Terrible display hopping in Writer

stgries · General User Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 26

A complaint (and request for whether and how that can be fixed/avoided):

So, I look at p. 82-84 of a 152 page document, Print Layout, 68% so I can see and read these three full pages, and I see the upper third of the next three pages below them. I click on a location in the document, the cursor goes there, I can edit, all perfect. Then I press CTRL and scroll up 1 step (mouse wheel) to magnify, and the fking display jumps to p. 56. And I have scroll back 1 step, and then out 2 steps, it jumps to 109-112. Yes, the cursor is still at the position it was before but I cant be asking to much when I want the thing to also SHOW me the same pages.

Now can anyone tell me whether this annoyance is supposed to be a feature and/or how I can avoid this?

ftack · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 4:06 am Post subject:

You are indeed pointing to a fking bug. When the display zooms in to display only one page, the location of the cursor obviously should be in display.

You documented this bug very well, and it is reproducible. It is therefore worthwile filing it as an issue at www.openoffice.com.

As a work around, you may press an arrow key (e.g. left, right), which will redisplay the active area on screen.
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