Navigation icons missing from Base Table View

[GowerMick]

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but a search found nothing. Even after updating to LO5.2.5.1, this problem (bug) is still there:

When initially opening and viewing a base table, the record navigation icons are missing from status line.
They only appear when I change size of table. Any thoughts

[UnklDonald418]

I'm not sure I understand your question but ...

When initially opening and viewing a base table

If you are editing data directly in the table then the solution is to create a data entry form where you have some options with regard to the navigation controls. Plus you have many more display options on a form than working directly in a table.

[GowerMick]

Sorry, I disagree, the solution is to get the table view to show properly.
The table is designed to be used that way, hence the navigations buttons, so why are they not visible initially?

[UnklDonald418]

It is a common beginners error to try to use the table view for data entry into a Base table.
It is a simple fact that forms allow far more formatting options for data display than the table view.

[GowerMick]

It is not the formatting that I'm concerned about. When I need a form I create one, and write the software it may need, but I don't so I didn't!
i just want to browse the data, as table view is supposedly designed for! Missing the navigation buttons is a bug! No excuses, they should be there as they were intended!

[UnklDonald418]

This is a help forum, not a customer service site. We are all volunteers who offer advice on how you might solve a problem, or work around a bug.
Experienced Base users understand the limitations of the table view and generally opt for forms. Forms do have navigation control options that aren't available in the table view.
Base is certainly not bug free. You mentioned that you are using Libre Office, they have a bug reporting mechanism
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/feedback/
Look through their list of bug reports to see if yours has already been posted or is something new.

[GowerMick]

Yes I do understand that forum members are volunteers and am grateful for your comments. However, my original post did say I had a workround, and was simply asking if anyone had noticed the problem and if they had suggestions for what was happening. If I sounded tetchy I apologise, but was getting frustrated by your insistence that forms were the only way to go. I'm sure even you must have opened a table at some point, and so to have the navigation icons missing is simply wrong!

NB I have since found out that there is a bug report on this, and the problem seems to have been around for about 6-12 months!

[GowerMick]

Quick update.

Just updated to LO5.2.6.2. and bug is still there!