As of LibreOffice 5, the Text Formatting toolbar only shows up when you click on some text. Then if you click elsewhere it disappears. This causes frequent (continual!!) redrawing of the screen and resizing of the slide area as that toolbar appears and disappears. Infuriating!!
How do I make the toolbar stay put?
yes, I have this problem, too. It is very , very annoying! I tried to lock it but it still disappar. when I am not editing a text box. I hope the developers can stop doing this kind of useless but annoying âfeaturesâ. Seriously, please fix it!
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For now, I am uninstalling 5.0 and I will go back to 4.4âŚ
Iâm having the same issue and would also love to find a solution. As a feature, it would be useful if the editting area did not also resize/shift. Iâm sure there must a configuration option to do what I want, but Iâm still looking âŚ
Iâm having the same issue. I have a small screen and it becomes very difficult to manage even using the workaround given by rbenningâŚ
Please this is driving me crazy
Well, within 5 minutes of posting my previous comment, I devised what may be potential workaround. It works for me, and I think is okay as a short term strategy. But as I am fairly new to Libreoffice, Iâd certainly like to know how to do this in a more permanent, or more effective manner. To overcome the continuous document resizing as new toolbars appeared, I simply undocked the offending toolbar from the top (or side) of the document screen, and placed it as a floating tool bar over the document window. Now when I select an object, such as a picture, the âFrameâ toolbar appears as a floating toolbar, in the last position it was used, nicely placed out of the way of my document. But, the document no longer shifts and things appear to work as normal. I do have the luxury of a large monitor, so this would still be annoying for smaller screens. However, for now, I can live until I find a better solution.
EDIT: be sure to âsaveâ your document after each toolbar change, or the repositioning behaviour reverts to itâs old ways.
I found a way to work around this terrible terrible âfeatureâ, though it takes some patience:
Create your own toolbar! Yes, it takes quite a few minutes of your time, but in the long run I prefer it this way. Just go to âView/Toolbars/Customize/Newâ, then hit the âAddâ button, choose the category âFormatâ in the left list and then pick any element you need.
Another workaround based on PeterPiperâs answer. Create new toolbar as he explained, but donât try to add all of the buttons standard text formatting toolbar has. Even if you add only a single button, you can position it in the second row and add text formatting toolbar after it. Text formatting toolbar will still disappear, but now it wonât shift the whole screen because your toolbar is still there. This way your screen wonât break and you donât have to add all the necessary command to your toolbar. But you can still add those command that you use frequently.
I just a make a solution for this and feel worthy to share itâŚI feel the main problem is continuous changing of screen size due disappearing of Text Formatting Toolbar. May be there are few Toolbars which are permanent and few are non-permanent. So if you add one more permanent tab and the Text Formatting Tab then they will interchange when you start editing your text but screen size remain same which reduces the irritating situation.
You can follow the process given below (tested by me):
There is no need to add Text Formatting Toolbar now.
Now if you start editing textsâŚthat Line and Filling Toolbar will be replace by Text Formatting Toolbar automatically.
So there will not any fluctuation of screen sizeâŚwhich will reduce the irritating situation.
Hope it will work for everyoneâŚwaiting for your feedbacksâŚenjoy!!!
It worked for me! And itâs nice the change for the rigth toolbar at the right moment.
Easy solution and probably already explained above: Put the dynamic toolbar behind a (new or existing) permanent one.
Easy solution and probably already explained above: Put the dynamic toolbar behind a (new or existing) permanent one.