For some time now there has been a bug in LibreOffice that results in Writer not opening large files at the last-used position. I noticed this behaviour on my maintenance log file which is over 150 pages of fairly dense text. Rather than re-opening the file at the end, where I last edited the text, Writer displays a page somewhere mid-document, e.g. at p. 116 in my most recent attempt. This behaviour has been reported as a bug since at least 2021 but has yet to be fixed. The following are two workarounds:
(1) For my purposes, I usually want to open a working document at the end of the file. This is readily achieved by opening the file and pressing Ctrl-End.
(2) A similar result may be achieved (see Comment 62 by elias.baalholm in Bugzilla Report No, 140147) for users wishing to return to the last used position in the open file by pressing Shift-F5.
While not ideal, these manual operations will at least allow users to process their word-processing files more efficiently until the bug in LibreOffice is fixed.
References:
Bug 140147 – Position of cursor not saved correctly
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140147
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