On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 08:48 -0500, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > 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.
> 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. There's a curious sentence in Help for Restore > Editing view, which says that Write documents always open on page 1. So whatever has changed seems to have warranted a conscious statement in Help. > > > ... > > >> > > >>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 > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
