Navigation Toolbar not working for table

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#1

This is about the Navigation Toolbar (View->Toolbars->Navigation), not the Navigator side panel.

I’ve customized it to show “Navigate by” in addition to the default “Previous” and “Next” controls. I set it to navigate by tables but it does not do so. The “Next” is grayed out and both controls do not work.

I then tried it with a new Writer document, with two separate tables in it. It still did not work. What am I doing wrong?

The solution cannot be to use the Navigator side panel, as I need the side panel set to Styles while I go through my tables via the toolbar. (The solution also cannot be to open both Navigator and Styles as separate side panels. I found a way to do this by somehow managing to have Styles docked and Navigator undocked, whereupon LO crashed the first time I used Navigator in this way.)

I note the Navigator side panel when set to Tables works fine. I further note that when I set “Navigate by” on the toolbar to Tables, the Navigator side panel changes to Tables if it not already set as such (and vice versa).

Details: LO 7.2.7.2 on Windows 10.

#2

I’d assumed until now the navigation-toolbar will only work with base, where you have a database cursor and a “current-record”, but maybe I’m wrong…

#4

The Navigation toolbar is clearly fully integrated with Writer and the “Navigate by” command contains options like Footnotes that would not be applicable to Base.

#5

On further investigation, the Navigation toolbar does not work when “Navigate by” is set to Page, Footnote, Graphics, and Headings. I have not tried the other settings. Interestingly, on some of the settings, the Previous control is grayed out instead of the Next control.

#3

You could just add the commands To Next Table and To Previous Table to your Navigation toolbar. The Sidebar pane stays on Styles while clicking next table.

#6

“To next table” and “To previous table” do work and provide a temporary workaround. I would still like be able to use the Navigation toolbar so that I can use the other options in the side panel

#7

There is no general solution. Do not use Next and Previous on Navigation Toolbar.

It turns out that Next and Previous on Navigation Toolbar in Writer simply do not work. I had searched Ask LO on this before posting and did not find anything, so I assumed that I was doing something wrong. However, a searched of LO Bugzillz reveals these controls are not integrated (https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32869) and have UI issues (https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115817).

I find it almost incredible that LO Writer knowingly ships with broken Next and Previous controls. I have wasted over two hours trying to get this feature to work and investigating why it does not.

#8

You can help the developers by adding and confirming the entries on Bugzilla. Describe your exact situation, why the “Navigation” toolbar is so important for you. Possibly add a sample document where the problem can be reproduced.

Please avoid any polemics and present only the facts. The developers will thank you for it.

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