Anyone know if/when LibreOffice writer will activate the ‘Outline Mode’ options so we can finally with a mouse click collapse/expand blocks of text in outlines? Tools → Options → Writer → View → Outline Mode.
Any Writer extensions/plugins can do this? I didn’t see any after a quick search.
There is no “outline mode” à la M$ Word in Writer.
The Navigator side pane (F5) provides an equivalent navigation feature (I emphasize word “navigation” because there is no collapse/expand effect in the document content window).
The Navigator gives you a view about what your document is made of. One of the categories is Headings. Provided you followed the recommended style rules and gave your headings one of Heading n paragraph styles, the headings will be listed there.
To the left of the headings a small triangle or arrow (depending on the widget theme) allows you to expand/collapse the chapter, sub-chapter, sub-sub-…, etc. part of the outline. Double-click on one of the headings to scroll to it.
Moving whole parts of your document, keeping the sub-… relationship can be done with buttons in the navigator toolbar.
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I found a org.openoffice.Office.Writer > Content > Display > ShowOutlineContentVisibilityButton property in the Advanced settings. I toggled it to true and restarted, by I see no change, no new button, …
Perhaps a preliminary defined property before any decent implementation.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.1#Outline_folding_mode
Filed tdf#142615 for the element visibility without active experimental features
Hello,
When Outline Mode get turned on?
When you:
Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> [x] Enable experimental features (may be unstable)
then option Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice Writer -> View -> Option: [x] Show outline content visibility button will be available.
Hope that helps.
