I have the latest both Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS and Libre Office.
Probably accidentally, I lost the toolbar (File, View, Tools, etc.) How to restore it? Thank you.
If I interpret correctly “top tool bar”, you mean the menu bar. Without much information (you didn’t mention LO version; “latest” meant something different one month ago and will mean something different in one month; additionally, not everybody is under Ubuntu) not even a screenshot, it is difficult to guess.
I suppose you enabled some form of “tabbed” UI.
Near the top right corner of the window, you may have either a Menu drop-down menu or a button looking like 3 stacked segments.
Press the 3-line button and User Interface. If there is no such button, use Manu>User Interface. Select Standard Toolbar.
If this does not work, edit your question to attach a screenshot.
Thank you for the answer. Sorry for my unclear question. I am just a user, not a technician. I cannot find what LO version I have. How to do it? The system just informed that “all software is up to date”. I can make a screen shot. How to attach it? No such button is here.
If you have no menu bar, you can’t effectively access Help>About LibreOffice. Perhaps you could get some information through Ubuntu installer.
When you type a question/comment, the toolbar has an icon with an up-pointing arrow (Upload pops up when you hover over it). Use it to upload your screenshot.
Thank you for your time.
Here’s a picture for grouped bar
Or for Tabbed
Thank you for your reply.
I guess it is not a solution. I had lost the Menu, so I could not “click Menu”.
The solution, which worked for me, was in resetting the Upper Panel of my Desktop. Of three Indicators, the Panel should have only the Indicator Applet Complete.
The idea is not mine. I found it on the site.
They proposed to remove some stuff from the Panel. That did not help, so I just reset it.
I am pleased that you have resolved the issue
I can’t quite follow your answer but I assume you clicked Tools > Customise then selected the Toolbars tab and pressed the Defaults button
Thanks.
But, again, “Tools” was lost together with all LO Menu. What was left is Ubuntu Main Menu, which had no “Tools”. When the Upper Panel is configured wrongly, a good LO Menu with Tools is MIA.
So, we have to right-click the end of the Upper Panel, enter , then , and to (default) Main Ubuntu Menu & Firefox add only “the Indicator Applet Complete”. That’s it.
Kindly note, the above is written by a user, not a developer. I can develop only problems and diligently seek their solutions.
Sorry, right-clicked on the toolbar and selected Customise.
Earnest Al, Tell me one thing.
In LO Writer, there is some window, OK. There, a lot of junk dwells. How to remove all that stuff and leave only what is actually used? I noticed that the most used (e.g., Liberation Serif & Liberation Sans) is on top, but not always.
I think you’re talking about the font menu in the main toolbar. There is a kind of cache at head of it showing the last 4 font faces you selected. If you didn’t select anything in your session, you get the alphabetical list of faces. During your session, the cache is progressively populated up to a maximum of 4 entries.
How to remove all that stuff and leave only what is actually used?
There are two ways:
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Tools>Customize>MenusandToolbars - Work with styles (1): you can then remove most or the whole toolbar and work with the side style pane to set the style of what you are typing by double-clicking on the style name
(1) Writer is style-oriented: styles is a kind of mark up in your text. You tell Writer your paragraph is a heading, a comment, a citation, a definition or simply plain text; such word should be emphasised or is a foreign word, trade mark, …
To do that you assign a paragraph style to a paragraph or a character style to a word or group of words, providing a different mark than the one in effect for the paragraph.
Styles are a collection of typographical attributes and positioning parameters.
Refrain from naming your styles like “Bold 18pt” because this does not translate your intent as an author and would become invalid should you change for 24pt. Instead name it “Heavy emphasis”.
With proper style design, you will no longer need to directly set font face, weight, colour, … In addition, tuning the layout in the final phases of document production is really easy because you separated contents from formatting.
I recommend you read the Writer Guide for an introduction to styles.
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Thank you very much. That makes sense to me.
“esc” fixed it for me.