I’m typing in Writer v.7.0.1.2 (x64). Suddenly I cannot enter page breaks correctly. When I use Ctrl>Enter, a page break is inserted close to the beginning of the document. When I use the menus (Insert>PageBreak) nothing happens. When I display formatting marks, I position the cursor to the left of the first character after a page break and press Esc and nothing happens. I’ve tried restarting the program and restarting my laptop with no success. I’ve also re-installed the program; no success.
So far I’ve restrained myself from using my laptop as a Frisbee, but I would like to have a solution to this problem.
Any help will be appreciated.
Hello,
Do not see those problems (not clear on the Esc one) in that LO version on Ubuntu 20.04.1 Mate. Only suggestion I have is to try resetting user profile. See → LibreOffice user profile
Please note, re-installing the program does not affect the user profile.
Tried resetting the user profile. No success.
Sorry but that was all I could offer.
I “solved” it. I had cut and pasted some text from an email without realizing that it was not a simple text transfer. The text seems to have been in some sort of container like a text box. When I tried to add a page break within it, it entered the break before the container. I solved it by copying the text again, pasting it with “Paste Special” command. It all works well now.
Thanks for the help.