Editing a document (Writer)

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#1

I am editing a text document and it is displaying it as three tiny pages instead of a single page or part thereof to edit. My understanding is I have to 'unhide' my status bar so I can click some sort of icon that will put me back in text edit mode showing only the part of the page I am working on. The problem is how to I turn on my status bar? I checked all the other icons that I currently can see and none are the one described in the help online. Also, I am older and am used to being able to phone in a question. This is very frustrating that I had to spend over half an hour on this and get nowhere so, can you please provide a phone number ie. 1-800. Thank you.

#2

botaylor wrote:

I am editing a text document and it is displaying it as three tiny
pages instead of a single page or part thereof to edit. My
understanding is I have to 'unhide' my status bar so I can click some
sort of icon that will put me back in text edit mode showing only the
part of the page I am working on. The problem is how to I turn on my
status bar?

On the "View" menu, click "Status Bar" and the status bar should appear at the bottom of the window. You can do the same again if you want to hide it again later.

Alternatively, if I've understood the original problem correctly, you might be able to sort out the page view without needing the status bar... On the "View" menu, click "Zoom", then "100%" or "Entire Page" (or whatever setting suits you). The icons on the status bar are a quick way of accessing those features, so it may still be useful to unhide it.

I checked all the other icons that I currently can see and none are
the one described in the help online. Also, I am older and am used to
being able to phone in a question. This is very frustrating that I
had to spend over half an hour on this and get nowhere so, can you
please provide a phone number ie. 1-800. Thank you.

LibreOffice is free software, with free support mainly provided for users by users via this mailing list. I believe there are companies which offer paid support for LibreOffice, presumably some with phone numbers, but I don't know specific details. Hopefully someone else on this list might be able to reply pointing you in the right direction.

I hope that helps (at least on the status bar...)

Mark.

#3

Hi :) 
Could be 1 of 2 different things (afaik = as far as i know)

1.  You may have gone into "print preview" in which case you might notice a button on the top icon-bar (tool-bar) that has a tiny picture of a printer on it.  There are 2 very similar buttons very close to each other.  If one looks like it is stuck pressed in then click on it again to unclick it.  If both buttons look the same (apart from one having a magnifying glass) then neither is pressed in.

2.  You might have zoomed out that far.  There are several ways to deal with that;

a)  Go up to the "View" menu and change the factor to something more reasonable.  Try a  few different ones

b)  On the grey(ish) status-bar at the bottom of the window that contains the document on the far right is a little slider with a blob in the middle(ish) (or rather probably far off to one side right now but it should be in the middle normally).  Grab the blob with your mouse by pressing and holding the left mouse button in.  Drag the blob left and right until you have zoomed just about right.  Then let go of the mouse's left button

c)  Press and hold the Ctrl key and roll the mouse wheel backwards and forwards.  Stop rolling when the document is readable and then release the Ctrl key.  It's ok if you release things the other way around but just means the document scrolls up&down a bit.

Errr, that's all i could think of!  Someone else might write in with other ideas or explain the same ones in different ways!  This type of support is more of a team game rather than just getting 1 persons opinion which might/might-not be right.  It does take a bit of getting used to.

Good luck and regards from
 Tom :slight_smile: