Description: A test fileof approximately 12000 characters has been prepared. If the cursor is placed near the start of the file for example at the character "8" 6 lines down, then a blank space is entered and the file saved and closed, on reopening it will be at the last saved position - character "8". If the cursor is placed near the end of the file, before the last word "baaaay", entering a blank and then saving and exiting. On reopening the file the cursor will be placed at the top of the file, some 12,000 characters before the correct position. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open the enclosed test file 2.place the cursor at the end of the file before the last word "baaaay" 2.enter a blank space 3.save the file 4.exit Writer 5. double click the file to open it in Writer Actual Results: The cursor is at the top of the file Expected Results: The cursor should have been at the end of the file before the word "baaaay" Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: (1) When editing this test file to make it shorter, the problem would disappear when most of the text in the mid of the file was deleted. (2) When preparing a different short test file with (anchored to page) graphics the cursor position stopped defaulting to the top. (3) On removing the graphics the last saved cursor function was then working as expected.
Created attachment 157634 [details] It is an ODT file containing circa 12,000 characters, no graphics. The text has been anonymized
One other aspect, viewing a document in "Normal" view produces the correct behaviour (cursor placed at last saved position) more often than viewing a document in "Webview". I have another file where this is highly reproducible, Normal view it works, Webview it doesn't. However the amount of content and type e.g. graphics and graphics and text also seem to play a role.
Hugh, there might be something wrong with your file, because I can't enter e blank page with Strg + enter or Insert > Page break (it only produces a new paragraph)
(In reply to Dieter from comment #3) > Hugh, there might be something wrong with your file, because I can't enter e > blank page with Strg + enter or Insert > Page break (it only produces a new > paragraph) Hi Dieter, Very strange, I went back just now to the file placed the cursor after the character "8" on page 2, and entered COMMAND + ENTER. It placed a new page after 8, the text starting "aaaat" is now on page 3 and 8 is still on page 2. Also using the menu commands INSERT + PAGE BREAK works fine. To produce a new paragraph also works fine, I just need to enter SHIFT +ENTER That was on an macOS(10.15.3)(Catalina) with LO 6.4.0.3 I double checked on a Windows 10 system with LO 6.3.2.2, and everything behaved the same way as the Macbook. Here I entered the Ctrl+ENTER..... One thought I sent you a rather big file. I had first tried to make it smaller and remove confidential information. I did this page by page, checking each time and noticed that at a certain point the problem seemed to disappear. The best I could do was to note that if the cursor was near the end of the file the problem would reappear, if placed near the beginning of the file the problem would disappear. Beginning and end of the file meant within a few characters of the absolute end and beginning of the 12000 character file. Have you any suggestions how to check the integrity of the file, for all other aspects it seems to work fine? or is there anything else I can do to help?
Sorry Hugh, my fault, I read "blank page" instead of "blank space" in your steps and haven' t seen, that it is in WebView I could reproduce the problem with Version: 7.0.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) Build ID: eeb2d19e77d6dc47c68e8ba0920a02cf64a1247b CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 18363; UI render: default; VCL: win; Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI-Language: en-GB Calc: threaded and also with Version: 6.3.4.2 (x64) Build-ID: 60da17e045e08f1793c57c00ba83cdfce946d0aa CPU-Threads: 4; BS: Windows 10.0; UI-Render: Standard; VCL: win; Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE); UI-Sprache: de-DE Calc: threaded
Setting this as OS all, as it was confirmed on Windows Prioritizing based on the QA flow chart
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Still present in Version: 7.4.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 95b80365218f9406a5d952c1250d53222d319000 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: de-DE Calc: CL Steps: 1.Open attachment 157634 [details] 2.place the cursor at the end of the file and type at least one character 3.save the file and close document 4.Reopen file
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 116099 ***