View

Normal Layout

Displays how the document will look when you print it.

Web Layout

Displays the document as it would be viewed in a Web browser. This is useful when you create HTML documents.

User Interface

Opens the Select Your Preferred User Interface dialog to let you choose the user interface layout for LibreOffice.

HTML Source

Displays the source text of the current HTML document. This view is available when creating a new HTML document or opening an existing one.

Toolbars

Opens a submenu to show and hide toolbars. A toolbar contains icons and options that let you quickly access LibreOffice commands.

Status Bar

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

Rulers

Contains a submenu for showing or hiding the horizontal and vertical rulers.

Scroll Bars

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 Help Lines

Toggle the visibility of grid points and guide lines to help object moving and precise position in the current page.

Formatting Marks

Shows hidden formatting symbols in your text, such as paragraph marks, line breaks, tab stops, 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 or hides the borders of table cells that have no set borders. The boundaries are only visible on screen and are not printed.

Images and Charts

Show or hide graphical objects like images and charts within a document.

Show Whitespace

Displays the document with the top and bottom margins, header and footer and a gap between pages. Uncheck to collapse all the elements cited and display the document in a contiguous page stream. Hiding whitespace is only possible in Single-page view.

Show Track Changes

Shows or hides recorded changes.

Show or hide a document's comments and replies to them.

Resolved Comments

Show or hide resolved comments.

Field Shadings

Shows or hides shadings around fields in your document like non-breaking spaces, soft hyphens, indexes, and footnotes.

Field Names

Switches between showing fields as field names or field values. When enabled the field names are displayed, and when disabled the field values displayed. Some field contents cannot be displayed.

Field Hidden Paragraphs

Shows or hides hidden paragraphs. This option only affects the screen display of hidden paragraphs, and not the printing of hidden paragraphs.

Sidebar

The Sidebar is a vertical graphical user interface that primarily provides contextual properties, style management, document navigation, media gallery and more features.

Manage Styles

Use the Styles deck of the Sidebar to apply, create, edit, and remove formatting styles. Double-click an entry to apply the style.

Gallery

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

Navigator

Shows or hides the Navigator window, where you can quickly jump to different parts of your document.

Data Sources

Lists the databases that are registered in LibreOffice and lets you manage the contents of the databases.

Full Screen

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.

Opens the Zoom & View Layout dialog to let you set the zoom factor to display the current document.