Re: [libreoffice-users] last edit position

Thomas,
You could do what I do in plain text editors when editing software 
source files.  I insert a string of "at" signs: "@@@@" where I want a 
"tag".  I then can do a search for "@@@@" and go to where I want.  
Multiple numbers of "at" signs or different strings can allow multiple 
"tags" to search for.  This is not the single-key function you would 
prefer, but it does work and is not very complex.

I maintain documents larger than 60 pages and I generally use the 
vertical scroll bar while looking at paragraph numbers or the page 
number in the bottom status bar zooming by.  I may have to scroll back 
and forth a bit to home in to the area I want, but this process is 
reasonably fast to me.

You probably already know that LO will open a file and place the cursor 
where it last was when the file was saved.
Hope this helps.
Girvin Herr


Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> Good evening
> I would ***LOVE*** to have a CONVENIENT function for jumping to the last
> edit position.
>
> I believe this and/or similar questions have been asked before:
> http://ask.libreoffice.org/question/1144/cursor-position-not-saved-in-writer#1147
>
> But this does not work.
> I do have my personal data entered under Tools and yet the software
> ALWAYS opens the document at the top.
> Once I am working in the document, there is the "Navigator", but despite
> of having all sorts of items/functions,
> there is NONE, that would bring me back to the last position the cursor
> was, when I was last editing the document.
>
> Right now I am working on a 60-page document and it is really a nuisance
> having to scroll (one way or other) through
> dozens of pages to get back to that last editing position, once I left
> it for whatever reasons.
>
> In the past I used WordPerfect (not any more). This had a very
> convenient function called "quick mark".
> Every time you save the document (Ctrl+S), the software automatically
> enters a mark and you can jump to that position
> from whereever you are with a keyboard shortcut.
>
> Although under Tools -> Customize -> Keyboard -> Navigate
> there are millions of things you can choose to go to, but nowhere
> something like "last (edit) position".
> You CAN insert a bookmark and then jump to that bookmark, but to my mind
> this is a rather clumsy way of
> achieving what was so elegant in Wordperfect.
>
> Is there a trick to it?
> Something that would make this action quick and easy (preferrably
> automatic)?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>   

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