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    Switching between multiple Writer docs in Libre office

    Installed Ubuntu 11.04, so far I'm still unsure but willing to give it a chance to win me over.

    One issue that is bugging me is re. switching between multiple libreoffice Writer documents.

    In pre-unity days I could see the names of the various documents I had open in the bar along the bottom and thus easily switch to the one I wanted.

    With Unity, in order to switch I click on the side bar button and get nice zoomed out view of all open libreoffice docs. The probmlem is that zoomed out it is hard to tell from the pics which doc is which. There are no names appending each doc.

    See attached pictures for illustration.

    Anyone know any work around to make this better? (other than just switching back to classic)
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    Re: Switching between multiple Writer docs in Libre office

    The easiest way is to click the panel button for the text writer application again after it is displayed. When you view the panel, it will show multiple ticks on the left side of the button. This shows that there are multiple documents. Clicking the button while the application is active (works for most applications in addition to Libre) will show thumbnail type screens of each adjacent to one another. Just click on the one you want.

    It is a kind of cool way to do it. I'm still getting used to it.

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    Re: Switching between multiple Writer docs in Libre office

    I've just realised there is a 'window' option in the tool bar that lists open documents by name. Issue solved.

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    Re: Switching between multiple Writer docs in Libre office

    the same thing annoys me. can you explain the solution better?

    thanks

    Quote Originally Posted by noteviljoe View Post
    I've just realised there is a 'window' option in the tool bar that lists open documents by name. Issue solved.

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    Re: Switching between multiple Writer docs in Libre office

    See piccy
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    Re: Switching between multiple Writer docs in Libre office

    never mind... i see it... btw about clicking on unity taskbar and then libreoffice icon which brings you to thumbnails screen of all the documents... the thumbnails are so small that u can't tell which documents is which and they keep moving around as you use different documents and as you go between them using arrows you can't tell on which one you are because they don't get highlighted except if you look at the title of the documents... annoying...

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    Re: Switching between multiple Writer docs in Libre office

    thanks the Cog

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    Re: Switching between multiple Writer docs in Libre office

    needless to say i'm still getting used to the Unity interface... in the long run i'm sure i'm gonna appreciate it but it's always a hassle to get used to the new thing and keep re-learning things you already knew how to do with the old version ;-s

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    Re: Switching between multiple Writer docs in Libre office

    I appreciate for instance how the Unity minimizes distractions... when i have office document open all i see is office which helps not to get distracted by other nonsense...

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    Re: Switching between multiple Writer docs in Libre office

    press
    alt + `
    you can switch over files between the same applications.

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