Fairly often, when launching Writer the app ignores window dimensions of my most recently edited document, so I have to resize it to make it usable.
This seems contrary to my experience with many other Windows apps.
Is there a Preference to “fix” this unproductive behavior? Thanks.
If you create a shortcut for Writer then the window sizes for Writer will be in reverse order to the order in which they were closed. So, if you closed Document A, then B then C (last document), then window sizes for the next 3 documents will be that for C, B and finally for the third document opened, A.
Thanks for responding. Allow me to elaborate: I have a Writer icon on the task bar, along with usual suspects like email client, browser, pdf viewer. When I click the Writer icon - like, of course, I want to create a new document, it appears the Writer window always appears as approx 1420x740, as I trust you will agree rather unsuitable for editing a blank document. Once in that state, if I then open a recent document, it is shoehorned into that geometry, even if I never edited it with those window dimensions.
OK, close Writer. Click taskbar icon. Blank document now appears with window geometry that I set.
Here’s my confusion: since I never edited a document in that strange landscape-proportion geometry, why does Writer think that’s a good idea? And more importantly to eliminate this “digital paper cut” can I twist its arm to stop doing that?
If you open LibreOffice using the LibreOffice icon, the start page opens at that size. That size becomes one of the sizes for documents in that order of closing
Well your experience does not match mine. Had a document open in usable dimensions, closed it, clicked on LOWriter icon on taskbar, got the old “who in the world would use these dimensions for a document??” blank window. Then, open a recent document, and the same useless dimensions are used.
May I ask again:
- Is there a setting to say “here’s what I WOULD like?” and if not
- Please educate me how to file an enhancement request
Thank you
No, window size is managed by your operating system. Try changing the size of the window before maximising. This is how I can change the window size in Windows 11
- Open a new LibreOffice window, size it to suit. Then maximise it if wanted
- Open a new Writer document and another 2
- Close each window. Close the last Writer document by clicking the lower cross. Then close the LibreOffice window.
I have it set to open maximised and the windowed size at around 1900 x 1000
Solution
step 1
- Windows or Linux : Tools > Options
- MacOS : LibreOffice > Preferences
step 2
- Load/Save > General
- Check “Load view position with the document even if it was saved by a different user”
Explanation
If this box is not checked, LibreOffice will use the size of the “Start Center” window to open document windows, even though the Start Center is not a document.
This option was probably introduced to prevent people with larger screens from making the documents inaccessible on smaller screens, however it screws up document windows for people who only use one computer or who use two computers with similar sized screens (i.e. almost everybody)
Correct behaviour would be to use whatever size the last document of the same kind was closed (Text, Presentation, Drawing, etc.) on that particular computer AND to keep this option available for people who want documents to always appear where they left off that last time the document was saved