Hey! I'm moving my manuscript over to libreoffice and I was really intrigued by the Master Document file type. I made sure the format on the Master Document was correct for a professional manuscript but when I tried to add my prologue as a Sub Document, the formatting changed back to the default. Any tips and tricks would be very appreciated as I am very new to this!

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Version: [26.8.1.1](http://26.8.1.1) (X86_64)

Build ID: bf6ef2662401c7d6dce671ab4deb26ee0af3a7c1

CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26300); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win

Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US

Calc: threaded

File type: .odm / .odt

I did my formatting in the text portion, the very first thing that opened when I opened the document. It doesn't have a chain link by it so maybe that's the issue? I'm unsure.

If that is the issue, how do I fix it? if the format linked to the first "document" in the navigator?

Edit: I tried making a new document and insured all of the formatting was correct but still no luck when it comes to adding new sub documents which stinks because I really didn't want to have to format every single chapter but again, I might be doing it wrong.

Hello!
I have text that looks like this.
Line 1: Blah blah blah action dialogue
Line 2: Blah blah action dialogue

I want it to look like this.

Line 1: Blah blah blah action dialogue

Line 2: Blah blah action dialogue

With a full break between every line. This is for converting to LaTeX, otherwise I need to do it by hand.
Converting everything by hand is extremely time-burning and also it hurts my hands to do over 1500-2000 lines of text.
Is there a way to do this? To add a full, whole ass line break between existing lines?

"Not
This"

"Like

This"

Full paragraph break between every line.

Edit: Not space, it needs to be a fully registered line break, as if I hit the enter key after every line.

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR REMINDING ME REGEX EXISTS

I ended up working out how to do it in my text editor (we love Kate) instead of Libre but I did it! Saving my precious lil hands

I'm using v26.2.5.1 of LibreOffice, and I notice that one .doc file (4.2MB), containing nothing but text, which used to load in 2 or 3 seconds, is now taking more like 20-30 seconds. Not seeing any other slowdown on my system; it seems to be limited to L.O. and/or this file. Any idea why, or how to speed it up?

How do I get this to stop popping up? I downloaded the binary file in the correct language and installed it but this still pops up. I hit the allow updating option but again, this still pops up.

Version: 26.8.1.1 (X86_64)

Build ID: bf6ef2662401c7d6dce671ab4deb26ee0af3a7c1

CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26300); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win

Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US

Calc: threaded

.odm / .odt file type (master document with sub documents)

Solved: It was tools, options, libreoffice, security, macro security, trusted sources, and then I just had to add my folder to trusted sources

I wanted a PPTX that I generate to carry its own font, so I ran one slide through four variants and rendered each to PDF with LibreOffice 26.8.0.3, then checked which font ended up in the file with pdffonts. The font was VT323, which isn't installed on this computer.

With nothing embedded, the PDF used fallback fonts (FrankRuhlHofshi-Bold and LinuxLibertineG). VT323-Regular only showed up when the fntdata was an uncompressed EOT (Flags 0) and embedTrueTypeFonts="1" was set on the presentation. A raw TTF with the attribute, or the same EOT without it, gave the same fallback as embedding nothing. That matches what I read about the import code, that it only looks at the embedded font list when the attribute is true and always treats the data as EOT, though I only read it and didn't step through it.

All of this is LibreOffice on one build. I don't have PowerPoint here, so I don't know what it does with an uncompressed EOT. Has anyone seen older LibreOffice versions handle the attribute or the raw TTF differently?

I used AI to help draft this and checked it against my experiment notes.

Details: LibreOffice 26.8.0.3 (bce0998afefdbc355585ca324285661a2170ba77) on macOS 15.7.3 arm64, with a .pptx file. I can paste the relevant bit of presentation.xml if useful.

Select the page you want to change, open its page properties and clear "Resize all pages" before changing the size or orientation.

That option arrived in LibreOffice 26.8. A portrait cover and a landscape diagram can now sit in the same Draw document, with each page keeping its own dimensions. For a job report, I'd rather give a wide diagram its own page than shrink it until the labels are barely readable.

Source: The Document Foundation's LibreOffice 26.8 release announcement confirms that Draw supports multiple page sizes in one document.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/

Hello, I am fairly new to Libreoffice. I recently switched to Linux and only really had experience with MicroSoft Word, so please excuse me if this is cause by me being an idiot on some pretty rudimentary concepts. Essentially, I have a fairly complex .odt file with twenty or so images, tables, etc... I export to .docx and the first time I open the new document it is pristine, the exact same as the odt file. The second time I open it it becomes completely jumbled mess (image for reference), and many images simply disappear, the only thing left being is their frames. When I upload the .docx file on google docs, the same problem occurs.

The problem is I cannot simply get delete the frames and paste the images on the document. I need them to be captioned, so frames are a necessity as far as I known.

Is there any way to fix this? Am I doing something very wrong? I insert images using the insert tool, same as with the tables.

Libreoffice info:

Version: 26.2.6.3 (X86_64)

Build ID: 620(Build:3)

CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 7.2; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3

Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US

Calc: threaded

Hello!

I created the style "ABNT-TITULOS" (in which ABNT means the norm of documents here in Brazil and Titulos is basically titles) and whenever i try to change the style of the paragraph to another (ANBT-Corpo, Corpo means body), it changes the title style too.

And theres more! When i press enter, it makes a new page. I think it has to do with the Tools > Title numeration. In the video, i click in the "Ferramentas" (tools) tab and then i click in the "Numeração de título" (title numeration) option to show my options in this config.

I used these tabs to make an summary.

May someone help me?

(Linux Fedora in LibreOffice Writer)

Info:
Version: 25.8.7.3 (X86_64)

Build ID: 580(Build:3)

CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 7.2; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3

Locale: pt-BR (pt_BR.UTF-8); UI: pt-BR

Calc: threaded

How can I achieve that whenever Writer in started on Sequoia, either with an empty document or by clicking on an .odt document, the Writer window is resized and repositioned to 1/3 width (full height) of my iMac 27” and centered?

Version: 26.8.0.3 (X86_64)

Build ID: bce0998afefdbc355585ca324285661a2170ba77

CPU threads: 16; OS: macOS 15.8.2; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: osx

Locale: nl-NL (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US

Calc: threaded

https://imgur.com/a/fhBaz69

Hello everyone is possible to setup the calc tabs in a cascade menu i have a multiple spreadsheet inside a single file and will be a lot easy search if was a cascade menu.

It looks weird and takes vertical space

Version: 26.8.0.3 (X86_64)

Build ID: bce0998afefdbc355585ca324285661a2170ba77

CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 7.2; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3

Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US

Calc: threaded

Hello everyone,

I was adding some commands to my toolbar today in Libre Calc and most of them work fine, but the text icon is grayed out and has a mini setting icon in the corner of it. Clicking the icon does nothing. Doesn’t even highlight it when I hover my mouse. I tried researching on google but all the sources I see are about icon visibility, not about if they actually work. I can’t find a single thing about why the settings icon is on top of it either.

The text tool works just fine when I go to the menu for Format -> Text. It just doesn’t want to work in the tool bar. If anyone has any idea how to fix this, please let me know. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

I included a picture of the messed up text icon and an example of the functional spell check icon for comparison.

All of my text documents are forcibly shifted to the right of my screen. This is only occurring on my Windows 11 laptop. I think it popped up after I switched the view out of landscape, but since putting everything back in that regard it's just stuck like this.
I did a full uninstall and reinstall of Libre Office and power cycled the laptop. Still persists.

Howdy,

I am running LibreOffice Version: 26.8.0.3 (AARCH64) on MacOS 27.0.1, and I will be damned if I can figure out how to execute the insertion of a new basic macro into (running the base IDE) My Macros & Dialogs > Standard.

Have been working between LibreOffice Help, and Claude, and it is still a mystery.

If anyone is a wizard at this, I would really appreciate a helping hand. ✌️

These are text only documents, and their original creation was in LibreOffice Word. They weren't ported over from Microsoft, they do not contain graphs, images, or weblinks. Just text. One document is a little less than 66k words and the other is a little less than 88k words. I have another document I'm working on, one that is a little less than 156k words, and the spellcheck on that one works fine.

The issue I'm running into is that it is telling me that the spellcheck has been completed, without actually checking anything in those two documents. I have tried closing out and restarting those documents, and I've tried closing out and restarting the app itself, but so far nothing has worked. Does anyone know what this is or how to fix it? (I really need spellcheck, lol.)

On by default/able to be set as your default in the same menus where you can check it. (Big SLASH there in case this is somehow controversial but,) Genuinely it should be on by default and then alphabetical should be the optional one you flip a switch for.

I'm sick to tears of my spreadsheet forgetting how to count every time I put a letter in the cell; I KNOW, it's a ""TEXT""" cell now and it doesn't know that that 1-0 is actually a "10" and higher than that 2 it's now above, I Know, but it's STUPID and BAD that it works like that!!! My spreadsheet should still be able to Count no matter what I do to it, it is a Spreadsheet!!!!!!!!!! Nerds bred these things in captivity exclusively for their ability to Arrange Numbers, have I gone mad???

Ahem. It's been a rough decade, and my Spreadsheet dropping to 9 IQ because it can't count any higher WASN'T the straw that broke my today, but learning after a lot of deadend searches that not only can my Spreadsheet still count even when there's a letter there, oh no, there's a whole BUTTON to fix that. A Whole Singular Button, hidden in a menu my right-click to Sort shortcut doesn't even open by default, and then in another menu behind that one (Normal Libre user moment I know; I want the breadth of features, I don't have to LIKE how obtuse they are to interact with). And this magical Secret Button labelled "Enable Natural Sort" just tells my Spreadsheet how to count again! It's amazing! It's a miracle! It only stays checked for that one sort and you have to go in and click it every single time, and there's no way to make it stay on. *Gru looking at last panel bewildered meme* THAT is what broke me, that is what caused this rant to happen. My stupid problem that shouldn't even be possible to be a problem, because a Spreadsheet should be able to COUNT. Ahem. Can be fixed with just 7 agonizing clicks to reach 1 button, every single time I want to go stumbling through the Secret Garden to find it.

But for some reason I can't just leave the box checked? I can't change my default Sort setting to Natural? There's no "Sort (Natural)" button? These evil horrible boxes we call computers have the audacity to cost a fortune, ruin our lives, spy on us, and then we have to remind them how to count past 9 with 7 clicks every time? For legal reasons this statement has been redacted!!!!!

Okay okay, it's funny to blow off steam getting fake furious at a spreadsheet function in a reddit post, but in all seriousness; this button needs to be a permanent toggle and said toggle needs to be 2 screens closer to the user, there's just no reason not to at least make it more accessible. It would change nothing for any existing user to simply make it stay on after you click it until you un-click it at the very least (AND move it like 2 screens closer to the user I'm not kidding why is it Hidden like that?)

First idk if anyone knew abt this but I was writing a report, and I noticed that Grammarly was working on LibreOffice, mind you, I don't use any extensions.

Like, up to yesterday it didn't use to work on LibreOffice, but today it suddenly does.