Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 62112
restore last doc and last edit point on start
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:19:45 UTC
I thought this was a bug, but reading through old issues I saw that "restore open windows" was supposed to re-open windows of a given doc. That's not what I was looking for. I'm looking for what amounts to a "state-save". I work on very long documents, and usually on one for some time. It gets real old, having to go through the same button clicks every time I start the program, mainly because it seems so unnecessary. All we need is a check box for "state save" to allow OO to open in the last-used doc and at the last-edit point. (Open at last edit point would be a nice feature for docs generally. Other issue reports imply this is now available. ?? I've never come across it, but will look again now.) (I _hope_ this is not a duplicate. I spent lots of time looking and searching, but I'm new at this. Apologies if it is a dup.)
well, there's Tools->Options...->OpenOffice.org->View->Restore, Tools->Options. ..->Load/Save->General->Load (see the help for what they do) and issue 60511, to which this issue is practically duplicate *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 60511 ***
That was a fast response, lars. Thanks. I thought I'd made clear that Tools->Options...->OpenOffice.org->View->Restore a) did not cause OO 2.0 to open in the last-used doc and b) as I understood the response to another issue, related only to docs within OO, not to OO itself. Tools->Options...->Load/Save->General->Load loads user-specific settings for a doc, but does not cause anything to be open automatically on start-up or return to the last edit point. If either of these options is supposed to do what I'm asking about, then my question should be under "bugs" rather than "request for features". I'm also not convinced that my question really is a duplicate of issue 60511. Yes, hibernate would have the desired effect on startup, but that sounds like an alternative that would continue to use system memory and so on. That would be less-than-ideal. Is it necessary, just to have OO remember the last-used doc?
Reassigned to ES.
you are right, these options only apply to documents when they are loaded, it does not apply to OOo itself to load with documents. You ask for a setting to open a specific (the current) document with OOo and restore the current caret position. Issue 60511 basically asks for the same thing when it wants to leave a document at the current cursor position and come back to this position (although not necessarily automatically and with the last configuration of toolbars etc. active). I see that this is slightly different, so I don't resolve this issue as duplicate for now.
Remember the cursor position is a duplicate of issue 43146. "Restore open windows" does not work as expected. Therfore it's a bug and not a feature. ES->MBA: please dispatch.
Do I need to submit the bug part of this, or does that get transferred automatically? i.e. what does "es -> mba, please dispatch" mean? Thanks for your help and for an awesome program!
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".