Writer won't enter master mode

[ErnieB]

My book has 30 chapters in a Master Document. Recently reloaded latest LO to a new SSD. Now I can’t enter Master Mode in Navigator only Content Navigation View. How can I fix this?
This document has worked correctly for over 2 years. It appears that 7.1.0.3 is the problem. LO obviously knows it is a master doc but Navigator doesn’t. This is a definite killer BUG since I can’t add chapters to my new book.

Version: 7.1.0.3 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: f6099ecf3d29644b5008cc8f48f42f4a40986e4c
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19042; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL

[keme]

Someone please tell me when this BUG is fixed.

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[ErnieB]

Bugzilla bug 140397 submitted. Issue identified by developers and fix in the works. DON’T USE 7.1.0.3 IF YOU USE MASTER DOCUMENTS. It is defective. Use 7.0.4.2 until a new version of 7.1 is released.

[ErnieB]

Deleted 7.1.0.3 and reloaded 7.0.4.2. Problem fixed.
7.0.4 Navigator has 2 buttons. The top one is for Master and the bottom one is for Content. In 7.1 there is 1 button with up-down arrows positioned in the Content location. The Master button was deleted. The probable intent was to go back to a single toggle button as in earlier versions but the code driving the buttons was not updated properly so it selects Content/Content/Content/Content/…
Someone please tell me when this BUG is fixed. Until then use 7.0.4 if you have a master document.

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