LibreOffice Writer no longer show tabs when I choose to show invisibles, it is no longer an options in Preferences. If was available, and then it disappeared. Is there some way to bring this option back? In addition, when I double click to choose text, I can't choose spaces, paragraphs marks or tabs. I would like to be able to do so.
Writer: Tools -> Options -> Formatting Aids: Display of section. Select the check-boxes for the attributes you'd like to show. Toggled on and off with the "Non-Printing Characters" button on the Standard toolbar (or with <Ctrl>+F10) Adjust menus and shortcut as needed for OS X.
OP responded in PM I have already done what you suggested. I have upgraded to LibreOffice Version: 5.1.4.2. I have the “non-Printing Characters” button toggled on and then I have gone to Writer: Tools -> Options -> Formatting Aids. I permits me to show Paragraph end, soft hyphens, spaces, non-breaking spaces , breaks and math baseline aligment- BUT- it doesn’t give me the choice of displaying tabs! =-=-= Actually those are the controls for the Writer/Web Formatting Aids *not* the Writer Formatting Aids. Please have another look. =-ref-= http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/optformataidspage.ui http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sw/source/ui/config/optpage.cxx#1308
OP responded in PM Thank you. I found the Writer: Tools -> Options -> Formatting Aids in the new version of LibreOffice that I downloaded.