Bug 139093 - Navigation TB, make BACK and FORWARD navigation commands more discoverable?
Summary: Navigation TB, make BACK and FORWARD navigation commands more discoverable?
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2020-12-20 12:39 UTC by R. Green
Modified: 2020-12-20 16:43 UTC (History)
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Description R. Green 2020-12-20 12:39:34 UTC
Version: 7.0.0.3 (x64)
Build ID: 8061b3e9204bef6b321a21033174034a5e2ea88e
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19042; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-GB
Calc: threaded

A very useful function but so easy to miss. I speak from experience, having only just discovered the buttons, despite the fact that the need for them has frequently arisen in navigating through long documents (hundreds of pages).

Perhaps BACK and FORWARD could also be added to the VIEW menu or the navigator? They also need to be discoverable in the helpfiles (couldn't find them).

(P.S. BACK and FORWARD are also known as "Previous view" and "Next view" in other applications.)
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2020-12-20 16:43:07 UTC
That is the 'Navigation' toolbar, it activates context sensitive (appended to the Standard TB) when you add a reminder or bookmark to a document. But it is flawed.

see bug 115817

It remains a useful counter-point to the "modal" 'Find bar' and the reworked 'Navigator' UI.

'Back' & 'Forward' movements with the Navigation TB will sequence between all its stack entries, while the modal Find bar and Navigator 'Previous' & 'Next' moves between objects of just the active mode. 

Current exposure of the 'Navigation' TB is sufficient, and pending work on bug 115817, no reason to do more with it.

=> WFM