[FEATURE REQUEST] Go back to last cursor position

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This is still important and still needed, separately from bookmarks. you jump from positions to other positions repeatedly while working with text documents, so, adding bookmark each time is not practical. Also suppose that, you added a cross referance, you ctrl-clicked on that, you went to that section. You want to return to where you came. So, something like: Go Back, Go Forward, just like browsers, but movement in text, would be very nice feature. I need this feature very much.

1. Turn on macro´s in LibreOffice. Tools / Options / LibreOffice / Advanced
2. Create a macro that inserts a special character eg #. Save as lastposition1
3. Create a macro that searches for this character and deletes it. (use the delete function in the menu). Save as lastposition2
4. Go to Tools / Customize / Events and select Save in LibreOffice. The name of the current document is the default saving position. Great! But this is a function you want to use for all documents.
5. Assign the macro´s in opendocument (lastposition2) and and saving document (lastposition1).

When you close LibreOffice it will ask is you want to save your document, even if you have not changed a thing for it will add the special character # before closing. This way you will always find yourself in the position in the document where you last changed something.

@Alex Kemp gave the perfect answer for me in the comment to the question - thank you:

If the user does NOT fill out their personal info (menu:- ToolsOptionsLibreOfficeUser DataFirst/last name/initials) then, when re-opening a previous file, it will open at the beginning of the file; filling out personal info will open it at the last saved position. In the 1st case pressing Shift+F5 moves to last saved position. This feature is already almost in place.

You could work with Bookmarks (not as easy as F3) but it might do the trick.

Menue:Insert>Bookmark where you want to leave, give it a name.

After you are done Navigator, Bookmarks select yours and you are back or right-click on Page field in statusbar and select it from there (faster).

EDIT-ADDON:

1) This forum is for User-to-User help. Feature Requests should be filed here.

2) Your request is probably not doable in a document envirement. Other than a browser where you jump between documents/url here you have to jump between many cursor positions. How should a programmer know to which last position to go?? Example: You work on page 1, now you need somthing on page 100. How do you go to P100? Pressing page down changes your last cursor position 100 times; using the vertical slider would work - you don't touch the cusor position-. Now you start editing on page 100 -> changing last cursor position constantly and then you want to go back to page 1quick; which is your last cursor position??????

When I was working with my old TurboPascal / Delphi there was a nice quick bookmarking which would be nice to have here. With Ctrl-0 to Ctrl-9 you set a bookmark and with Shift+Ctrl+0 to 9 you could jump to the bookmark. Quick and easy.

You should notice that this forum is not the appropriate place for feature requests and also not for bug reports.

There is this site where you can find threads already pertaining to your concern. You also may create an account and subsequently file additional bug reports and feature requests (which are handled there in exactly the same way).

Hi

A dedicated toolbar already exists to navigate (Back- Forward) in the navigation history (in the titles).

Menu View Toolbars Navigation.

Example of use: open a document containing titles, display the navigator, double-click on a title to display the paragraph, double-click on another title. You can use the buttons to return to the previous.

Note: this tool does not store the action "go to a page number" with the navigator.

Regards

What do you mean by "last position in the text"?
a) The last character in file? CTRL+END.
b) Last position in line: END c) Some other position: Insert | Bookmark. And then jump to bookmark by right click on status bar "Page" on bottom-left.

Please explain in detail what is "last position". Please write your LibreOffice version and operating system name/version.