[Solved] Full screen view

[piproddis]

Hi,

I've just downloaded Open Office onto my mac and I'm wanting to know if you can make documents in Writer full screen in the same way as you can in Microsoft Office i.e. by clicking the blue arrows at the top right-hand corner of the screen (which makes it into a new desktop screen). I can make the document full screen no problem but it stays sitting on my desktop rather than becoming its own screen which I can then flick between with other documents (so I can't have multiple documents open at one time).

Apologies for my lack of technical vocab - hope that makes sense! Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[jrkrideau]

View > Full Screen?

[MrProgrammer]

Hi, and welcome to the forum.

I'm wanting to know if you can make documents in Writer full screen in the same way as you can in Microsoft Office i.e. by clicking the blue arrows at the top right-hand corner of the screen (which makes it into a new desktop screen).

Writer is a different product than MicroSnot Office, so the procedures used for tasks are different. You enter full screen mode using View > Full Screen or ⌘⇑J. Exit full screen mode by clicking on the Full Screen toolbar button or using ⌘⇑J again.

I can make the document full screen no problem but it stays sitting on my desktop rather than becoming its own screen which I can then flick between with other documents (so I can't have multiple documents open at one time).

Of course you can have multiple documents open, however there is only one copy of OpenOffice running and so you'll only see OpenOffice once if you switch applications with ⌘Tab. I'm guessing that is what you mean by "flick". Actually you can have multiple text documents, multiple spreadsheets, multiple presentations, multiple databases, etc. all open at the same time. Just use File > New > {DocType} as many times as desired. See example below. If you're not in full screen mode, you switch among the windows by either:

• Clicking on the window, as long as the window isn't completely covered by other OpenOffice windows, or
• Using ⌘`, the same keyboard shortcut that you would use to switch between documents in other Mac applications, or
• Using the Window menu, the same menu that you would use to switch between documents in other Mac applications.

If you're in full screen mode, the last of these options is not available because full screen mode hides the menus at the top of the screen.

Because I find it inconvenient to have the menus hidden, I seldom use full screen mode. Instead, I simply resize the window so that it takes up the entire screen. Then I have the last two window switching methods available. Note, in the picture, that the Impress (presentation) document will occupy almost the entire screen when it's active. I keep the dock visible too, but on the right side of the screen since there is more screen available left-to-right than there is top-to-bottom. However you can even hide the dock without full screen mode. Either use ⌘⇑D or  > System Preferences > Dock > Automatically hide and show the dock or Control Click the dock separator and use Turn Hiding On.

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[oneota]

I don't see ⌘ when I open "view."

[robleyd]

That is a Mac key - if you are using Windows, using the Window menu option in OpenOffice will allow you to change between your open documents.