Source
Users

Category
Usability

Product Requirement 
By default, a OOo document should open  at the beginning, not (as currently)
where the cursor was positioned when the document was last saved.

Customer Need/Problem
When the user opens a document it is not opened to the top positon. Instead the
view is scrolled to the last cursor postition. This behavior is confusing for
the user.

Comment
LHO: We can change this. Makes sense from my point of view. My sense is that it
takes some more research, on how competing applications actually handles this
situation across all the three file types (spreadsheets, text documents, and
presentations), e.g. I just found out that Word doesn't just set the cursor to
the beginning of a doc, but saves the last editing position as well (use
Shift-F5 to jump to that position).  Also, I want to explore the aspect of
interoperability on this matter. My intend is to invest into researching this
stuff only once, specify it as completely as possible, even though we might
decide to first implement just the basics. But researching their features in
depth is a very costly task, that I only want to do once. Since I cant free any
resources in the Geordi timeframe, we have to shift this to Q.
The OpenOffice.org CUI team discussed the issue at
http://ui.openoffice.org/protocols/protocol_2002-09-19.html

Eng Owner
Matthias Mueller-Prove

Product Concept
In general OOo 2.0 opens documents on the first page/slide/sheet with the cursor
at the first position. Exceptions to this rule are derived from competing
applications (cf. LHOs comments) as well as from the editing situation of the
user (cf. CUI meeting in comments).

Functional Specification
http://specs.openoffice.org/writer/open_doc_behavior/OpenDocumentBehavior.sxw