Select a tab, and you will find the corresponding menu all the way to the right. Below that icon you will also see several different menus which change depending on which tab that you have chosen.įor example, if you choose the File tab, all the way to the right you should see a File menu drop-down. You should see a “hamburger” menu – that’s the icon with three or four horizontal lines which will let you change your view. Actually, the menu itself does not technically disappear it moves to the top right corner of the window. In the Windows version of LibreOffice, the top menu seems to disappear when the Tabbed interface is selected. In MacOS, the menus are always available at the top of the app, whether the Tabbed display (LibreOffice’s version of the Windows ribbon) is on or not. There is one thing you should be aware of before we dive into the instructions. Where they differ, I’ll try to fill in the blanks for you. Most of the instructions in this article are interchangeable between the Windows version and the MacOS version. I’ve used the Mac version of LibreOffice to prepare this article, but the same features are available in the Windows version. I’ll answer eight questions regarding working in LibreOffice Writer. In this article I am focusing on Writer, the LibreOffice answer to Word. LibreOffice includes a suite of apps that correspond to the basic apps in Microsoft Office – now called Microsoft 365.

How to set a default font in LibreOffice Writer.

How to add page numbers in LibreOffice Writer.

How to delete a blank page in LibreOffice.

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