Bug 34515

I believe such a function should be available for all LibO applications or no one, but not only for WRITER.

@ Fahad Al-Saidi
This function is more or less implemented, a document will reopen with the view you saw when you saved the document the last time. 

It seems you want a function that stores latest view independent from document contents?

Please contribute information concerning your OS and Platform!

(In reply to comment #1)
> I believe such a function should be available for all LibO applications or no
> one, but not only for WRITER.
> 
> @ Fahad Al-Saidi
> This function is more or less implemented, a document will reopen with the view
> you saw when you saved the document the last time. 
> 
> It seems you want a function that stores latest view independent from document
> contents?
> 
> Please contribute information concerning your OS and Platform!

I don't get what you mention here, I am using Kubuntu 10.10 and LibreOffice 3.3. In other machine which is windows os I downloaded LibreOffice Portable and same thing. 

Every time I have to start a scrolling down form the beginning of the document to reach the last point and there is no difference in editing or viewing mode.

[Reproducible] with "LibreOffice 3.3.2RC2  – WIN7  Home Premium  (64bit) German UI [OOO330m19 (Build:202 / tag 3.3.2.2)]". Most documents open with focus to the top of the first page, some with focus to somewhere on the first page, with a sample of 10 documents today I had no one what started with the focus before I closed it. 
Currently I can not tell when it started for me that I have the same behavior as reported.
Same problem with DRAW and Presentation, but ok with CALC.

You need to enter some info on Tools → Options → LibreOffice → User data: if that info match the file's author info the document will open on the last edited point.

(In reply to comment #4)
> You need to enter some info on Tools → Options → LibreOffice → User data: if
> that info match the file's author info the document will open on the last
> edited point.

Thanks for the hint but this will put you on last place you edited it. What I want to put me on last page I read it like Okular and Evince

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reproduced on LibO 3.5.0 beta 1

*** Bug 42686 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Copy-paste explanation how to solve problem:
Normally it works if you have defined your identity data in Tools > Options >
LibreOffice > Identity data (after the modification, restart LibO including the
quickstarter).

Yes, it's related to User data and Author information in document, but currently I do not know all details (for example concerning manually added author information, ...), I will do some research later

the requested behaviour is a change of, or addition to the current one > enhancement

*** Bug 44537 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This feature should be implemented ASAP I think. Every time I must scroll down and find the place I left reading.

I remember a period (don't exactly which version but i was still using OpenOffice a that time and it was probably release 3.x) when OpenOffice "remember" the last editing/viewing position when saving.
When you reopen the document, the viewing/editing was restored, that was fine.

Now, LibreOffice (since 4.x but even before) open the document and position the edit/view at the beginning.
Very annoying when working every day on the same long document, have to remember where we're then...

And yes this "function" works when you fill the user form (in Preferences, or Tool/option) but it also must work when it's not filled.
I assume not a lot of people fill-in this form.

The logic behind this behaviour seems to be collaborative: if a group of people is working together on a document, each of them would like to have it opening at the specific place where HE/SHE left it, not the other members of the group. For this, the file saves where it was closed last by each specific author, and it is reopened at that place depending on the author that is opening it. If you work on it as an anonymous, nothing about where you left is saved.