[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 34515] Writer should (optionally) remember and restore the last shown page (=not the same as edited!) of a document

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34515

--- Comment #18 from MartinPC <PeterCraigMartin+LO at Gmail.com> ---
In LibreOffice 6.x, I'm experiencing different behaviors in Windows and Linux,
and it doesn't appear to depend on the presence or absence of User Data in
LibreOffice's Options.

I have LibreOffice 6.0.5.2 installed on my Window 7 computer (a native,
bare-metal install). I recently built a Linux Mint 19 VirtualBox guest on that
computer, and LibreOffice 6.0.3.2 is the version in Linux Mint 19's repository.
To personalize LO in the Linux guest, I simply copied and pasted my LO profile
from Windows to Linux. Everything seems to work just fine, pretty much exactly
the same on both platforms, except for one thing:

When I reopen a previously edited ODT file in Windows, it always opens at the
beginning of the document. When I open a previously edited ODT file in Linux,
it opens at the position the cursor was located the last time the document was
saved.

Three things to note:

(1) This happens with *identical documents* -- not just identical copies, one
in Windows and one in Linux but *the exact same Windows files,* accessed on the
Windows file system by Linux via VirtualBox shared folders. (I don't think I've
ever saved any LO documents to the Linux virtual drive, since I have limited
virtual drive space to play with and don't want any documents to possibly end
up lost, trapped in a borked virtual machine.)

(2) It doesn't matter which OS I last *saved* the ODT file from. It always
opens at the beginning in Windows and it always opens at the previous cursor
position in Linux.

(3) This happened both *before* I entered any info in Tools > Options >
LibreOffice > User Data and it continues to happen now that I *have*.

My workaround in Windows has been to record macros that bookmark my reading,
editing, formatting, and spellchecking locations, followed by a save. When I
reopen the document, I just jump to the appropriate bookmark. (And since that's
actually more versatile and specific than just relying on the program to
automatically reopen at the last cursor location, I use these macros in Linux
as well.) But I nonetheless second the original bug-reporter's point, namely,
that it would be nice if documents reopened at the same location that was
displayed when the documents were closed, or at least saved, regardless of
where the cursor was located. It's quite easy to scroll your way through a
document, leaving the cursor *dozens of pages* behind the point at which you
want to resume reading.

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