Split screen

[jcamp]

I have one question about split screens. Can I do it?

[pluby]

[jcamp]

A Writer Document window. I need to know if I can view one document while writing on another. Thanks for the reply.

[narf]

Unfortunately there is no feature in NeoOffice 2.2.5 or NeoOffice 3.0 Early Access 2 that allows for two files to be edited within one NeoOffice Writer window.

As a workaround you can open the two files files and resize them to share your desktop, either horizontally or vertically.

If you are interested in requesting this as a new feature, please contact OpenOffice.org. NeoOffice is based on the OpenOffice.org office suite. Any suggestions for new features should be directed to Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice.org engineers.

Unfortunately, our very limited funding and developer resources limits the current scope of the NeoOffice project to keeping a native version of OpenOffice.org running on Mac OS X and making significant changes to OpenOffice.org features is outside that scope.

You can file a feature request in the OpenOffice.org issue tracker to get it on the radar of the core OpenOffice.org developers and if they add this feature, the new behavior will get included in a future release of NeoOffice:

http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html

Note : our advice is to not mention NeoOffice as mentioning NeoOffice may cause OOo volunteers to accidentally close it without actually reviewing your bug.

--fran

[sardisson]

[jcamp]

Okay, thanks guys. I'll fiddle with it and come up with something.
-Josh

[GibHenry]

I know that in Calc, you can split (and optionally freeze) the window so that info on each side of the split can be independently scrolled at right angles to the direction of the split.

I'd like to be able to split a Writer document window, e.g. to view page 33 while editing page 66. I know MS Word (5.1a, the last one I ever used) could do that, but a review of the Help feature and NeoWiki don't have any info about it, so I gather it's not possible in Neo (or Open) Office, right? Cheers,

[James3359]

You can't split a single window, but you can have two separate windows open on the same document at different places. You can open a New Window from the Window menu and place it as you wish on your screen. If you are short of space you can close some of the toolbars on the 'viewing' window to maximise the space available for displaying your document.

[Edited to correct menu name.]

[GibHenry]

[James3359]

Yes, Window>New Window - not View , sorry for any confusion. It was rather late at night here, and I didn't open NO to check. I've edited my post so that it doesn't show incorrect info. Glad you got there.