View menu

M1-R5.1 & CCC · Chapter 3: Word Processing (Libre-Office Writer) · 4 min read

View Menu 

This menu contains commands for controlling the on-screen display of the document. 

Writer View Type:

i. Normal (By Default View) 

ii. Web 

Toolbars: Opens a sub menu to show and hide toolbars. A toolbar contains icons and options that let you quikly access Libre-office commands (3D- settings, Drawing toolbar, Formatting toolbar, standard toolbar, Drawing objects........etc). 

User Interface: The LibreOffice Writer user interface is highly customizable, offering several "User Interface Variants" accessible through View > User Interface.Common UI elements include:

  • Menu Bar
  • Toolbars with icons for common actions                                                                            
  • A central Workspace for text
  • Optional Sidebars for context-specific tools
  • A Status Bar for document details like word count and zoom

Users can switch to a tabbed or single-toolbar interface to suit their workflow or screen size. 

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

Rulers(Ctrl+Shift+R): Contains a sub-menu for showing hiding the horizontal and vertical rulers. 

Scrollbars: 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 Helpline: Grid and help lines help with object movement and precise positioning.

Formattinge Marke (C1-F10): Shows Hidden formatting symbols in your jext,such as a paragraph marks, Line breaks, Tab and spaces. 

Text Boundaries: Shows or Hides the boundaries of the printable area of a page. The boundary lines are not printed. 

Table Boundaries: Shows/Hides the borders of the cells. 

Images and charts: Show/Hide graphical object like images and charts within a document. 

Comments: Show/Hide a documents comments. 

Hide whitespace: Show/Hide white spaces found at beginning and the end of pages. 

Track changes: Shows or hides record changes. 

Field Names(Ctrl+F9): Shows or hides Field Names. 

Field Shadings(Ctrl+F18): Shows or hides Shadings around fields in your document. 

Sidebar(Ctrl+F5): Shows or hides sidebar. 

Styles (F11): Use the styles, create, edit and remove formatting styles. Double-click an entry to apply the style. 

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

Navigator(F5):Shows/Hides the navigator window, where you can quickly jump to different parts of your document. 

Data sources(Ctrl+Shift+F4) 

Full Screen (Ctr+Shift+J): 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: Reduce or enlarges the screen display of Libre-office. 

Entire page, page width, optimal view,50%,75%, 100%, 150%,200%,zoom