I entered 300% on scaling screen just to see how it worked. It made drop down menus HUGE. So huge that they are almost un-useable. The input position for scaling is now not accessible since text pushes the input box out of screen and cannot be moved into screen. how can I get everything back to normal? Entire LibreOffice program virtually worthless now - entire program is messed up and I can’t seem to recover anything back to normal. HELP please. I uninstalled the program and reinstalled, still large. Uninstalled and did a regedit to remove all Libre files, then reinstalled - still a mess. Program is now essentially junk. Can this be fixed?
Delete your user profile. This is not deleted when you uninstall.
On Windows it is located at username/AppData/Roaming/LibreOffice/(version no)/user.
Wow, that worked and was so easy. Thanks so much.
Deleting the user profile is the easiest way, unless you have the profile backed up - which I highly recommend. But if you have effort invested in settings things up, and don’t have a profile backup copy, you can do this surgically.
With LO closed, go to the User folder and find the file registrymodifications.xcu. Make a back up copy of the file. Now open it in a text editor, not a word processor. There you’ll find the line:
<item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Common/View"><prop oor:name="FontScaling" oor:op="fuse"><value>106</value></prop></item>
In this case, 106 stands for a 106% scale. Set it back to 100 and save the file.
Thanks to all of you who offered help. The second answer {by @anon87010807 }, the link to an answer for someone else who did this before me, was the easiest way, by far. Simply go to tools - Options - View and then (even though the screen is messed up with huge text that obscures what you are doing) type alt A then type 100 then hit enter. Everything back to normal. Thank god. Now I cans see what is going on again. Thanks again to all of you.
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