LibreWriter Malfunction?

English
#1

Greetings,

While using LibreOffice Writer, over the past 48 hours, when working on a Document, it starts up, as normal, with the bottom row of Paragraph style, Font Name, Font Size, Bold, Italics, Underline, Font Color etc, all showing
When I attempt to Highlight part of the Document, the Desired Bottom Row (Formatting Tool Bar),disappears, & is by replaced “Forward One”, “To background”, “Border Color”,“Filter”, “Flip Vertically” etc.
And when I try to “Highlight” an area of My Document, a “Cross with Arrows at it’s tips” appears!

Operating Libre Writer in Safe Mode, did enable me to Highlight part of what I wanted, but, that took several attempts for by clicking the “Bold Button”, caused the Document to jump back to it’s beginning.

My PC application is Windows 10

How can I restore Libre Document back to the Configuration that I’ve successfully used countless times, up to Today?

#2

The toolbar is somehow context-sensitive and adapts itself to the selected object. Are you sure you selected text and not some other object like a table, an image, … ?

Please attach a sample file and mention your LO version (exact number, not “latest” as it is dependent on the platform) and save format (though, will be apparent with the sample file).

#3

You can restore the User Profile to its original version after install same as safe mode) by resetting your profile.
Returning to a “working config” is only possible, if you have a backup of your files. Sadly Microsoft decided to hide this kind of data in a hidden folder, wich can be reached below %APPDATA%
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Berfore you attempt to reset your current profile, save/backup it, or use rename instead of remove.

#4

It really sounds as if the text you are trying to highlight is, in fact, an image of text. When you click on it do you see 8 handles around the edge of a block of “text”? The four way arrow appears when you try to move an image.

If you install Microsoft Power Toys then you can OCR the image by pressing Win+Shift+T by leveraging Windows in-built OCR capabilities

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