Re: [libreoffice-users] tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

At 11:14 27/05/2011 -0400, Nobody Noname wrote:
> I just read a article about adding "tabs" to Word that allows you to 
> have multiple Word documents own in tabs, like you have for Firefox 
> or IE.  The lady was saying that she had 4 or 5 Word documents open 
> at the same time and the "tab" option.  She said she would be lost 
> without web browsers having tabs, so it just makes sense to have 
> such an option in Word.
>
> So I was wondering if anyone knows any add-on to LibreOffice that 
> would allow multiple Writer docs open at the same time in without 
> having multiple instances of LO open at the same time.  That would 
> make life easier sometimes.  Since OOo's extension site is not 
> working half the time, I thought someone here might know of such an extension.

I think you are missing the point here!  If you open, say, Internet 
Explorer, when it's already running, you get another instance.   Tabs 
change that - don't they? - so that you can have multiple pages 
within one instance.  But it's been a very long time since Word has 
behaved like that: if you start Word when it is already running, it 
merely opens another document in the same instance of the 
program.  This is despite your seeing separate windows.

In fact, OpenOffice and LibreOffice are already ahead of that, since 
they are integrated suites, so you can even open multiple documents 
of different types in one instance of the program.  You can have a 
text document and a spreadsheet both open in the same instance of the 
suite (which is why it's sometimes unhelpful to think of Writer and 
Calc as being separate programs).  Try opening a spreadsheet from 
within Word or a text document from within Excel: no joy!

The way you move between multiple documents in applications is 
generally using the Window menu - and this works in OpenOffice and 
LibreOffice as in anything else.  And with these suites, you even get 
all open documents, even if of different types.  (With the ribbon, 
this appears under View | Window in recent versions of Word.)

What you could be asking for, then, is not the ability to have 
multiple documents open in a single instance - which is already here 
- but simply a move from a Window menu to tabs as a way of handling them.

Unless I misunderstand things ...

> I just wish she would get her "story" straight since she promotes 
> open source office suite options as the alternative to MSO.  Here 
> she tells people she uses Word, while other articles tell people 
> about the virtue of using OOo, then LibreOffice, instead of MSO.

Isn't it possible that both may have their pros and cons?

Brian Barker


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