On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 09:48 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> > Sorry, I should have mentioned I'm using 2.0.1, and yes, I have all my user
> > information filled in. It's very strange.

That is not all you have to do. You have to make other choices. Like
setting the Reply-To heading so it goes to the list rather than
a Post To: field. I and others would appreciate it if you would
configure your client appropriately. If you do not know how, ask your
system administrator.

As to your supposed problem, please try setting the following:
Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > View with any settings you personally
need that are different from the default. For example, Restore > Editing
view. For detail, click Help on the dialogue box Help button and follow
the links.


> ...
> >>
> >>Up to yesterday, whenever I called up a file it came up with the
> >>cursor at the last position it had been at. Since this morning, the
> >>cursor is at the very top of each document, whether old or new, when I
> >>call up the document.
> > 
> > 
> > Which version are you using? 2.0 or 1.1.5? 
> > 
> > Have you entered your user-informations in the OOo-dialogue? Your name
> > is necessary in OOo 2.0.x. Additionally, you'll have to select "Recovery
> > | Edit-view" (or something similar - since I'm using only the German
> > version) under Tools - Options. 
> > 
> > Hope this helps you. 
> 
> I don't know with which version the behaviour changed.
> OpenOffice used to always store the cursor position when the douments
> view was closed and restored the view to that position when it was 
> opened. I also liked this a lot because it was an easy way to have a
> 'bookmark' of the position where to continue with reading.
> 
> Unfortunately at some point it was decided that this is not what the
> average user would want because reading should start from the first 
> page. So now the the documents always gets opened with the view on the 
> first page. That is unless you are the author! In that case the last 
> position is used because it was assumed the author usually want's to 
> continue writing the document.
> That's why it should be essential if the your user info matches the one 
> stored with the document.
> 
> Unfortunately there also was no option introduced to allow the user to 
> customize this behaviour. The only thing done was to introduce a 
> keyboard shortcut (I think it was sth like Shift-F5) to return the 
> cursor to the last editing position which should be pretty much what you 
> and I wanted to have by default.
> 
> I personally still would prefer the old solution though. :-/
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas
> 
> 
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