[Solved] Help blurred texts and image

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[Solved] Help blurred texts and image

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Hello can someone help me i'm a mac user of open office writer. How do i reset or unbluur the texts while im typing my in my document?
I want to see all the texts while im typing? Theres a white arrow that appears on the document. Thanks for the help
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See if Q39/A39 in Tutorial: Mac FAQ helps.
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hi i tried what you said but it did make my open office low res but may problem is still there. what i mean was there were black and white arrows that keeps appearing on my document. thanks for the reply
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Without being able to see your monitor it is a little hard to say what your problem might be. For a wild guess you have turned on View | Non-printing characters - which you can toggle with that menu item or using (the equivalent of) Ctrl + F10.

If that isn't the solution, perhaps a screen shot might help. See How to attach a document for details regarding attaching a document. Note maximum file size is 128K. If your file is larger, use a file sharing site such as Mediafire and post the link here. Crop images as needed and reduce the colour depth if the image is too big.
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And for another wild guess, if the arrows appear above the text area, perhaps you have toggled Tools | Gallery ??
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Or if the arrows are in the text, and there are backwards P characters and black dots between words, you may have toggled /View /Non printing characters./
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hi this is what is looked like in open office writer. Thank you so much for all the help!! :)
here is the photo
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vnsDkA ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nGBJVH ... sp=sharing
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Don't remember ever seeing that arrow on the right of the text area.
Can you upload the file (that page only may be enough).
Note: can't see the 2nd file without logging-in (which I won't do).
You can resize or save in .jpg o that it fits the 128KB limit here.
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HFZwQs ... sp=sharing

here is a screen recording of my screen. Its so hard to describe by typing only sorry. I'm using a mac computer.I checked the non printing view its off.I also tried uninstalling the open office and reinstalling it again but nothings changed. Is there a possible way that i could reset the app? i think it might be the only solution to my problem.

Thank you so much for all the help :)
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Hi just an update i clicked the button named direct cursor on the right side and its seems that was the problem. It was turned on which i didn't know about the option or button. My view seems to went back to normal no more blurry texts when i try to type and view my document. I have never watched a tutorial on open office huhu so i didn't know much about the app.

Everyone on the internet who helped me I would like to say thank you so much for all time and help!! :) God bless you all!! :)
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Weird. Seems to be a bug. No big deal I guess since the direct cursor mode is not very useful IMHO (I hadn't noticed the cursor change).
No such issue on my Xubuntu machine with LO 7.0.5 with direct cursor.
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No such problem on Xubuntu 20.04.2 on a 1920 x 1080 screen using direct cursor.
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