As the title says.

I'm really happy to be done with MS, but I keep opening word docs that I can't edit because "this document is write protected".

The advice I found online is to "Tools > Options > LibreOffice Writer > Formatting Aids and adjusting the Protected Areas settings"

However, in 'Formatting Aids', "Protected Area" only has a box to toggle the cursor, which doesn't change the ability to edit the doc.

Today, I opening a document I was working on yesterday and go the "this document is write protected message", I checked, saw it was a word doc, copy and pasted it into another document, and get the same message.

I assume/hope there is something simple I am missing here.

For context, I am using a tabbed view, so sometimes I struggle to find settings.

My best guess, is that I used Zotero to generate references, and now Libre is protecting that for some reason. Sometimes I get edit the body text but not the references, sometimes the whole document is protected.

Thanks for your help!

Anybody else having issues with the top toolbar ?
I'm using Calc, but mostly Writer and sometimes Impress.
I don't want to report it until I can confirm others are having the same issue. If it's fullscreen I no longer have issues, but it juste doesn't resize like on MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint

Info :
Version: 26.8.0.3 (AARCH64)

Build ID: bce0998afefdbc355585ca324285661a2170ba77

CPU threads: 8; OS: macOS 26.6.2; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: osx

Locale: fr-FR (es_ES.UTF-8); UI: fr-FR

Calc: threaded

I have an image I use as a divider in my document. So far I've done a copy-paste whenever I need it, and they're anchored as characters. It works. 🤷‍♀️

But now I am currently sitting at 253 images in my document, so I've been trying to see if there'd be a better way of doing it. 😅

I did find a 10yo how-to post on starting with the horizontal line and then editing the style to be a bitmap, but I sure can't find that option on my libreoffice.

I'm running version 26.2.4.2 on Windows 11.

edit to add: It is an odt document. The image can be almost whatever format.

Just as the title states. I can not use my computer for anything now other than basic google searches, youtube, and writing text files. My email doesn't even work any more. The one and only alteration to my system was installing LibreOffice. Everything was fine before I did this, graphics is toast after the installation. NOTHING that requires graphics works. I have tried safe mode for Libre and "Disable Hardware Acceleration" which is already unchecked. I have tried:

Tools > Options > LibreOffice > View, and uncheck hardware acceleration or Skia rendering .

But "Use Skia for all rendering" is greyed out and unalterable.

I have tried a System Restore which of coarse failed. Undoing the System Restore of coarse fails as well. My Graphics are up to date. I have run all 3 of my antivirus/anti malwares. I have uninstalled Libre and my graphics are still f'ed. I had to reinstall it to try some fixes.

I'd like to have my computer back and functioning as it should! Any help is greatly appreciated!

Hi,

from time to time, I need to do several find & replace steps in a specific order in different documents. I wonder if there is an extension which allows me to create/save such a set of find & replace rules so that I can reuse them.

For file names, ReNamer is able to do this, but for texts, I haven’t found a suitable software/extension/whatever...

I'm using Times New Roman for my documents, but whenever I do anything, Libre Office immediately changes the font to Calibri. And I do mean anything. I type a line break: Calibri! I switch between italics and normal style: Calibri! I delete a line break between two paragraphs: Calibri! I toggle between Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y to compare two text versions: suddenly everything is Calibri! I insert a text box and change it from Calibri to something else; next time I open the document, it's in Calibri again! I mean, seriously? This is bordering on obsession! Is it a bug or some kind of font preaching?
The most most frustrating part, however, is that every time my text gets calibrized by using Ctrl+Y, all the underlining, bolding, and italics are wiped out, and not even Ctrl+Z brings them back! How is that even possible? It feels like I’m fighting the program rather than using it.

I have a IT exam in a few days and i rlly need to do practicals for it but I have a tablet (Android),any way to get the WRITER.urgent STRICTLY ONLY LIBREOFFICE NO ALTERNATIVESS 😭😭🙏🏻

This is from a PDF that I had to convert back into a word doc in order to edit it in LibreOffice. This has left me with a ton of strange nonsensical formatting errors that were not in the original document, with the most frustrating one being these random page breaks. The button to delete them only shows up when it feels like it, and it's so annoying. Is there an easier way to get rid of these? How did it even get here in the first place?

[Solved] Thank you.

I have text:

It now seems that the right

time is fast approaching.

Customers have complained.

We don't yet know what it will be called.

I want to find sequence: end of paragraph, text in new paragraph that starts with small letter (here: time) and replace end of paragraph with space so that the word that was with small letter is moved to the previous paragraph.

Lines (paragraphs) that start with capital letter should remain untouched.

Help me find Replace field command.

Orchis-Light-Compact GTK theme for LibreOffice flatpack seems to fix what I expected it to look on my desktop

EDIT BEFORE ORIGINAL:

Im back to the app because of tomassplatch. He said:

"You can actually disable it by going to Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Advanced - Open Expert Configuration.

In expert configuration search for NotebookbarColorTransparency. The default value should be 150, if you modify it to 255 and restart the app, the coloration should dissappear."

Dear God. Yeah. I've turn it off but why make it such a pain to take it off? Can't it be placed in the APPEARANCE tab?

Anyway. Thanks tomas.

ORIGINAL WAS:

I will be leaving the app. At least until the correction is made. My explanation bellow:

The update 26.8.0.3 came with a lot of improvements wich is a really good thing but it also came with a new feature where the Task Bar/Ribbon becomes the same color as the app (If it is calc it is going to be green, write will be blue). This pallette is too colorful for me so I tried to remove it. Looks like there is no option to do so. I downloaded new themes to use and try to pass by the color change but it simply ignores the choosen theme when I apply it. I use the app on Ribbon because I got used to the Microsoft Office Suite all my life. There is almost two years that I made the transition to Linux and LibreOffice became the G.O.A.T of my computer and I use ribbon for the familiarity (the button are basically in the same place as the Microsoft ones). I used it before transitioning even on Windows to not pay the suite. I love dark color themes so when I discovered this change that cannot be undone it made me really annoyed. Sorry to say but the color is horrendous. I know that some people will like it and I will not gona discuss taste here but it is a fact that is not on MY taste and that it cannot be changed yet (At least for what I saw).

I will try another office and in the future if this is corrected I may come back because it is an overall powerful and amazing software that I already got used to.

And if there is actually any way to disable this color feature that I haven't found please let me know. I searched everywhere I could but I did not find it. I'm not a tech savy or expert in Linux. Just a common user with interests in the FOSS ecosystem like a lot of people.

Since then I thank everyone of the comunity and another thanks in advance to anyone that could help me solve this problem so I can return to use it.

My system:

Linux 7.2.2-1 | CachyOS | KDE Plasma | Qt/Wayland

LibreOffice Version: 26.8.0.3 (X86_64)

Also, english is not my main language so pardon me for any slip ups (open for corrections because it is the way to improve in anything)

I have been using libreoffice for more than 10 years. I was always fine with the default language (english) but recently I tried adding a few other languages because I need them for my new job (Greek and Spanish). I'm an experienced used and still, I lost patience after 1 hour of tinkering with it!

I do not mean to offend anybody; I"m really grateful for the amazing suite but seriously, what were the designers thinking??? Why is it such a convoluted process? Why is it not just "add spell-check language", dropdown menu, choose language, download file???????? Wow, if I wanted to make it more complicated I couldn't imagine a better way.

I'm just baffled.... Can someone please explain the "logic" behind this?

Set the GTK Application Style to Adwaita. I was unpleasantly surprised at how it looked after today's update

If the title isn't clear: I want the page count to start, not from 1, but from n. I can manage to do that partially by "dislodging" the page number by x amount (double clicking on the page number), but that only seems to "bring forward" the page numbers, so if the document only has like 10 pages, I can't "dislodge" the page number by 11; and if I disloge the first by 9, the rest of them will just be numberless.

Is there not a way to make the document start from like 10, regardless of how many pages it has, and keep it going?

I'm getting very tired of Google's embrace of AI and other issues and have already been pondering switching to LibreOffice for awhile. How hard is the switch?

If I open LibreOfgice 26.2 writer than I always get the recovery pop up. Once I press recover it opens shortly another window which also closes automatically. This seems an infinite loop for every odt document (even a new). Does somebody know how to solve this. I did already a reinstall but that didn't help. Many thanks

I just bought a new mac and installed LibreOffice for the first time ever. I went to AutoCorrect then Word Completion and under Collected Words is every single password I've ever used and more. How did this happen? I'm not signed-in to a browser. You can simply delete them and I'm not worried except for the fact that I have zero idea how this has my password I used for Blackboard in college in 2018. I did not migrate my old machine to my new one and my Apple account only has 5 saved passwords. Any ideas?

Edit for the bots: 1. I looked in Help. 2. My question is not related to a particular document. 3. There is no document. 4. I believe that all relevant info is in the original body of my question above but if anyone has any questions please ama.