Bug 123843 - Special Characters menu not available
Summary: Special Characters menu not available
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
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6.2.0.3 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Blocks: Special-Character
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Reported: 2019-03-04 16:02 UTC by Steve O'Gorman
Modified: 2019-05-02 12:49 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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2019-03-04 16:02 UTC, Steve O'Gorman 		Details
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Description Steve O'Gorman 2019-03-04 16:02:01 UTC 
Created attachment 149717 [details]
Screenshot of Special Character menu

Fully updated Ubuntu 18.10, Toshiba Satellite laptop.
I installed 6.2.0.3 this morning. All well and good until I needed a special sort for my text. The Special Characters button opens a pop-up dialog on screen, with 'favourite characters' and a button to access the full list. (Screenshot attached.) Now running 6.1 until the problem can be resolved. This has cost me £50 in lost work today.
Comment 1 Roman Kuznetsov 2019-03-06 13:05:04 UTC 
Steve, please add info from dialog Help->About LibreOffice
Comment 2 Steve O'Gorman 2019-03-06 13:07:06 UTC 
I would, but I had to uninstall it so I could make up for lost work on Monday. I'm now running v.6.1. Sorry.
Comment 3 Roman Kuznetsov 2019-03-06 13:17:07 UTC 
(In reply to Steve O'Gorman from comment #2)
> I would, but I had to uninstall it so I could make up for lost work on
> Monday. I'm now running v.6.1. Sorry.

Ok, so please say us how you installed version 6.2? From PPA or you used deb-packages from site of LibreOffice?
Comment 4 Steve O'Gorman 2019-03-06 13:19:22 UTC 
I installed 6.2.0.3 via snap in the Ubuntu terminal.
Comment 5 Roman Kuznetsov 2019-03-06 13:29:20 UTC 
(In reply to Steve O'Gorman from comment #4)
> I installed 6.2.0.3 via snap in the Ubuntu terminal.

Thank you for info. 
Can you please try install LO 6.2 from deb-packages from libreoffice site? 
It will be install parallel with 6.1 version.
And then will try retest your problem
Comment 6 Steve O'Gorman 2019-03-06 13:36:15 UTC 
I'll wait until I've finished the two books I've got on the go before I try altering my configuration again. I really can't take the chances of anything going wrong. And I can't spare the time to reinstall it at the moment.
Comment 7 Dieter 2019-05-01 12:03:56 UTC 
(In reply to Steve O'Gorman from comment #6)
> I'll wait until I've finished the two books I've got on the go before I try
> altering my configuration again. I really can't take the chances of anything
> going wrong. And I can't spare the time to reinstall it at the moment.

I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' if the bug is still present in the latest version. Change to RESOLVED WORKSFORME, if the problem went away.
Comment 8 Steve O'Gorman 2019-05-02 11:26:36 UTC 
Worksforme