It used to be when I left writer and came back in, writer would go to where I left off. This was very helpful as I have very large files that I use for my class notes and am always editing them sequentially through the term. Is this no longer true?
Yes it is true. It is a bug that should be fixed with LO 4.4. Hang in there!!!
If I am not wrong I think is needed put something in the user data.
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