[Issue] How can I open 2 documents simultaneously?

[KathrinA]

Hey everybody,

Ever since I got my Macbook Air (OS.X. 10.8.5.) and installed Open Office 4.1. on it I have not been able to open two odt documents side by side and work in one of them while the other is open. When I click or type in one of the opened documents the other automatically gets minimised to the dock. Do you have any idea what settings I have to change so that this doesn't happen?

Thank you very much for your help.

Best wishes,

Kathrin

[RoryOF]

You should be able to shrink each document to half screen size by pulling their window frame. Then both should remain open at that size.

[Hagar Delest]

You've indeed to open the 2 documents and resize both windows.
See also: [Issue] How to edit pages side-by-side using OOo Writer?
You should vote for the issues (19291 & 91001). The one you need is 91001.

[KathrinA]

Hi you guys,

Thanks for this advice but I have tried exactly that and although I resized both windows, when I click on one the other one automatically gets minimised to the dock.

[RoryOF]

Certainly working OK on Xubuntu 13.10 with OO 4.0.1. There may be a Mac setting to mimimise unused windows which needs to be turned off.

[KathrinA]

I would be interested in what settings exactly need to be changed? I chatted with an apple support service member and he told me the problem is open office and that there is nothing that has to be changed in the apple settings.

[lgusaas]

I can open two documents and size them to be side by side. I can work on either one, neither is minimized to the dock.
Works on both my MacBook Pro with OS X ver.10.9.1 and my MacBook with OS X ver. 10.6.8

I don't know of any setting in AOO that would change that.

[RoryOF]

I did a little Googling: there appear to be utilities that will minimise unused Mac programs to the dock - perhaps one of these is already installed? I also came across reference to a setting in Safari that seemed to do the same.