Size of calc window

Jim_Byrnes · March 15, 2015, 5:57pm

Using LO 3.5.7.2 on Ubuntu 12.04

Sometimes I need a full screen display other times not so big. LO Calc always opens to the size of the last sheet saved even if it is different from the one I am opening.

Is there a way to save the size of the window upon closing LO Calc so that each sheet opens to its saved size?

Thanks, Jim

Tom_Davies1 · March 17, 2015, 11:31am

Hi
Is this set by the OS rather than by LibreOffice? Oddly it does work for
me on Ubuntu 14.04.

However that might be due to installing the entire KDE desktop. It's tons
of bloat but gives me the advantage that other people logging into my
machine can use the more familiar environment. I probably wouldn't have 2
DEs on a machine that is really my own. We now have 2 machines that don't
have Windows on at all They are both the most used while each of the
Windows ones is only being used part of the week :))

Kubuntu desktop remembers all the things i had open when i shutdown and
attempts to place the windows in much the same way while also trying to
avoid having windows overlapping.

To get the whole of KDE for ubuntu i 'just' ran

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

and left it alone for several hours (well, felt like hours).

Jim_Byrnes · March 17, 2015, 2:39pm

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It does for me to as far as the OS part of it goes, I did a poor job of asking my question. If I have 2 spreadsheets A & B. A is run full screen and B is run using half the screen. If I shutdown A and then reopen A it is full screen. If I shut down B and then reopen B it takes half the screen. What I am asking about is if I shut down A and then open B, B will open full screen. what I would like is A to always be fullscreen and B to always be half screen.

Regards. Jim

Tom_Davies1 · March 17, 2015, 3:18pm

Hi
Actually i did get the same results as you on Ubuntu 14.04 and LibreOffice
4.4.1.

I've not tried many layers but if i close 2 documents and then open either
one of them or something else then the newly opened document uses the same
place and size as whichever document i happened to close last.

I'm not sure if filling in the;

File - Properties - Description

with some spaces and stuff makes any difference but i think that is the
usual odd thing that makes it behave better.
Regards from
Tom

Jim_Byrnes · March 17, 2015, 3:42pm

Hi
Actually i did get the same results as you on Ubuntu 14.04 and LibreOffice
4.4.1.

I've not tried many layers but if i close 2 documents and then open either
one of them or something else then the newly opened document uses the same
place and size as whichever document i happened to close last.

I'm not sure if filling in the;

File - Properties - Description

with some spaces and stuff makes any difference but i think that is the
usual odd thing that makes it behave better.
Regards from
Tom

I'm not sure what you are referring to here. I've not seen this mentioned before.

I've looked at Options-->Load/Save-->General and see the Load user-specific settings with document. I have it checked and this seems like a "user-specific" setting but the size is not honored.

Of course I am still on 3.5.7.2 I thought maybe it had changed but I guess not.

Regards, Jim

Tom_Davies1 · March 17, 2015, 7:08pm

Hi
There is a weird quirk about LibreOffice. If you open a document and fill
in some data (even spaces and made-up stuff seems to kinda work) and then
save the document it does a much better job of remembering what size window
it was last time it was open.

It's one of those weird things that shouldn't make a difference and i think
even the devs don't know why it changes anything.
Regards from
Tom

Tom_Davies1 · March 17, 2015, 7:16pm

Hi
Grrr, got distracted - sorry! The place to fill in a bit of data is;

File - Properties - Description

Like i say it shouldn't work but apparently it does make a difference.
Regards from
Tom

Jim_Byrnes · March 17, 2015, 10:00pm

Hi
There is a weird quirk about LibreOffice. If you open a document and fill
in some data (even spaces and made-up stuff seems to kinda work) and then
save the document it does a much better job of remembering what size window
it was last time it was open.

It's one of those weird things that shouldn't make a difference and i think
even the devs don't know why it changes anything.
Regards from
Tom

Thanks Tom, unfortunately it doesn't seem to help in this case.

Regards, Jim

Tom_Davies1 · March 19, 2015, 10:52am

Hi
Sorry! I don't have a good answer for this except the weird work-around
that is not helping you in this case.

It might be good to post a bug-report about it. I'm not sure who to but if
you post to LibreOffice bug-reporting system the QA Team might be able to
help.
Apols and regards from
Tom

Jim_Byrnes · March 19, 2015, 1:36pm

Hi
Sorry! I don't have a good answer for this except the weird work-around
that is not helping you in this case.

No problem. Thanks for trying. It's not a game breaker just an oddity I noticed.

It might be good to post a bug-report about it. I'm not sure who to but if
you post to LibreOffice bug-reporting system the QA Team might be able to
help.
Apols and regards from
Tom

I am using the old 3.xx branch and I doubt anyone is interested in fixing it now. When I eventually upgrade to the 4.xx branch if it is still present I will at that point.

Thanks, Jim