Change of Appearance of a Document

[SandraHolland]

When I open a document, either a new one or one I have already created, the page is now inset within a blank page. I must have altered something but I am not sure what. Please can anyone help?

[RoryOF]

Change the % factor in /View /Zoom.

[SandraHolland]

Unfortunately this didn't solve the problem. I have tried to upload a screen shot but the file size is too large.

[RoryOF]

Is this the way your document looks?

[SandraHolland]

It is similar, in that it is inset within another page but there is a much larger area around the edge of my document and it is white. I can still see the rulers.

[RoryOF]

Either put your screenshot on a filesharing site and post the URL here, or resample it in an image editor so it is smaller.

[SandraHolland]

I hope you can see this.

[RoryOF]

To get your page centred on the screen, there are three little icons on the Status bar of OO, at bottom right. Click on the leftmost icon, a single page icon. If these icons and the Status bar doesn't show turn it on with /View /Status bar. To turn the outer page from white to the usual grey, use /Tools /Options /OpenOffice : Appearance. In the general section of that (it is at the top) click on the "Application background" button and select "Automatic"; you can of course change this selection to any colour you like. Then use the /View /Zoom or the % box in bottom right of OO window to scale your page to whatever you desire. My preference is usually for "Page width", but you may prefer something different.

[SandraHolland]

Thank you for your help. I have tried this and it helps but I have to do this to every document and I am still not sure why it suddenly changed to this. I will manage with it and appreciate all the time you have spent on this.

[Hagar Delest]

You can try to reset your OpenOffice user profile to start from a fresh profile.

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