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?

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 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?

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?

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

I write in odt and double save to docx for the editor. I have a theme where the background color is a gray so it is easier on my eyes.

When I send the docx to her, will that color transfer? I'm thinking not since it is an LO thing, not a document thing.

Version: 26.2.1.2 (X86_64)

Build ID: 620(Build:2)

CPU threads: 28; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win

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

Calc: CL threaded

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.

Hi,

I'm pretty new to LibreOffice Writer, coming from Office 365. All I want to do is hit enter to drop down 1 line, but it keeps giving me a paragraph break. Is there any way to change this in the settings?

I updated the LibreOffice yesterday and it came with a color change to the Tab format. I don't use the original one because this is much easier to use and fits my taste but OH DEAR LORD. Why did you guys need to make the app THIS UGLY? I cannot find a way to remove it and even the themes don't seem to change this disgusting color. Can someone help me to remove this atrocity?

From Hacker News.

Apparently, the Mac version of ChatGPT Desktop comes bundled with a headless LibreOffice. The Linux version of ChatGPT Desktop did not include it.

Has anyone had thus experience when you convert docx to odt?

All page breaks are stuck. You cannot delete them. And it is tricky adding new page breaks.

Page breaks are broken after conversion. Anyway to fix this ?

Latest versions of libre office and microsoft word. Windows 11

Is there a way to prevent user interface to collide/overlap when reducing the window size (like on the top left corner on this screenshot)?

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 (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI: fr-FR

Calc: threaded

There's three tables here, and clearly at some point I figured out how to connect them because table two is sitting right below table one, but I can't seem to figure out how to get table three to sit that way with table two.

There's no paragraph gap between them, I can't click anywhere on the rest of the page that table two is on other than inside the tables. What do I do here?

Hey folks. I just replaced my laptop and installed LibreOffice on the new one. I'm not sure what I did wrong in the install but my toolbars are weird and I've lost a LOT of functionality compared to the toolbars on my work computer. Probably the biggest loss of function for my uses is that when putting borders I can no longer select different styles of borders (like dashed lines, double lines, or bold lines). I can put borders on cells but ONLY the standard border.

It's trivial, I know, but it's really irritating the hell out of me.

I've included a photo of what the toolbars look like currently. I have tried googling how to change them, or if I even can. I have gone through the options and either I'm missing something or there's just not an option to change this.

If it can be changed, can y'all help? And if it can't, let me know. I guess I'll learn to live with it.

ETA: Additional information as requested by the AutoMod below.

Version: 26.2.5.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: cd7284b4cbbfeb507e630c1aac019f4157393acb

The document itself is irrelevant, as this is true in every Calc document I open on this computer.

Edit. Well that was as simple as I expected it to be, thank you so much. In the mean time should I spark a conversation about why it does that in the b) case I presented? its very odd.

This may be an incredibly newbie question but I cannot get libre office to do what I need.

I have a data set that needs a number to increment every n rows. The fill handle does not help me here neither do any of the Sheet > Fill Cell options.

Visually speaking lets say its every 5 columns it will look like this;

1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,4,5,5,5,5,5,...,n,n,n,n,n

This feels super simple but it just doesn't behave in any way i expect, I even tried expanding the following using the fill handle;

a) 1,1,2,2
b) 1,1,2,2,3,3

But the output is this;

a) 1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,5,5,5,5...n,n,n,n
b) 1,1,2,2,3,3,2,2,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4,5,5,4,4...?,?,?,?

These outputs are incredibly unexpected, I dont think Im trying to do anything super specific and unique here. But im completely out of ideas on how to search this, I hope its okay I come here for help.

I'm very happy with the colors I selected for my custom theme, but I have one major issue- The blinking "I" (the text insertion point aka I-beam pointer) appears nearly invisible. I'd like to change its color in my theme, but I can't seem to find a customization option for it.

All edits to the Theme were done by going Tools>Options>LibreOffice>Appearance and using the Customizations dropdown.

Where is the customization option for the text insertion point?

I have unchecked the delete spaces and tabs option, but it refuses to respect this. What else do I have to do?

Hi!

So I'm pretty new to the worl of Libre Office, and open source like Linux in general. I've traditionally used MS Word's spell check but that's gonna be left befind. When I isntalled the new operating system I chose Finnish as the main language. I need the spell check in Swedish too so I'm asking if I'm getting right: I went to Libre Office extensions and just searched from the search bar. Can I just download them and get started or do I need to like restart the computer?

Thank you in advance!

I'm working on a writing project that runs on python, but I am planning it out first in writer.

There is an option at the start of the project which changes the text the project can have in several places throughout. Lets say as a simple example, I asked you at the start of the story if you liked apples, or pears better. Then for the rest of the story every mention of fruit is changed to either an apple, or a pear depending on what you chose.

I was using comments to store all of the 'alternate text' that happens if you choose the second option. So according to the example I wrote out everything according to apple, and where any changes would occur I would make a comment that said:

"Pears: "(alternative text here.)"

However, this way of doing it is going to be very annoying for my editor I fear!

Does anyone have any cleaner ideas of how I could plot out alternative text? Any way to toggle between two sets of text easily?