Separate Ubuntu Dock Icons

[Bookscrounger]

I often have a half-dozen LibreOffice documents open, writer, calc, maybe others; some of them (my ‘to do’ lists, current writing projects, files in calc) I keep open all the time. Currently, they all show up under a single icon in the Ubuntu menu bar. That makes it difficult to move among documents quickly.

1. Is there any way to modify Ubuntu to open a separate dock icon for each open document?

2. Is there any way to assign different Ubuntu dock icons to certain open documents, even something as minor as assigning a different color?

Ubuntu 24.04.01 LTS
Libreoffice 24.2

[Villeroy]

Dock icons start applications. The Nautilus file manager can be used to collect favorite documents in a “Favorites” folder. This folder contains links to your favorite documents whereever they are stored. I have one dock icon for the LibreOffice start center with the recent documents. In the start center, you can also pin documents to keep them permanently on top.

[Bookscrounger]

Thanks. You are correct, the dock icons launch applications. Once the applications are open, the dock icons also serve as navigation tools to move among them, and that is the problem I am trying to solve.

I will look at the Nautilus file manager, it sounds useful, but if I understand your description, it is still presents a multi-step process to move among open files.

Thanks again.

[Villeroy]

The “Super” key (usually the one with the Windows symbol) shows all open windows.
Alt+Tab or Super+Tab switches between application windows.
Alt+^ (above Tab) switches between windows of same application.
Super+3 selects the window of the 3rd application on the dock. Super+3,3 lets you select between multiple windows of the 3rd application on the dock.
Within LibreOffice, the Window menu lets you switch between LibreOffice windows.