Re: [libreoffice-users] Returning to the previous position in a document after reopening [was: Question about LO Writer ...]

On 2015/07/27 12:30, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 16:36 26/07/2015 -0600, Jerry Gonly wrote:
> > ... I am using LO to read fiction which is downloaded from the 
> > internet to my computer. Reading a long novel (>500 pages) and losing 
> > your place when closing the book sucks. The work around that I 
> > developed was to insert a string of "X" at the cursor point before 
> > closing the novel. Then on reopening the book, having to do a search 
> > for the string.
>
> Remember there is a simpler way - which does not require modification 
> of the text.
>
> To set a bookmark:
> o Go to Insert | Bookmark... or click the Bookmark button on the 
> Insert toolbar. (You could set a keyboard shortcut for this action if 
> you preferred, of course.)
> o Name the bookmark.
>
> To return to the bookmark, either:
> o Open the Navigator and double-click the bookmark name.
> Or (more easily):
> o Right-click the Page Number area at the left of the Status Bar and 
> click the bookmark name.
>
> o Shift+F5 ("Restore Editing View") should return to the last editing 
> position - but this won't help for a document that you are merely 
> reading and not modifying, of course.
>
> Here's another idea: export your text to PDF and display it in Adobe 
> Reader. There is a Preferences setting in Adobe Reader to "Restore 
> last view settings when reopening documents". I suspect this applies 
> only to those documents in the "recently used" list, but you can also 
> configure how many documents that contains.
>
> Brian Barker
Good afternoon
I have been struggling with this for many years too.
(and I second the opinion "it sucks")

Although the offered solutions are "OK", they are still "clumsy".
Many years ago I used to work with WordPerfect.
It had a very simple AND convenient function of inserting a "quick mark" 
at the cursor position whenever you save a file.
And there was a shortcut key to return to this location.
So sweat; no naming of bookmarks; no entering strings of characters and 
doing a search etc.

If this was so easy decades ago, I fail to see, why we have to struggle 
in this hi-tech age with all cumbersome "work arounds".
Thomas

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