Writer Navigator single mouse click navigation (like in MS Word)...?

[golemus]

Hello. I have long documents full of headings. I am used to navigating in such way that when I single-click a heading with mouse the document jumps to that heading. This is how it works in e.g. MS Word and Foxit Reader.

LibreOffice default behavior seems to be that you have to double click a heading to reach the same end result. This makes navigation more laborous. Is there some way to change the behaviour so that single click of a heading instead of a double click jumps to corresponding position in document…?

Thank You.

[Hrbrgr]

You can please report the behavior as a Proposed change in Bugzilla .

See also:

How to Report Bugs in LibreOffice (also: Proposed change).
Please announce the link from the bug here.
To do this, edit your initial question.
Thank you.

[ajlittoz]

I don’t think your request can be accepted: the Navigator is not used exclusively to navigate in the document. A great feature is its ability to reorganise the document by selecting a heading with a simple click and dragging it or applying promotion/demotion to it. When you restructure your document, you don’t automatically need to scroll to the heading (and it can even be counter-productive).

Consequently, there is a reason to make a distinction between single-click (selection) and double-click (jump).

You could perhaps suggest an additional single-gesture command as a replacement (central-click? but this is not fully reliable because of the easily triggered wheel movement).

[golemus]

You can drag/drop elements in Navigator of MS Word and Foxit Reader and still navigate with single clicks so the former does not exclude the latter.

Even if it did it would be not complicated to implement e.g. a button to upper part of navigator which switches betweeen “edit mode” and “view mode” and the latter would have single click feature enabled.