Something ‘magically’ happened to LibreOffice Writer and I haven’t been able to fix it.
Any new document starts with the entire writing area way to the right, beyond where the right margin should be, with the left part, where the text entry area should be, is just grey. If I choose View, Print Layout, then the whole screen becomes the text entry area, except for the menu bar, the tool bar and the grid lines top and left.
That’s not all. Page Preview is greyed out, page breaks are not in evidence and Ctl-Enter does not produce a hard page break.
I have no idea what I moused over to accomplish this. I use a laptop with a mouse pad, and am vexed by it, since one of my thumbs often touches the mouse pad accidentally and either moves the cursor or selects something I don’t want.
If I open a document that was created before all this happened, it behaves normally. By that I mean that the text entry area is centered, with grey all around it, and everything else is where I want it. Page Preview also works, as does the page break.
LibreOffice 4.0.2.2, Linux Mint on Ubuntu.