Contents

# View

This menu contains commands to control the on-screen display of the document, change the user interface and access the sidebar panels.

## Normal Layout

Displays how the document will look when you print it.

## Web Layout

Displays the document as it would be viewed in a Web browser. This is useful when you create HTML documents.

## Page Layout Menu

Opens a submenu to select the page layout displayed in the workspace.

## User Interface

Opens the Select Your Preferred User Interface dialog to let you choose the user interface layout for LibreOffice.

## HTML Source

Displays the source text of the current HTML document. This view is available when creating a new HTML document or opening an existing one.

## Toolbars

Opens a submenu to show and hide toolbars. A toolbar contains icons and options that let you quickly access LibreOffice commands.

## Status Bar

Shows or hides the Status bar at the bottom edge of the window.

## Rulers

Contains a submenu for showing or hiding the horizontal and vertical rulers.

## Scroll Bars

Show or hide the horizontal and vertical scroll bars that are used to change the viewable area of a document that doesn't fit within the window.

## Grid and Help Lines

Toggle the visibility of grid points and guide lines to help object moving and precise position in the current page.

## Formatting Marks

Shows hidden formatting symbols in your text, such as paragraph marks, line breaks, tab stops, and spaces.

## Text Boundaries

Shows or hides the boundaries of the printable area of a page.

Shows or hides the borders of table cells that have no set borders.

## Images and Charts

Show or hide graphical objects like images and charts within a document.

## Show Whitespace

Displays the document with the top and bottom margins, header and footer and a gap between pages. Uncheck to collapse all the elements cited and display the document in a contiguous page stream. Hiding whitespace is only possible in Single-page view.

## Show Track Changes

Shows or hides recorded changes.

## Show Comment Comments

Show or hide a document's comments and replies to them.

## Resolved Comments

Show or hide resolved comments.

## Field Shadings

Shows or hides shadings around fields in your document like non-breaking spaces, soft hyphens, indexes, and footnotes.

## Field Names

Switches between showing fields as field names or field values. When enabled the field names are displayed, and when disabled the field values displayed. Some field contents cannot be displayed.

## Field Hidden Paragraphs

Shows or hides hidden paragraphs. This option only affects the screen display of hidden paragraphs, and not the printing of hidden paragraphs.

## Sidebar

The Sidebar is a vertical graphical user interface that primarily provides contextual properties, style management, document navigation, media gallery and more features.

## Styles

Use the Styles deck of the Sidebar to apply, create, edit, and remove formatting styles. Double-click an entry to apply the style.

## Gallery

Opens the Gallery deck of the Sidebar, where you can select images and audio clips to insert into your document.

## Navigator

Shows or hides the Navigator window. Use the Navigator to quickly jump between different parts of the document, or switch between open files.

## Data Sources

Lists the databases that are registered in LibreOffice and lets you manage the contents of the databases.

## Full Screen

Shows or hides the menus and toolbars in Writer or Calc. To exit the full screen mode, click the Full Screen button or press the Esc key.

## Zoom

Opens the Zoom & View Layout dialog to let you set the zoom factor to display the current document.

## Normal View

Displays the normal layout view of the sheet.

## Page Break

Display the page breaks and print ranges in the sheet.

## User Interface

Opens the Select Your Preferred User Interface dialog to let you choose the user interface layout for LibreOffice.

## Toolbars

Opens a submenu to show and hide toolbars. A toolbar contains icons and options that let you quickly access LibreOffice commands.

## Formula Bar

Shows or hides the Formula Bar, which is used for entering and editing formulas. The Formula Bar is the most important tool when working with spreadsheets.

## Status Bar

Shows or hides the Status bar at the bottom edge of the window.

## View Headers

Shows column headers and row headers.

## View Grid Lines

Toggle the visibility of grid lines for the current sheet.

## Grid and Help Lines

Toggle the visibility of grid points and guide lines to help object moving and precise position in the current page.

## Value Highlighting

Displays cell contents in different colors, depending on type.

## Hidden Row/Column Indicator

Toggles the display of tic marks where columns or rows are hidden.

## Show Formulas

Display the cell formula expression instead of the calculated result.

## Show Comment Comments

Show or hide a document's comments and replies to them.

## Split Window

Divides the current window at the top left corner of the active cell.

## Freeze Rows and Columns

Divides the sheet at the top left corner of the active cell and the area to the top left is no longer scrollable.

## Freeze Cells

Freezes the first column or the first row of the current spreadsheet.

## Sidebar

The Sidebar is a vertical graphical user interface that primarily provides contextual properties, style management, document navigation, media gallery and more features.

## Styles

Use the Styles deck of the Sidebar to apply, create, edit, and remove formatting styles. Double-click an entry to apply the style.

## Gallery

Opens the Gallery deck of the Sidebar, where you can select images and audio clips to insert into your document.

## Navigator

Shows or hides the Navigator window. Use the Navigator to quickly jump between different parts of the document, or switch between open files.

## Function List

Opens the Function List deck of the Sidebar, which displays all functions that can be inserted into your document.

## Data Sources

Lists the databases that are registered in LibreOffice and lets you manage the contents of the databases.

## Full Screen

Shows or hides the menus and toolbars in Writer or Calc. To exit the full screen mode, click the Full Screen button or press the Esc key.

## Zoom

Opens a submenu with several zoom factors and commands.

## Normal

Switches to normal view, where you can create and edit your slides.

## Outline

Switches to outline view, where you can add, edit and reorganize slide titles and headings.

## Notes

Switches to notes view, where you can add notes to your slides. Notes are hidden from the audience when you give your presentation.

## Handout

Switches to the handout page view, where you can scale several slides to fit on one printed page.

## Slide Sorter

Displays miniature versions of the slides so they can easily be rearranged.

## Master Slide

Switches to master slide view, where you can add elements that you want to appear on all of the slides that use the same master slide.

## Master Notes

Displays the master notes, where you can set the default formatting for notes.

## Toolbars

Opens a submenu to show and hide toolbars. A toolbar contains icons and options that let you quickly access LibreOffice commands.

## Status Bar

Shows or hides the Status bar at the bottom edge of the window.

## Rulers

Displays or hides rulers at the top and left or right edges of the workspace.

## Page Pane Slide Pane

Show or hide the Page Pane Slide Pane.

## Grid and Help Lines

Toggle the visibility of grid points and guide lines to help object moving and precise position in the current page.

## Snap Guides

Specifies the display options for snap guides.

## Object Moving Helplines

Specifies whether to display guides when moving an object.

## Color/Grayscale

Shows slides in color, grayscale, or black and white.

## Comments

Show or hide a presentation's annotations.

## Master Background

Toggle the visibility of a master slide's background to be used as the background of the current slide.

## Master Objects

Toggle the visibility of a master slide's objects to appear on the current slide.

## Master Elements

Add header, footer, date, and slide number placeholders to the master slide.

## Sidebar

The Sidebar is a vertical graphical user interface that primarily provides contextual properties, style management, document navigation, media gallery and more features.

## Styles

Use the Styles deck of the Sidebar to apply, create, edit, and remove formatting styles. Double-click an entry to apply the style.

## Clip Art Gallery

Opens the Gallery deck of the Sidebar, where you can select images and audio clips to insert into your document.

## Navigator

Shows or hides the Navigator window. Use the Navigator to quickly jump between different parts of the document, or switch between open files.

## Zoom

Opens the Zoom & View Layout dialog to let you set the zoom factor to display the current document.

## Normal

Switch to normal view of the page.

## Master

Switch to the master view.

## User Interface

Opens dialog box for selecting layout of user interface.

## Toolbars

Opens a submenu to show and hide toolbars. A toolbar contains icons and options that let you quickly access LibreOffice commands.

## Status Bar

Shows or hides the Status bar at the bottom edge of the window.

## Page Pane Slide Pane

Show or hide the Page Pane Slide Pane.

## Rulers

Displays or hides rulers at the top and left or right edges of the workspace.

## Grid and Help Lines

Toggle the visibility of grid points and guide lines to help object moving and precise position in the current page.

## Snap Guides

Specifies the display options for snap guides.

## Comments

Show or hide annotations on the page.

## Color/Grayscale

Shows slides in color, grayscale, or black and white.

## Sidebar

The Sidebar is a vertical graphical user interface that primarily provides contextual properties, style management, document navigation, media gallery and more features.

## Styles

Use the Styles deck of the Sidebar to apply, create, edit, and remove formatting styles. Double-click an entry to apply the style.

## Gallery

Opens the Gallery deck of the Sidebar, where you can select images and audio clips to insert into your document.

## Navigator

Shows or hides the Navigator window. Use the Navigator to quickly jump between different parts of the document, or switch between open files.

## Color Bar

Show or hide the Color bar.

## Shift

Use to shift the position of the page in the window. When enabled, the appearance of the mouse pointer changes. Click the page and drag to desired position.

## Zoom

Opens the Zoom & View Layout dialog to let you set the zoom factor to display the current document.

Opens the Zoom & View Layout dialog to let you set the zoom factor to display the current document.

## Zoom In

Increases the display scale of the formula by 25%. The current zoom factor is displayed on the status bar. A selection of available zoom options is accessible through the context menu. The context menu in the work area also contains zoom commands.

## Zoom Out

Decreases the display scale of formulas by 25%. The current zoom factor is displayed on the status bar. A selection of available zoom options is accessible through the context menu. The context menu in the work area also contains zoom commands.

## Show All Optimal View

Displays the entire formula in the maximum size possible so that all elements are included. The formula is reduced or enlarged so that all formula elements can be displayed in the work area. The current zoom factor is displayed on the status bar. A selection of available zoom options is accessible through the context menu. The context menu in the work area also contains zoom commands. The zoom commands and icons are only available in Math documents, not for embedded Math objects.

Resizes the display to include all of the objects on the slide page.

## Update

This command updates the formula in the document window.

Changes in the Commands window are automatically updated if AutoUpdate Display is activated.

## AutoUpdate Display

Automatically updates a modified formula. If you do not select this option, the formula will only be updated after you choose View - Update or press F9.

## Elements

This is a list of operators, functions, symbols and format options that can be inserted into the formula.

## Status Bar

Shows or hides the Status bar at the bottom edge of the window.

## Full Screen

Shows or hides the menus and toolbars in Writer or Calc. To exit the full screen mode, click the Full Screen button or press the Esc key.

## Zoom