 sp1 64-bit or Windows 8.1 64-bit with
Version: 4.4.3.2
Build ID: 88805f81e9fe61362df02b9941de8e38a9b5fd16
Locale: en_US

With Tools -> Options -> User Data first/last name/initials filled in
documents I open for editing open with cursor set to the last location they
were edited. And with scrolling, the <Shift>+F5 short cut will return to
that location -- until an additional edit is made.

Have you tried clearing your user profile? Either Delete it, or rename it,
found at C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4 Delete it
if you have no "customizations" or dictionaries you care about, otherwise
simply rename the folder (with LO closed), and allow a new profile to be
created.

#8

This can not work with *.doc(x). It is designed to work with ODF text.