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Greetings to the OO Community!

I am new around and hope i don't annoy you with being awfully stupid about this.

I was using OOv2.2 and since i upgraded to v2.3 it seems as if the position of the document has moved so as to be centered in the OO main window (main frame). In the previous version it was aligned with the left border, which was very comfortable, since all those tool windows (the Navigator, Styles and Formatting, Formula Selection, etc.) had enough room on the right side of the document i was currently editing. Now the tool windows overlap my document and i have this big unused space at the left of the document.

The only solution i could find up util now, was to have the tool windows be smaller in their width. Restoring the main window from its default maximized state to the (let's call it) windowed state and making the frame window only so wide that all of the document can be seen would have been ok, if it weren't for the toolbars which would thus have been obscured.

I hope i could make my problem clear and i am sure that it can be resolved by some simple change of setting in the preferences which i seem uncapable of finding (neither in OO nor in your beautiful community forums).

Thank you all in advance!

If only you knew how much trouble we had on the old forum with people asking for the document to be centred in the Window — just like Word.

See my tutorial on Docking Palettes. You may find that arrangement more comfortable.

You can also dock toolbars on the side of the screen and have more vertical space.

Hi!

Docking the tool windows is even better still! Thanks a lot for your quick support!

Yes i can imagine that this centering must have been an immensely sought after "feature". But i thought that it was just a matter of moving the (complete) ruler (-control) over its background panel to reposition the document within the parent window. But now i get a sense of lots of features being implemented already, and only a lack of (obvious) interfaces to access them . I play around a lot with different key-combinations and am an avid reader of the keyboard (-shortcuts) list in the customisation preferences dialog, always on the look-out for some nice time-saving finger-excercise, but i'd never have found out how to dock a window .

Thanks again!

(I guess i should change the title to [solved] or something? Or is it something only moderators can?)

See you around!

lipsticks wrote:(I guess i should change the title to [solved] or something? Or is it something only moderators can?)

Yes, you should. And not only moderators can do that. Each poster can edit his own posts (see the edit button top right of the message. To change the thread title, edit the first post of the thread.

Done it. Thanks!