Bug 140588 - Unexpected Self-Scrolling of Document to Cursor Position
Summary: Unexpected Self-Scrolling of Document to Cursor Position
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.0.4.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2021-02-22 02:24 UTC by Bob
Modified: 2022-02-16 14:54 UTC (History)
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Description Bob 2021-02-22 02:24:56 UTC
Description:
When you scroll through a lengthy document, then make a change by clicking, for example, the Toggle Automatic Spell Checking, the page zips back to wherever the cursor was before you started scrolling (sometimes dozens of pages away from where you were), which means that if you cannot recall precisely where you were at in your scrolling through the document before you clicked, for example, the Toggle Automatic Spell Checking, you are at that point lost. It’s very annoying—not to mention causes you a lot of unnecessary work trying to figure out where you were in your scrolling process. The only “fix” being to remember to click somewhere in the page first, something that is foreign to other available word processors.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a lengthy Writer document
2. Deselect Toggle Automatic Spell Checking
3. Go to a page and place the cursor somewhere on that page
4. Scroll through the document many pages removed from the cursor position
5. Click on the Toggle Automatic Spell Checking icon

Actual Results:
Watch the document self-scroll to the page you had the cursor located before you started scrolling.

Expected Results:
The page should stay displayed at the point you stopped scrolling regardless of where the cursor was located before you started scrolling.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 7.0.4.2 (x64)
Build ID: dcf040e67528d9187c66b2379df5ea4407429775
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19042; UI render: default; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Telesto 2021-02-22 12:22:11 UTC
Are we talking about automatic spell checking or 'Spell Checking' (F7). F7 does have the tendency to jump to cursor

Which really strange, IMHO [there plenty of these, some solved already]
Comment 2 Bob 2021-02-22 16:51:35 UTC
(In reply to Telesto from comment #1)
> Are we talking about automatic spell checking or 'Spell Checking' (F7). F7
> does have the tendency to jump to cursor
> 
> Which really strange, IMHO [there plenty of these, some solved already]

I was indicating Shift+F7, NOT F7. I just rechecked this issue and I could NOT get it to do what it was consistently doing last night (100% repeatable), although I cannot remember which specific document I was working on at the time (although it would be really weird if it only affected some LO Writer documents--not all such documents). It makes sense that F7 would do this I suppose, but not Shift+F7, but the point is moot if I cannot duplicate it this morning. It never occurred to me to check other Writer documents, for example those originating in Writer verses 
those that originated in Word or as webpage documents. I just tried a variety of all of those and could NOT get it to duplicate what I was seeing last night. I was really tired last night when I discovered and wrote up this issue, but I was not hallucinating.
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2022-02-16 14:54:46 UTC
Based on the last comment, let's close. If you still see this (with the latest version), you can set back to unconfirmed. In this case it would be best, if you attached an example document. You can sanitise the doc before attaching https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Sanitizing_Files_Before_Submission