Design/Whiteboards/Options/Writer

Guides
Specifies settings that refer to the representation of boundaries.

View
Specifies whether scrollbars and rulers are displayed.

Display
Defines which document elements are displayed.

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.

Direct cursor
Defines all the properties of the direct cursor (not for HTML documents).

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.

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.

Comments
Specifies whether comments in your document are printed. The following options are available (radio buttons):
 * None
 * Comments only
 * End of document
 * End of page

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Outgoing server (SMTP) settings
Specify the server settings for outgoing e-mails.

Snap Lines
Specifies settings that refer to the representation of boundaries.

View
Specifies whether scrollbars and rulers are displayed.

Display
Defines which document elements are displayed.

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.

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.

Comments
Specifies whether comments in your document are printed. The following options are available (radio buttons):
 * None
 * Comments only
 * End of document
 * End of page

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.

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.

Back
Resets modified values back to the LibreOffice default values.