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

[KirkWard]

Have tried finding user profile, in C:\Program Files (or whatever it was), but to no avail. Need better instructions than I found with Google, or more alternatives inside LibreOffice.

As an aside, I was wanting to add a footer to a page, and then page numbers. I finally had been able to add the footer from the Page Formatting window, but inserting the page number could only be done through the drop down in the tab at the top right hand corner of the footer. It was an option not in the >Insert menu. Was wondering if the absence of the option to insert Headers and Footers being missing from the drop down was related.

[KirkWard]

Ah, see your instructions about resetting the user profile from the popup window as I enter safe mode. I have done that each time previously. Just did it again to ensure I had done it, but still none of the options I desire. Possible to use the OpenOffice TOC after creating a document in LibreOffice? OpenOffice is pretty clumsy after years of neglect, but is it possible the feature is portable?

[JohnSUN]

Of course, you can insert, delete and reinsert TOC at any time when working with a document. Sorry, I meant “usually you can,” but not today.

I am afraid that even the installation of AOO will not be very successful. Perhaps everything will turn out, I hope so.

While transferring your screenshots to the question, I noticed that all the menus lacked just the last few items. Not from the middle, not from the beginning, namely the “tail” of long menus.

Let’s see if the Windows settings prevent you from working. I have already seen reports that certain desktop themes caused problems with the display of some controls (including the menu)

[KirkWard]

What windows settings do you propose I edit? Another thought. Could my Kaspersky virus protection be preventing a LibreOffice module or routine from running?

[JohnSUN]

May be. Wait, my friend, right now I read “Bug 129104 - When saving user-defined menus, standard menu entries are (partially) lost.”. WIth NEW EMPTY document do you see same trucated menu?

[JohnSUN]

Sorry, that was a stupid question - in your second screenshot there is an empty document and a cropped Tools menu. And what is the system font size you have installed? Standard? Or increased? If increased, then by what percentage?

[KirkWard]

I have not changed the system font size, and didn’t even know I could (I am not a super-user). It should therefore be set at the factory defaults. For the Heading 1 style, I have it set to Arial, Bold, 115%, Centered and Underlined. As regards your previous question, I get the same truncated menus in new, empty, documents also. Sigh.

[JohnSUN]

By the way, user profile on the path C:\Users\<yourname>\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user, not in C:\Program Files. But WIKI say “select Continue in safe mode → Test and see if the problem is gone → If the problem persists, you can exit the safe mode because the user profile was not the cause of the problem.” So, problem in other place.

OK, Let’s try to download and install AOO (you don’t need to remove LiO, they do not interfere with each other). And let’s see how the menu is displayed there. In the end, you will at least get the opportunity to create a TOC for your document.

[KirkWard]

Just went to C:\Users\KLN\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user and do not see a user profile folder, unless it is the full “user” folder. Is that whole folder to be deleted?

Will open a copy of my document in AOO and play with it in there.

[JohnSUN]

Yes, the “\user” folder is the profile folder. But it seems to make no sense to delete it - rebooting in safe mode did not show the full menus. So the reason for the failure is not there.

AOO shows the menu completely? For example, the Insert menu there is also long. If here the bottom items are not present, then this is still the problem of this particular Windows, something with its settings.

[KirkWard]

Making slight progress. The Indexes and Tables link needed to build the TOC was in the Insert menu of AOO as it should be. My dropdown was long like the image you have. Some wording slightly different, same items.

I was able to follow the instructions for a Table of Contents in AOO and generated one in the spot where I wished it to be. However, somehow I generated duplicate entries for each heading, and the move from LO to OO disrupted my line spacing a bit in the document, which I can manually fix, but which also highlights the dangers of moving from one app to the other.

[JohnSUN]

Well, not a single text editor is immune to loss of formatting (even a proprietary one) - text layout can sometimes change even after setting another printer as default.

I found a temporary solution to your problem, a workaround.

You can call the Tools-Options menu with the Alt + F12 hotkey. To the Tools-Customize menu you can enter from the context menu of the toolbar - right-click on any icon and select Customize Toolbar (I hope this item is there). Then you can move the TOC menu item higher to where it will be visible. Or assign him a hotkey. Or put on the toolbar.

[KirkWard]

Well, after many hours of JohnSUN’s time, I finally found a solution. Not one I like, but one which provided a workaround. I used a copy of Open Office 4.1.6 which I have on my machine. The table of contents updated properly when I opened it in LibreOffice. Not an elegant solution, but a workaround that I can accept for now.

Now, to figure out how to remove the grey background color. And, why in the Sam Hill is that even inserted? Why not leave it transparent, unless the user selects a background. Really a useless feature, for those who are in the document writing occupation.

[Jedimaster]

The grey background indicates a field and will not show when you print on your printer.

[EarnestAl]

Click View > Field shadings to toggle visibility of the field shading