On 05/27/2011 12:19 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
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 do not deal with more than 1 to 3 different office type of documents
at a time. But for the person who writes books, papers, and other
things like that, could have the main document in one tab, the
bibliography in a 2nd, a footnote section in a 3rd, notes and other
research in still others. Then tabbing between documents might be easier
than between "programs" shown on the task bar. I know of one author
that went from StarOffice to OOo and from Windows to Linux since he used
a different style of keyboard, instead of QWERTY, and Linux was easier
to setup that keyboard that was easier for him to use. He also wrote
his own macros to do functions he needed, or wanted, that would help him
write his 3 to 5 paperback novels a year. His wife still use Windows
since they could not get the Linux machine to work with the dial-up
modem. I do not know if he will be moving over to LibreOffice, not that
Oracle owns the rights to the name.
I think the tabbed document idea would work great for the type of work
he described doing in his author's note at the end of most of his books,
or his monthly blog. For me having tabbed web pages in Firefox works
for my need to page back and forth between web "documents" to keep up
with weather reports[2 pages], hourly/daily reports on what my computer
is doing with BOINC, several LibreOffice related pages including several
wiki pages, and whatever other web pages I need to keep an eye one and
do not want to have to open up every time I want to see some info.
If I wanted to deal with writing, like I use to work on for thesis
papers, I thing having a tabbed work environment would help keeping all
the various documents together and arranged more neatly than the ways I
had to deal with in the past. Also it would give me only one listing in
the task bar realistate when I have to have many different programs open
at the same time. I currently have a simple schedule, computer monitor,
BOINC manager, LibreOffice, Thunderbird-main, this email in Thunderbird,
and FireFox [with its own 7 tabs]. If I had to have 3 or more
LibreOffice documents open, the task bar package names would get too
small to mean anything to identify which LO task belongs to which
document. I once has over 15 tasks open at the same time, and it was a
pain. Tabbed document management withing LibreOffice would reduce that
mess sometimes.
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