Showing two sheets of the same spreadsheet

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#1

yes,

             on Apple's MacIntosh, this is simple ... it's one of the
advantages, I've discovered in finally making the decision to purchase :wink:

            on MsFt's, it's a matter of re-sizing each window then keeping
each running. :wink:

#2

How is this "simple" on Macintosh, please? It's a well established idea, I think, that aficionados of Apple systems often prefer them through genuinely held but erroneous notions of what other operating systems cannot do. See
https://thejaggedworddotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/apple-religious-fanaticism.jpg?w=238&h=179 . So it's fair that we should enquire.

If you don't have two windows, how do you see two sheets? That would have to be a facility in LibreOffice itself, which I don't see exists. In any case, if it did it would exist equally under different operating systems.

If there are two windows and you don't have both windows running, they cannot be operative and functional: nothing can work. (And you don't have to "keep each running": they do this by themselves!) If you have two windows each running in the same instance of LibreOffice, how is this different from what happens under Windows? And from what happens under Linux?

Are you able to explain in detail, please, exactly what you think Mac OS will do for you in this context - and how you achieve it - that isn't provided by other operating systems?

Or can anyone else confirm the advantage and explain the difference?

Brian Barker

#3

Hi Brian,

How is this "simple" on Macintosh, please? It's a well established idea,
I think, that aficionados of Apple systems often prefer them through
genuinely held but erroneous notions of what other operating systems

Perhaps the OP refers to the possibility under OSX to have the same
document open in a tabbed MDI-like interface when LibreOffice is run
fullscreen.

1) Start LibreOffice - open Calc document.
2) Click on green window icon to activate fullscreen mode
3) Now, from the LibreOffice application menu : Window - New Window
4) A duplicate window of the first document will open in a seemingly
MDI-interface within the LO application window space (in tabbed display).

One should nonetheless be aware that working in LO's "fullscreen" mode
on OSX is fraught with a number of annoying bugs...due to LO's
incomplete support for Apple's fullscreen API (or rather, the code in LO
is a fudge that just about works most of the time).

Alex