[libreoffice-users] Re: Feature request - Lotus Wordpro tabs

Am 17.06.2011, 16:20 Uhr, schrieb Roland Hughes  
<roland@logikalsolutions.com>:

> If you visit the bug report site, you will see I have filed several bugs
> on this issue.  They cannot implement WordPro tabs until they implement
> WordPro windows for documents.  Right now they have taken the brain dead
> Microsoft approach of having each document as a tab.


Hmm... I'm not actually sure what this WordPro feature looks like (never
seen WordPro in action), but maybe there are ways to achieve something
similar in LibreOffce:

- simplest: Use headings to navigate longer documents. Not suitable for  
filed letters and stuff, but for longer documents with chapters very nice.  
You get a chapter list in the navigator (F5) and can jump between them.

- also simple way to view different parts of the same document at once:  
Window -> New window
This opens a new window for the same window, the contents are identical,  
but you can view different parts of the document at the same time.

- Use different regions for different "tabs". Insert->region
  Each region can have different page or column layouts,and so on, but  
will share format and page templates. Also, the navigator shows different  
regions, and you can jump between them

- Use a global document (see also LO help for Global documents). You can  
have several documents and link them into one global document. There, they  
share the same format templates, the single documents are displayed as  
regions, and they can (but do not have to) be read-only. A doubleclick  
opens the original file for editing. So you could link all documents  
regarding one client/case into one global document, so you can print them  
all at once, or skip through them quickly or whatever it is you do with  
those documents.
Global documents are also nice for very large pieces of work (books or  
image-heavy documents. You can edit the single parts independently,  
without having to load and handle the whole monster at once, then look at  
it in all its glory in the global document. You can even create a new  
sub-document from within the global document (but you'll need to give it a  
filename)


All of this is probably not the same you're used to having, and porting  
existing docs over is not likely easy. but it might work to achieve a  
similar effect as the one you're describing.



... but why are you posting this in the "SVG embedding" thread? :)


Zak


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