Page Formatting [all pages off the screen to the right]

[TBotNik]

All,

Not sure if this is an LO problem or a Win 11 problem, but I publish a monthly Newsletter. I finished this last Sun 2 Mar 2025 Then went to send it out & noticed the entire newsletter formatting was screwed, so started checking the formatting & found that somehow all formatting is now like LO is in a Duplex page mode with nothing on the left, all pages off the screen to the right & even when I tried creating a new blank file, the blank file is in this mode.
I looked but cannot find a single thing showing this mode now the reason for this issue, so if you have faced this before & know the solution I need it quick as I am now behind on the send out schedule!

Cheers!

TBNK

[ajlittoz]

Writer offers several display modes. Your formatting is not “screwed”. It only shows in one of the modes.

You can select your preferred mode by clicking on one of the icons at left of zoom slider in the bottom status bar:

From left to right, single page, multiple page, book. In this example, book view is selected.

If the status bar is not visible, enable it with View>Status Bar.

[TBotNik]

Sorry, but there is nothing in the “Viex>>Status bar” & there is no longer a zoom option available which use to be under “View>Zoom” because there is now so much trash under “View” that it exceeds the bottom of the page & is not scrollable, so even if it is there it is not accesable.

There used to be “ctrl+” commands to bypass all click-down options, so what is that cmd string to bypass the WISSYWHIG BS?

Cheers!
TBNK

[ajlittoz]

Which is your LO version?

The Status Bar item is near the top of the View menu. So, there is no need for scrolling.

Alternatively, click on the zoom ratio in the status bar and untick Book mode in the dialog which pops up.

[EarnestAl]

Note that view on screen of Single page View, Multiple page View, or Book view does not affect export of the document to pdf, nor printing. It is merely a convenient way of viewing the document depending on its intended output.

Here is a graphical view of what you should do to return to single page view

[TBotNik]

Vrsion7.4.4.2 (x64)on my Win 11 laptop, but older & much more capable older LO versions on all my 5+ Linux boxes, but all downnow due to negotiation to get power at their location.

[TBotNik]

So far all you describe sofar is non existant on my LO, so we are are not at all talking about the same things in anyway shape or form!

[TBotNik]

I’d send you screenshots, if this interface on this site would take them but thissite only allows URLs not screenshots!