** Reply to message from webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <[email protected]> on Fri, 27 May 2011 15:53:44 -0400
> 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. Organizationally I can see it as being useful. Are you aware that, at least in Win. that you can move between documents using Alt+tab? I find that much faster than trying to use a mouse. If you have a bunch of tasks running it's not so handy, but normally you are only switching between a few windows and it is very quick. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
