Where is Insert>Table of Context and Index>Table of Contents, Index or Bibliography

[KirkWard]

I have looked into the instructions for generating a table of contents and found the instructions to Insert>Table of Context and Index>Table of Contents, Index or Bibliography, but I cannot find that link. It does not appear in my “Insert” drop down.

I am using LibreOffice Version: 6.4.3.2 (x64)
Build ID: 747b5d0ebf89f41c860ec2a39efd7cb15b54f2d8
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 18362; UI render: default; VCL: win;
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

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[JohnSUN]

Sorry and don’t be offended - I have to ask this: are we talking about a text document Writer?

[KirkWard]

Sorry, I don’t understand.

I am creating a document using Writer, saved using the the .odt format in LibreOffice under the format I mentioned above. That is all I can think of to answer.

[JohnSUN]

Thank you, and again, I’m sorry that I doubted you! (There are times when users ask “why there is no “table of contents” menu when I use spreadsheets in Calc”. I’m glad you’re not one of them)

[Silex]

It’s 2025 now and I have exactly the same problem.

• No menu-item for inserting Table of Contents (TOC) and
• no menu-item for customizing the menu-items to add this menu-item for inserting a TOC.
  I uninstalled Libreoffice and installed it again with flathub.org.
  I know it is not an explanation or a real solution. But it works for me now.

[ajlittoz]

@silex Had you a tabbed (ribbon) GUI and the re-installation process revert to “Standard UI”?
From your links, I guess you’re under Ubuntu but it would be more helpful to quote OS name and LO version from the start.

[Silex]

@ajlittoz Thank you for your response!
Actually i discovered that I have two libreoffice versions now. I am confused, because I deleted the incomplete one before.

Sorry about the incomplete information.

• OS is Zorin OS 17.3 Pro
• libreoffice flathub is 25.2.2.2 (Dutch ui)
• libreoffice previous version I don´t know, because there is no help/info menu-item.
• Libreoffice second version now: I don´t know, because there is no help/info menu-item

It looks like the second version is the same as the previous one.
When I start libreoffice writer from the command line I get the message: /home/peter/writer does not exist.

All the versions have a ribbon. But I will attach some images, because I am not sure what you mean. The ribbons differ.

I guess I messed up my installation of Libreoffice. Perhaps I didn´t clean the previous installation enough. But for now, I can use the Dutch/flathub version with all the menu-items.

[ajlittoz]

The top Writer window uses the “standard UI” where all “usual” menus are available. The bottom Writer window shows the dreaded tab UI, aka. Word-like ribbon interface. The menu bar is replaced by a set of tabs to offer various manual direct-format shortcuts à la M$O Word. This was offered in the hope of not disturbing M$ switchers. Unfortunately, this misses the goal by hiding many features (personal opinion, YMMV).

You seem to be in the Tabbed Compact variant. To revert to standard UI, click on the circled “hamburger” icon at right, above “Home”. The pop-up dialog will allow you to choose another UI.

[Silex]

Thank you!
I changed the UI to standard and all the missing menu-items appear.

[JohnSUN]

First of all, go to Tools - Customize - Menus tab and make sure that this submenu is in the Target list.

If this is not the case, try the Reset button or create the desired submenu yourself.

If this does not help, try Help - Restart in Safe Mode…

If this does not work, try uninstalling LibreOffice and reinstalling it (I hope you took the distribution kit from the official site?)

And of course it will be interesting to know which of this methods helped solve the problem.

[KirkWard]

Okay, sad face here. I have tried all suggestions mentioned, including uninstalling and reinstalling, and my status remains the same. I will note the version from the help screen of the version just installed from the link provided in the first answer. Then I will insert three images. One of what I found on the interweb which is what I was looking for, and which I could not find. Then a screenshot of what I found when looking for the aforementioned image, followed by what I get whjen I try to duplicate the image shown in the answer which was provided.

Longwinded? Sorry. Here they are.

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What I was looking for and would like to see: ## (screenshot from YuoTube - lesson about Writer)

What I have: ## (first screenshot in the question)

And what I have trying to follow the aforementioned instructions: ## (second screenshot in the question)

[JohnSUN]

Okay, the crying face is here. What about Help-Safe mode? WIKI say "Resolving corruption:
Many problems in LibreOffice can be caused by corruption in the user profile. When noticing strange behavior in LibreOffice the first thing to do is to reset the user profile. "

[KirkWard]

Tried safe mode also (as suggested in the proposed answer). Got same result.

So, could not find menu link, safe mode did not help, and uninstall/reinstall did not work. Seems weird.

[JohnSUN]

No, I meant “reset user profile from safe mode” (sorry if i was not clear enough)

I hope this is the last place where there might be a bug related to LibreOffice. Otherwise, we will need to look for an error in your Windows10 - and this is an ungrateful task.

[KirkWard]

As you can see from above image. if I go To >Tools, there is no Option option, so I cannot use that method (as found in help) to reset my user profile. Is there another method?

[JohnSUN]

Please forgive me, I transferred your images to the question text and slightly reduced their size

[JohnSUN]

Not Tools - go to Help. Safe mode there

[KirkWard]

P.S. Looking for a bug in Windows is not an ungrateful task to someone who needs help, unless they are arrogant idiots. Which I hope I am not, because I am truly gratefull for your help. Even now, when we are not getting the results I desire. I am still grateful for your help.

[KirkWard]

Am in safe mode. Went to >Tools and cannot find Options, or Reset User Profile

[JohnSUN]

Immediately after starting the Safe Mode, a form should appear (sorry, because of my local settings this is not in English, but I emphasized the item that you need)