Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 58358
Sort bookmarks alphabetically or by position in Navigator
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
This is a defect, not an RFE; I can't remember if it worked properly before. Creaste a fairly long document, and then six or eight bookmarks in it. Within the Navigator, they are arranged in Ascii order (A-Z then a-z). This is extremely frustrating. What I want, often, is to know where they are within the document, so they should be ordered from first to last there.
It's an RFE: you *wish* to order the bookmarks following their positon in the document. Other users wish to have them sorted alphabetically to find them faster. So we may see it is possible to make those both wishes come true... Reassigned
Oh, well, technically speaking, I suppose it is an RFE :-)
if you want a list of bookmarks sorted by appearance in the document, use the context-menu on the statusbar-field that shows the page-number.
I really don't understand this suggestion. If I click on a bookmark and jump to it, obviously I will learn what page it is on. But that's no help in establishing the order of the bookmarks. I suppose I could incorporate the page number at the beginning of the bookmark name, and then bookmarks within the first nine pages would mostly sort properly, but that's an ugly kludge.
Use the context-menu, don't look at the page-number after jumping to a bookmark. right-click on the status-bar. see http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/26034/48668_bookmarks_screenshot.png
Thanks, Christian. That is very slick, and I hadn't found it in five years of using the program.
Note that they aren't even really sorted alphabetically the same: In Insert->Bookmark: a A b B c In Navigator: A B a b c In my opinion if they aren't going to be sorted by position then the two locations where they are shown should match for the format of 'alphabetically' that they are sorted.
*** Issue 90558 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
When adding a bookmark, the list of existing ones is alphabetical --good. When selecting a bookmark as hyperlink target, the list is not alphabetical --inconvenient. Apparently, it is ordered from first to last (which would please andrewb). Is there an option to switch to alphabetical ?