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Categories
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These settings are necessary for LibreOffice to be usable for everyone and, as such, comply with our design principles.
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| Advanced
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These settings aren't necessary for the usability of LibreOffice and don't comply with our design principles.
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| Contextual
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These settings are relevant only in special situations and should be presented elsewhere in the UI.
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| Unnecessary
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These settings can be gotten rid of as they have been obviated by a change in LibreOffice's behavior/functionality.
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| New
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These settings are not currently found in the Writer section of the Options dialog but are in fact Writer-specific options.
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| Ask
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We need more information on these settings to be able to reach a decision.
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These settings are yet to be sorted.
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Options
LibreOffice Writer
General
Update
| Update links when loading
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Available options:
- Always: Always updates links while loading a document.
- On Request: Updates links only on request while loading a document.
- Never: Links are never updated while loading a document.
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| Automatically
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Available checkboxes:
- Fields: The contents of all fields are updated automatically whenever the screen contents are displayed as new. Even with this box unchecked, some fields are updated each time a special condition takes place. The following table lists the fields that are updated without regard to this checkbox.
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Automatically updated fields
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| Printing the document (also exporting as PDF)
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Author, Sender, Chapter, Date, Time, References, Last printed
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| Reloading the document
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Author, Sender, Chapter, Date, Time
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| Saving the document
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File name, Statistics, Document number, Editing time, Modified
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| Editing the text line where the field is in
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Author, Sender, Chapter, Date, Time
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| Manually changing a variable
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Conditional text, Hidden text, Hidden paragraph, Variables, DDE field
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| Switching off "fixed content"
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Author, Sender, all document information fields
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| Changing the page count
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Page
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- Charts: Specifies whether to automatically update charts. Whenever a Writer table cell value changes and the cursor leaves that cell, the chart that displays the cell value is updated automatically.
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Settings
| Measurement unit
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Generic
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| Specifies the unit of measurement for text documents.
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Should be global
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| Tab stops
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Contextual
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| Specifies the spacing between the individual tab stops. The horizontal ruler displays the selected spacing.
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Should be solved by allowing the user to edit the default Writer template
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| Enable char unit
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Contextual
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| When this setting is enabled, the measurement units of indents and spacing on Format - Paragraph - Indents & Spacing tab will be character (ch) and line.
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Have unit selectors in dialogs
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| Use square page mode for text grid
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| When this setting is enabled, the text grid will look like square page. Square page is a kind of page layout which is used to train students to write articles in China and Japan.
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View
Guides
Specifies settings that refer to the representation of boundaries.
| Helplines While Moving
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Contextual
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| Displays snap lines around the frames when frames are moved. You can select the Helplines While Moving option to show the exact position of the object using lineal values.
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Should be in the View menu
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View
Specifies whether scrollbars and rulers are displayed.
| Horizontal scrollbar
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| Displays the horizontal scrollbar.
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| Vertical scrollbar
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Unnecessary
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| Displays the vertical scrollbar.
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| Horizontal ruler
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Unnecessary
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| Displays the horizontal ruler.
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| Vertical ruler
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Advanced
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| Displays the vertical ruler.
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| Ruler measurement unit
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Unnecessary
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| Select the desired measurement unit for rulers from the corresponding list.
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Should use the default measurement unit.
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| Right-aligned
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| These commands can only be accessed after you enable support for Asian languages in Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages.
Aligns the vertical ruler with the right border.
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| Smooth scroll
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Advanced
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| Activates the smooth page scrolling function. The scrolling speed depends of the area and of the color depth display.
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Should be on by default when good enough
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Display
Defines which document elements are displayed.
| Graphics and objects
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Contextual
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| Specifies whether to display graphics and objects on the screen. If these elements are hidden, you will see empty frames as placeholders.
You can also control the display of graphics through the Graphics On/Off icon. If a text document is open, this icon is displayed on the Tools bar.
If the Graphics and objects option is not selected, no graphics will be loaded from the Internet. Graphics within a table and without an indication of their size can cause display problems when using an older HTML standard on the browsed page.
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Move the option to "View". If the document takes too long to load because of images, don't load them and show an infobar offering to load them anyway.
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| Tables
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Contextual
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| Displays the tables contained in your document.
To display the table boundaries, right-click any table and choose Table Boundaries, or choose Table - Table Boundaries in a Writer document.
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Same as "Graphics and Objects".
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| Drawings and controls
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Contextual
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| Displays the drawings and controls contained in your document.
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Same as "Graphics and Objects".
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| Field codes
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Contextual
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| Displays the field names in the document instead of the contents of the fields. You can also choose View - Fields in a text document.
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Same as "Graphics and Objects".
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| Comments
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Contextual
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| Displays comments. Click a comment to edit the text. Use the context menu in Navigator to locate or delete a comment. Use the comments's context menu to delete this comment or all comments or all comments of this author.
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Same as "Graphics and Objects".
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Formatting Aids
Display of
Defines which non-printing characters are visible on screen. Activate the Non-printing Characters icon on the Standard bar. All characters that you have selected on the Formatting Aids tab page will be displayed.
| Paragraph end
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Advanced
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| Specifies whether paragraph delimiters are displayed. The paragraph delimiters also contain paragraph format information.
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| Custom hyphens
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Advanced
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| Specifies whether user-defined delimiters are displayed. These are hidden delimiters that you enter within a word by pressing Ctrl+Hyphen(-). Words with user-defined delimiters are only separated at the end of a line at the point where a user-defined delimiter has been inserted, irrespective of whether the automatic hyphenation is activated or deactivated.
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| Spaces
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| Specifies whether to represent every space in the text with a dot.
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| Non-breaking spaces
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| Specifies that non-breaking spaces are shown as gray boxes. Non-breaking spaces are not broken at the end of a line and are entered with the Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar shortcut keys.
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| Tabs
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| Specifies that tab stops are displayed as small arrows.
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| Breaks
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| Displays all line breaks inserted with the Shift+Enter shortcut. These breaks create a new line, but do not start a new paragraph.
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| Hidden text
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Advanced
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| Displays text that uses the character format "hidden", when View - Non-printing Characters is enabled.
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| Fields: Hidden text (not for HTML documents)
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Advanced
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| Displays text that is hidden by Conditional Text or Hidden Text fields.
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| Fields: Hidden paragraphs (not for HTML documents)
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Advanced
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| If you have inserted text using the Hidden Paragraph field, specifies whether to display the hidden paragraph. This option has the same function as the menu commands When in Writer: View - Hidden Paragraphs available in open text documents.
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Direct cursor
Defines all the properties of the direct cursor (not for HTML documents).
| Direct cursor
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Generic
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| Activates the direct cursor. You can also activate this function by clicking the When in Writer: Direct Cursor On/Off icon in a text document.
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| Insert
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Defines the insert options for the direct cursor. If you click at any position in your document, a new paragraph can be written or inserted exactly at this position. The properties of this paragraph depend on the selected option. You can select from the following options:
- Paragraph alignment: Sets the paragraph alignment when the direct cursor is used. Depending on where the mouse is clicked, the paragraph is formatted left aligned, centered or right aligned. The cursor before the mouse-click shows, by means of a triangle, which alignment is set.
- Left paragraph margin: When the direct cursor is used, the left paragraph indent is set at the horizontal position where you click the direct cursor. The paragraph is left aligned.
- Tabs: When the direct cursor is used, as many tabs as necessary are added in the new paragraph until the clicked position is reached.
- Tabs and Spaces: When the Direct Cursor is used, a corresponding number of tabs and spaces are inserted in the new paragraph as necessary until the clicked position is reached. All insert options refer only to the current paragraph generated with the Direct Cursor.
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| Cursor in protected areas
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You can select the following checkbox:
- Enable: Specifies that you can set the cursor in a protected area, but cannot make any changes.
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Grid
| Snap to grid
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Contextual
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| Specifies whether to move frames, drawing elements, and controls only between grid points. To change the status of the snap grip only for the current action, drag an object while holding down the Ctrl key.
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Move to "View -> Grid -> Snap to Grid".
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| Visible grid
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Contextual
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| Specifies whether to display the grid.
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Move to "View -> Grid -> Display Grid".
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Resolution
| Horizontal
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Generic
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| Defines the unit of measure for the spacing between grid points on the X-axis.
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| Vertical
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| Defines the grid points spacing in the desired unit of measurement on the Y-axis.
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Subdivision
| Horizontal
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Generic
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| Specify the number of intermediate spaces between grid points on the X-axis.
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| Vertical
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Generic
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| Specify the number of intermediate spaces between grid points on the Y-axis.
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| Synchronize axes
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| Specifies whether to change the current grid settings symmetrically. The resolution and subdivision for the X and Y axes remain the same.
When in Draw: There are additional commands on the context menu of a page:When in Impress: There are additional commands on the context menu of a page:
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Basic Fonts (Western)
| Default
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| Specifies the font to be used for the Default Paragraph Style. The Default Paragraph Style font is used for nearly all Paragraph Styles, unless the Paragraph Style explicitly defines another font.
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| Heading
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| Specifies the font to be used for headings.
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| List
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| Specifies the fonts for lists and numbering and all derived styles.
When you choose When in Writer: Format - Numbering/Bullets to format a paragraph with numbers or bullets in a text document, the program assigns these Paragraph Styles automatically.
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| Caption
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| Specifies the font used for the captions of images and tables.
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| Index
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Unnecessary
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| Specifies the font used for indexes, alphabetical indexes, and tables of contents.
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| Current document only
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| Specifies that the settings apply to the current document only.
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Standard
Resets the values visible in the dialog back to the default installation values. A confirmation does not appear before the defaults are reloaded. This button might actually be called Default.
Basic Fonts (CTL)
Specifies the settings for basic fonts for complex text layout languages if their support has been activated under Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages.
| Default
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| Specifies the font to be used for the Default Paragraph Style. The Default Paragraph Style font is used for nearly all Paragraph Styles, unless the Paragraph Style explicitly defines another font.
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| Heading
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| Specifies the font to be used for headings.
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| List
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Unnecessary
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| Specifies the fonts for lists and numbering and all derived styles.
When you choose When in Writer: Format - Numbering/Bullets to format a paragraph with numbers or bullets in a text document, the program assigns these Paragraph Styles automatically.
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| Caption
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Unnecessary
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| Specifies the font used for the captions of images and tables.
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| Index
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Unnecessary
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| Specifies the font used for indexes, alphabetical indexes, and tables of contents.
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| Current document only
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Unnecessary
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| Specifies that the settings apply to the current document only.
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Standard
| Default
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| Resets the values visible in the dialog back to the default installation values. A confirmation does not appear before the defaults are reloaded.
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Should be renamed "Reset to Default"
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Print
Specifies print settings within a text or HTML document.
Choose Tools - Options - LibreOffice Writer/ LibreOffice Writer/Web - Print
The print settings defined on this tab page apply to all subsequent print jobs, until you change the settings again. If you want to change the settings for the current print job only, use the File - Print dialog.
Contents
Specifies which document contents are to be printed.
| Pictures and objects
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| Specifies whether the graphics of your text document are printed.
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| Form controls
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| Specifies whether the form control fields of the text document are printed.
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| Page background
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Generic
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| Specifies whether to include colors and objects that are inserted to the background of the page (Format - Page - Background) in the printed document.
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| Print black
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Generic
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| Specifies whether to always print text in black.
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| Hidden text
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Generic
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| Enable this option to print text that is marked as hidden. The following hidden text is printed: text that is formatted as hidden by Format - Character - Font Effects - Hidden, and the text fields Hidden text and Hidden paragraphs.
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| Text placeholder
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| Enable this option to print text placeholders. Disable this option to leave the text placeholders blank in the printout.Text placeholders are fields.
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Pages
| Left pages (not for HTML documents)
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| Specifies whether to print all left (even numbered) pages of the document.
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| Right pages (not for HTML documents)
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| Specifies whether to print all right (odd numbered) pages of the document.
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| Brochure
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Generic
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| Select the Brochure option to print your document in brochure format. The brochure format is as follows in LibreOffice Writer:
If you print a document in portrait on a landscape page, two opposing sides in a brochure will be printed next to each other. If you have a printer with double-sided printing capability, you can create an entire brochure from your document without having to collate the pages later. If you have a printer that only has single-sided printing capability, you can achieve this effect by first printing the front pages with the "Front sides / right pages /odd pages" option marked, then re-inserting the entire paper stack in your printer and printing all the back pages with the "Back pages / left pages / even pages" option marked.
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Specifies whether comments in your document are printed. The following options are available (radio buttons):
- None
- Comments only
- End of document
- End of page
Other
| Print automatically inserted blank pages
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| If this option is enabled, automatically-inserted blank pages are being printed. This is best if you are printing double-sided. For example, in a book, a "chapter" paragraph style has been set to always start with an odd numbered page. If the previous chapter ends on an odd page, LibreOffice inserts an even numbered blank page. This option controls whether to print that even numbered page or not.
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| Paper tray from printer settings
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| For printers with multiple trays, the "Paper tray from printer settings" option specifies whether the paper tray used is specified by the system settings of the printer.
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| Fax
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| If you have installed fax software on your computer and wish to fax directly from the text document, select the desired fax machine.
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Table
Defines the attributes of tables in text documents.
Specifies the default settings for columns and rows and the table mode. Also specifies the standard values for moving and inserting columns and rows. For further information see When in Writer: Editing Tables Using the Keyboard in the LibreOffice Writer Help.
Choose Tools - Options - LibreOffice Writer/LibreOffice Writer/Web - Table
Default
Defines the defaults for all newly created text tables in text documents.
| Heading
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| Specifies that the first row of the table is formatted with the "Table heading" Paragraph Style.
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LibreOffice should remember the last choice made under Insert > Table; Table Properties should be added to the Properties sidebar
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| Repeat on each page
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Advanced
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| Specifies whether the table heading is carried over onto the new page after a page break.
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LibreOffice should remember the last choice made under Insert > Table; Table Properties should be added to the Properties sidebar
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| Do not split (not in HTML)
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| Specifies that tables are not split by any type of text flow break. You can also find this option in menu Table - Table Properties - Text Flow.
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LibreOffice should remember the last choice made under Insert > Table; Table Properties should be added to the Properties sidebar
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| Border
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Advanced
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| Specifies that table cells have a border by default.
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LibreOffice should remember the last choice made under Insert > Table; Table Properties should be added to the Properties sidebar
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Input in tables
| Number recognition
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| Specifies that numbers in a text table are recognized and formatted as numbers.
If Number recognition is not marked, numbers are saved in text format and are automatically left-aligned.
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Could be Advanced if this cell setting was present in the sidebar and the last choice made was remembered
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| Number format recognition
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Ask
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| If Number format recognition is not marked, only input in the format that has been set at the cell is accepted. Any other input resets the format to Text.
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| Alignment
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| Specifies that numbers are always bottom right aligned in the cell. If this field is not marked numbers are always top left aligned in the cell. Direct formatting is not influenced by the Alignment field. If you center align the cell contents directly, they remain centered irrespective of whether text or numbers are involved.
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Could be Advanced if this cell setting was present in the sidebar and the last choice made was remembered
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Keyboard handling
| Move cells
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Defines the default settings for moving rows and columns with the keyboard.
- Row: Specifies the value to be used for moving a row.
- Column: Specifies the value to be used for moving a column.
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| Insert
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Specifies the default settings for inserting rows and columns with the keyboard.
- Row: Specifies the default value for inserting rows.
- Column: Specifies the default value for inserting columns.
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| Behavior of rows/columns
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Determines the relative effect of rows and columns on adjacent rows or columns, as well as on the entire table.
- Fixed: Specifies that changes to a row or column only affect the corresponding adjacent area.
- Fixed, proportional: Specifies that changes to a row or column have an effect on the entire table.
- Variable: Specifies that changes to a row or column affect the table size.
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LibreOffice should remember the last choice made under Table Properties > Columns; Table Properties should be added to the Properties sidebar
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Changes
Defines the appearance of changes in the document.
To record or show changes in your text or spreadsheet document, choose Edit - Changes - Record or Edit - Changes - Show.
Open a text document, choose Tools - Options - LibreOffice Writer - Changes
Text display
Defines the settings for displaying recorded changes. Select the type of change and the corresponding display attribute and color. The preview field shows the effect of the selected display options.
| Insertions / Attributes
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| Specifies how changes in the document are displayed when text is inserted.
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| Deletions / Attributes
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| Specifies how changes in the document are displayed when text is deleted. If you record text deletions, the text is displayed with the selected attribute (for example, strikethrough) and is not deleted.
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| Changed attributes / Attributes
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| Defines how changes to text attributes are displayed in the document. These changes affect attributes such as bold, italic or underline.
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| Color
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Lines changed
To indicate which lines of the text have been changed, you can define a mark that appears in the left or right page margin.
| Mark
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| Defines if and where changed lines in the document are marked. You can set the markings so that they always appear on the left or right page margin, or on the outer or inner margin.
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| Color
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| Specifies the color for highlighting the changed lines in the text.
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| Preview Field
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| Displays a preview of the current selection.
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Compatibility
Specifies compatibility settings for text documents. These options help in fine-tuning LibreOffice when importing Microsoft Word documents.
Some of the settings defined here are only valid for the current document and must be defined separately for each document.
Compatibility options for <document>
| Use printer metrics for document formatting
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| Specifies that printer metrics are applied for printing and also for formatting the display on the screen. If this box is not checked, a printer independent layout will be used for screen display and printing.
Note.png If you set this option for the current document and then save the document, for example, in an older binary format, this option will not be saved. If you later open the file from the older format, this option will be set by default.
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| Add spacing between paragraphs and tables (in current document)
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| In LibreOffice Writer, paragraph spacing is defined differently than in MS Word documents. If you have defined spacing between two paragraphs or tables, spacing is also added in the corresponding MS Word documents.
Specifies whether to add MS Word-compatible spacing between paragraphs and tables in LibreOffice Writer text documents.
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| Add paragraph and table spacing at tops of pages (in current document)
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| Specifies whether paragraph spacing at the top of a page will also be effective at the beginning of a page or column if the paragraph is positioned on the first page of the document. The same applies for a page break.
Note.png If you import an MS Word document, the spaces are automatically added during the conversion.
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| Use OpenOffice.org 1.1 tab stop formatting
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| Specifies how to align text at tab stops beyond the right margin, how to handle decimal tab stops, and how to handle tab stops close to a line break. If this check box is not selected, tab stops are handled in the same way as in other Office applications.
In text documents created by your current version of Writer, the new tab stop handling is used by default. In text documents created by Writer versions prior to StarOffice 8 or OpenOffice.org 2.0, the old tab stop handling is applied.
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| Do not add leading (extra space) between lines of text
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| Specifies that additional leading (extra space) between lines of text is not added, even if the font in use contains the additional leading attribute.
In text documents created by your current version of Writer, the additional leading is used by default. In text documents created by Writer versions prior to StarOffice 8 or OpenOffice.org 2.0, the additional leading is not used.
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| Use OpenOffice.org 1.1 line spacing
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| If the option is off, a new process for formatting text lines with proportional line spacing will be applied. If the option is on, the previous method of formatting of text lines with proportional line spacing will be applied.
In text documents created by your current version of Writer and in Microsoft Word documents of recent versions, the new process is used. In text documents created by Writer versions prior to StarOffice 8 or OpenOffice.org 2.0, the previous process is used.
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| Add paragraph and table spacing at bottom of table cells
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| Specifies that the bottom spacing is added to a paragraph, even when it is the last paragraph in a table cell.
If the option is off, table cells will be formatted as in Writer versions prior to StarOffice 8 or OpenOffice.org 2.0. If the option is on, an alternative method of formatting table cells will be applied. The option is on by default for new documents created with LibreOffice and for documents imported from Microsoft Word format.
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| Use OpenOffice.org 1.1 object positioning
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| Specifies how to calculate the position of floating objects anchored to a character or paragraph with respect to the top and bottom paragraph spacing.
If the option is on, the floating objects are positioned as in Writer versions prior to StarOffice 8 or OpenOffice.org 2.0. If the option is off, the floating objects are positioned using an alternative method that is similar to the method used by Microsoft Word.
The option will be set to off for new documents. For Writer documents created by a version prior to OpenOffice.org 2.0 the option is on.
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| Use OpenOffice.org 1.1 text wrapping around objects
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| MS Word and Writer have different approaches on wrapping text around floating screen objects. Floating screen object are Writer frames and drawing objects, and the objects 'text box', 'graphic', 'frame', 'picture' etc. in MS Word.
In MS Word and in current versions of Writer, page header/footer content and footnote/endnote content does not wrap around floating screen objects. Text body content wraps around floating screen objects which are anchored in the page header.
In Writer versions prior to StarOffice 8 or OpenOffice.org 2.0, the opposite was true.
If the option is off, which is the default setting, the new text wrapping will be applied. If the option is on, the former text wrapping will be applied.
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| Consider wrapping style when positioning objects
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| Specifies how the complex process of positioning floating objects that are anchored to a character or paragraph should work. In Writer versions prior to StarOffice 8 or OpenOffice.org 2.0, an iterative process was used, while in current versions a straightforward process is used, which is similar to the same process in Microsoft Word.
If the option is off, the old LibreOffice iterative process of object positioning is used. If the option is on, the new straightforward process is used to ensure compatibility with Microsoft Word documents.
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| Expand word space on lines with manual line breaks in justified paragraphs
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| If enabled, Writer adds spacing between words, in lines that end with Shift+Enter in justified paragraphs. If disabled, spacing between words will not be expanded to justify the lines.
This setting is on by default for .odt text documents. It will be saved and loaded with the document in the .odt text document format. This setting cannot be saved in old .sxw text documents, so this setting is off for .sxw text documents.
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| Use as Default
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| Click to use the current settings on this tab page as the default for further sessions with LibreOffice.
The factory defaults are set as follows. Enabled are the following options, while all other options are disabled:
Add spacing between paragraphs and tables (in current document)
Add paragraph and table spacing at tops of pages (in current document)
Add paragraph and table spacing at bottom of table cells
Expand word space on lines with manual line breaks in justified paragraphs
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AutoCaption
Specifies the settings for captions that are automatically added to inserted objects.
Add captions automatically when inserting
Select the object type for which the AutoCaption settings are to be valid.
Caption
Defines the options to be applied to the selected object type. These options are identical to those in the Insert - Caption menu, which is available when an object is selected. Below the settings is a preview of the object category, together with numbering type.
| Category
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| Specifies the category of the selected object.
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| Numbering
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| Specifies the type of numbering required.
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| Separator
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| Defines the character to be displayed after the number of the heading or chapter level.
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| Position
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| Determines the position of the caption with respect to the object.
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Numbering captions by chapter
| Level
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| Specifies the headings or chapter levels where you want the numbering to start.
Defines the character to be displayed after the number of the heading or chapter level.
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Category and frame format
| Character style
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| Specifies the character style.
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| Apply border and shadow
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| Applies the border and shadow of the object to the caption frame.
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Mail Merge E-mail
Specifies the user information and server settings for when you send form letters as e-mail messages.
User information
Enter the user information to use when you send e-mail.
| Your name
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| Enter your name.
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| E-mail address
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| Enter your e-mail address for replies.
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| Send replies to different e-mail address
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| Uses the e-mail address that you enter in the Reply address text box as the reply-to e-mail address.
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| Reply address
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| Enter the address to use for e-mail replies.
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Outgoing server (SMTP) settings
Specify the server settings for outgoing e-mails.
| Server name
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| Enter the SMTP server name.
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| Port
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| Enter the SMTP port.
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| Use secure connection
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| When available, uses a secure connection to send e-mails.
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| Server Authentication
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| Opens the Server Authentication dialog where you can specify the server authentication settings for secure e-mail.
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| Test Settings
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| Opens the Test Account Settings dialog to test the current settings.
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LibreOffice Writer/Web
View
Snap Lines
Specifies settings that refer to the representation of boundaries.
| Helplines While Moving
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| Displays snap lines around the frames when frames are moved. You can select the Helplines While Moving option to show the exact position of the object using lineal values.
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| Helplines While Moving
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| Displays snap lines around the frames when frames are moved. You can select the Helplines While Moving option to show the exact position of the object using lineal values.
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View
Specifies whether scrollbars and rulers are displayed.
| Horizontal scrollbar
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| Displays the horizontal scrollbar.
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| Vertical scrollbar
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| Displays the vertical scrollbar.
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| Ruler
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| Enables the rulers. Use the following two check boxes to select the ruler(s) to be shown.
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| Horizontal ruler
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| Displays the horizontal ruler. Select the desired measurement unit from the corresponding list.
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| Vertical ruler
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| Displays the vertical ruler. Select the desired measurement unit from the corresponding list.
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| Right-aligned
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| These commands can only be accessed after you enable support for Asian languages in Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages.
Aligns the vertical ruler with the right border.
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| Smooth scroll
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| Activates the smooth page scrolling function. The scrolling speed depends of the area and of the color depth display.
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Display
Defines which document elements are displayed.
| Graphics and objects
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| Specifies whether to display graphics and objects on the screen. If these elements are hidden, you will see empty frames as placeholders.
You can also control the display of graphics through the Graphics On/Off icon. If a text document is open, this icon is displayed on the Tools bar.
If the Graphics and objects option is not selected, no graphics will be loaded from the Internet. Graphics within a table and without an indication of their size can cause display problems when using an older HTML standard on the browsed page.
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| Tables
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| Displays the tables contained in your document.
To display the table boundaries, right-click any table and choose Table Boundaries, or choose Table - Table Boundaries in a Writer document.
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| Drawings and controls
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| Displays the drawings and controls contained in your document.
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| Field codes
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| Displays the field names in the document instead of the contents of the fields. You can also choose View - Fields in a text document.
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| Comments
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| Displays comments. Click a comment to edit the text. Use the context menu in Navigator to locate or delete a comment. Use the comments's context menu to delete this comment or all comments or all comments of this author.
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Settings (for HTML document only)
| Measurement unit (for HTML document only)
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| Specifies the Unit for HTML documents.
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Formatting Aids
Display of
Defines which non-printing characters are visible on screen. Activate the Non-printing Characters icon on the Standard bar. All characters that you have selected on the Formatting Aids tab page will be displayed.
| Paragraph end
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| Specifies whether paragraph delimiters are displayed. The paragraph delimiters also contain paragraph format information.
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| Custom hyphens
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| Specifies whether user-defined delimiters are displayed. These are hidden delimiters that you enter within a word by pressing Ctrl+Hyphen(-). Words with user-defined delimiters are only separated at the end of a line at the point where a user-defined delimiter has been inserted, irrespective of whether the automatic hyphenation is activated or deactivated.
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| Spaces
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| Specifies whether to represent every space in the text with a dot.
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| Non-breaking spaces
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| Specifies that non-breaking spaces are shown as gray boxes. Non-breaking spaces are not broken at the end of a line and are entered with the Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar shortcut keys.
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| Tabs
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| Specifies that tab stops are displayed as small arrows.
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| Breaks
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| Displays all line breaks inserted with the Shift+Enter shortcut. These breaks create a new line, but do not start a new paragraph.
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| Hidden text
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| Displays text that uses the character format "hidden", when View - Non-printing Characters is enabled.
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| Insert
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Defines the insert options for the direct cursor. If you click at any position in your document, a new paragraph can be written or inserted exactly at this position. The properties of this paragraph depend on the selected option. You can select from the following options:
- Paragraph alignment: Sets the paragraph alignment when the direct cursor is used. Depending on where the mouse is clicked, the paragraph is formatted left aligned, centered or right aligned. The cursor before the mouse-click shows, by means of a triangle, which alignment is set.
- Left paragraph margin: When the direct cursor is used, the left paragraph indent is set at the horizontal position where you click the direct cursor. The paragraph is left aligned.
- Tabs: When the direct cursor is used, as many tabs as necessary are added in the new paragraph until the clicked position is reached.
- Tabs and Spaces: When the Direct Cursor is used, a corresponding number of tabs and spaces are inserted in the new paragraph as necessary until the clicked position is reached. All insert options refer only to the current paragraph generated with the Direct Cursor.
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| Cursor in protected areas
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You can select the following checkbox:
- Enable: Specifies that you can set the cursor in a protected area, but cannot make any changes.
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Grid
| Snap to grid
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| Specifies whether to move frames, drawing elements, and controls only between grid points. To change the status of the snap grip only for the current action, drag an object while holding down the Ctrl key.
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| Visible grid
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| Specifies whether to display the grid.
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Resolution
| Horizontal
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| Defines the unit of measure for the spacing between grid points on the X-axis.
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| Vertical
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| Defines the grid points spacing in the desired unit of measurement on the Y-axis.
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Subdivision
| Horizontal
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| Specify the number of intermediate spaces between grid points on the X-axis.
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| Vertical
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| Specify the number of intermediate spaces between grid points on the Y-axis.
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| Synchronize axes
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| Specifies whether to change the current grid settings symmetrically. The resolution and subdivision for the X and Y axes remain the same.
When in Draw: There are additional commands on the context menu of a page:When in Impress: There are additional commands on the context menu of a page:
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Print
Specifies print settings within a text or HTML document.
Choose Tools - Options - LibreOffice Writer/ LibreOffice Writer/Web - Print
The print settings defined on this tab page apply to all subsequent print jobs, until you change the settings again. If you want to change the settings for the current print job only, use the File - Print dialog.
Contents
Specifies which document contents are to be printed.
| Pictures and objects
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| Specifies whether the graphics of your text document are printed.
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| Form controls
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| Specifies whether the form control fields of the text document are printed.
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| Page background
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| Specifies whether to include colors and objects that are inserted to the background of the page (Format - Page - Background) in the printed document.
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| Print black
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| Specifies whether to always print text in black.
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| Hidden text
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| Enable this option to print text that is marked as hidden. The following hidden text is printed: text that is formatted as hidden by Format - Character - Font Effects - Hidden, and the text fields Hidden text and Hidden paragraphs.
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| Text placeholder
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| Enable this option to print text placeholders. Disable this option to leave the text placeholders blank in the printout.Text placeholders are fields.
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Pages
| Brochure
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| Select the Brochure option to print your document in brochure format. The brochure format is as follows in LibreOffice Writer:
If you print a document in portrait on a landscape page, two opposing sides in a brochure will be printed next to each other. If you have a printer with double-sided printing capability, you can create an entire brochure from your document without having to collate the pages later. If you have a printer that only has single-sided printing capability, you can achieve this effect by first printing the front pages with the "Front sides / right pages /odd pages" option marked, then re-inserting the entire paper stack in your printer and printing all the back pages with the "Back pages / left pages / even pages" option marked.
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Specifies whether comments in your document are printed. The following options are available (radio buttons):
- None
- Comments only
- End of document
- End of page
Other
| Print automatically inserted blank pages
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| If this option is enabled, automatically-inserted blank pages are being printed. This is best if you are printing double-sided. For example, in a book, a "chapter" paragraph style has been set to always start with an odd numbered page. If the previous chapter ends on an odd page, LibreOffice inserts an even numbered blank page. This option controls whether to print that even numbered page or not.
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| Paper tray from printer settings
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| For printers with multiple trays, the "Paper tray from printer settings" option specifies whether the paper tray used is specified by the system settings of the printer.
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| Fax
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| If you have installed fax software on your computer and wish to fax directly from the text document, select the desired fax machine.
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Table
Defines the attributes of tables in text documents.
Specifies the default settings for columns and rows and the table mode. Also specifies the standard values for moving and inserting columns and rows. For further information see When in Writer: Editing Tables Using the Keyboard in the LibreOffice Writer Help.
Choose Tools - Options - LibreOffice Writer/LibreOffice Writer/Web - Table
Default
Defines the defaults for all newly created text tables in text documents.
| Heading
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| Specifies that the first row of the table is formatted with the "Table heading" Paragraph Style.
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| Repeat on each page
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| Specifies whether the table heading is carried over onto the new page after a page break.
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| Border
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| Specifies that table cells have a border by default.
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Input in tables
| Number recognition
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| Specifies that numbers in a text table are recognized and formatted as numbers.
If Number recognition is not marked, numbers are saved in text format and are automatically left-aligned.
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| Number format recognition
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| If Number format recognition is not marked, only input in the format that has been set at the cell is accepted. Any other input resets the format to Text.
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| Alignment
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| Specifies that numbers are always bottom right aligned in the cell. If this field is not marked numbers are always top left aligned in the cell. Direct formatting is not influenced by the Alignment field. If you center align the cell contents directly, they remain centered irrespective of whether text or numbers are involved.
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Keyboard handling
| Move cells
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Defines the default settings for moving rows and columns with the keyboard.
- Row: Specifies the value to be used for moving a row.
- Column: Specifies the value to be used for moving a column.
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| Insert
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Specifies the default settings for inserting rows and columns with the keyboard.
- Row: Specifies the default value for inserting rows.
- Column: Specifies the default value for inserting columns.
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| Behavior of rows/columns
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Determines the relative effect of rows and columns on adjacent rows or columns, as well as on the entire table.
- Fixed: Specifies that changes to a row or column only affect the corresponding adjacent area.
- Fixed, proportional: Specifies that changes to a row or column have an effect on the entire table.
- Variable: Specifies that changes to a row or column affect the table size.
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Background
Specifies the background for HTML documents. The background is valid for both new HTML documents and for those that you load, as long as these have not defined their own background. Further information is at [1].
Back
Resets modified values back to the LibreOffice default values.
