Re: [libreoffice-users] left/right pages

At 19:47 28/04/2014 -0700, Truett Bobo wrote:
> In the last few days, anytime I create a new LO Writer document it 
> is formatted with left and right pages.  And some of my past 
> documents are formatted that way as well.  I would like to return 
> all my documents to single page format, but have been unsuccessful 
> in discovering how to do this.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this. If you print something 
double-sided - as LibreOffice expects - every document will 
necessarily have left pages and right pages. Do you mean that 
alternate pages are formatted in some different way? In that case, it 
might be helpful to know what this is. But in any case, it's 
difficult to imagine how a page formatting change could modify 
existing documents, as you suggest.

I wonder whether you are merely describing the way that Writer 
displays your documents whilst you are editing them. If this is your 
problem, go to View | Zoom... . There are various settings there and 
you can experiment to find what suits you. You can also adjust these 
settings in a number of ways using controls at the right end of the 
Status Bar (at the bottom of the LibreOffice window). If, as it 
seems, you changed something inadvertently, it may be that you 
clicked on one of these controls in the Status Bar. Changes to the 
way you view documents do indeed stick for your installation of 
LibreOffice (or rather your use of it); I'm not sure whether they can 
affect the way you see existing documents.

Note that there are similar but separate controls for how you view 
documents in Page Preview mode.

> Could it be related to a document which I created a while back with 
> two columns?

Very probably not.

> Though it does in fact have 2 columns, I discovered that it is 
> identified as having only 1 column in the page format window 
> (format > page > columns).

If the page format you see has only one column but the document 
genuinely prints with two columns, there are a number of explanations:
o The pages with two columns have a different page style from the one 
you checked. (Documents can have multiple page styles.)
o The material in columns is contained in a section, a structure 
which can independently have multiple columns.
o The material in columns is contained in a table.
o The columns were constructed in some other way, perhaps in frames.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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