default writer template please?

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#1

I'm using LO 4.2.7.2 and have accidentally got a default document display that's two pages side-by-side. If I open a file of a single page I get the left page showing as blank then have to scroll right to get to the page of text. Can anyone tell me either what I did wrong or how to reset the page (the default template I suppose?) to the way it displays out of the box?

Dave

#2

It may be different on your system, but all the LOs I am familiar with (4.3.6.2 here at the moment; /Curtains//7)/ show, on the bottom bar, just to the left of the magnification slider, 3 mini icon-ettes in the form of page outlines.

Click the left-most, singular one, and you should regain nirvana.

I don't think that this option qualifies as a "template", but in any case you don't have to go plowing through the template department to restore singularity.

#3

Quoting V Stuart Foote <VStuart.Foote@utsa.edu>:

Yes, have a look at the status bar, bottom edge right. It sounds like you
have placed your Writer View layout into "Book view "mode, two pages as in
an open book--odd on right, evens on left (in RTL). Select one of the other
icons.

Through 4.4 builds, the center two-page icon of "View mode" is default.
But current master development builds have renamed that "Multiple-page
view", and set the one-page icon for "Single-page view" as new default.

yes it was the view setting, I somehow didn't see it in the view menu but clicking on the little icon did the trick. Thanks all!

Dave

#4

Dave Stevens wrote:

Quoting V Stuart Foote <VStuart.Foote@utsa.edu>:

Yes, have a look at the status bar, bottom edge right. It sounds like you
have placed your Writer View layout into "Book view "mode, two pages
as in
an open book--odd on right, evens on left (in RTL). Select one of the
other
icons.

Through 4.4 builds, the center two-page icon of "View mode" is default.
But current master development builds have renamed that "Multiple-page
view", and set the one-page icon for "Single-page view" as new default.

yes it was the view setting, I somehow didn't see it in the view menu
but clicking on the little icon did the trick. Thanks all!

Dave

I think these are the options under View > Zoom... > Zoom... > View Layout.

Perhaps you didn't look deep enough, since it's not entirely obvious that these view layout options would be with the zoom options. I guess they are kind of related, since the two-page layout tends to be most useful when zoomed to fit the two pages on screen. As you've found, it's not so helpful with larger scales since you then have to scroll left/right as well as up/down to get around the document.

Mark.