Bug 111971

Summary: EDITING: Cursor position lost after saving and re-opening document
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Daniel <daniel>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG    
Severity: normal CC: daniel, ilmari.lauhakangas, jalojo
Priority: medium    
Version: 5.1.6.2 release   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Bug Blocks: 116376    

Description Daniel 2017-08-22 15:36:53 UTC 
Description:
As of version 5.1.6.2 on Linux Mint 18, LO Writer no longer remembers the last cursor position when saving. On re-opening a document, the cursor is always at the beginning of the document.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a Writer document and place the cursor anywhere but at the beginning.
2. Save and close the document.
3. Re-open the document.

Actual Results:  
The cursor is at the very beginning of the document.

Expected Results:
The cursor should be where it was when the document was saved.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: Yes, didn't solve the issue.

Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: de
Module: TextDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Linux (All)
OS is 64bit: yes
Builds ID: LibreOffice 5.1.6.2


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Comment 1 Jacques Guilleron 2017-08-22 16:14:16 UTC 
Hi Daniel,

If you didn't still done it,
Fill first your User data in
Tools > Options > LibreOffice
and this will work.

Thank you to confirm if this solves your issue.
Comment 2 Daniel 2017-08-22 18:09:05 UTC 
Hi Jacques,
entering my name in Tools > Options > LibreOffice did solve the issue indeed. It's still a strange kind of behaviour, as one wouldn't expect the two things to depend on each other. However, it works now, so you may as well set my request to Resolved.
Best, Daniel
Comment 3 Jacques Guilleron 2017-08-23 07:08:15 UTC 
Can you try Shift+F5?
This shortcut is set in Tools > Customize > Keyboard for: Restore Editing View. 
Regards
Jacques
Comment 4 Daniel 2017-08-23 08:09:07 UTC 
Hi Jacques,

Yes, that works as well. I've cleared my entries in Tools > Options > LibreOffice > User Data to restore the old (faulty) behaviour. When I press Shift+F5 now after opening a document, the cursor jumps to its correct position in the document. 

Best, Daniel
Comment 5 Buovjaga 2017-09-02 17:17:20 UTC 
Ok, let's close.