Bug 156768 - No page number wizard found in LibreOffice Writer 7.6
Summary: No page number wizard found in LibreOffice Writer 7.6
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 156743
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
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7.6.0.2 rc
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
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Reported: 2023-08-14 16:29 UTC by David García
Modified: 2023-08-15 17:05 UTC (History)
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Description David García 2023-08-14 16:29:04 UTC
Description:
According to the documentation, there should be a page number wizard in LibreOffice Writer 7.6, but it's not there.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Insert > Page Number: there is no page number wizard.
2. Go to Insert > Field > Page Number: there is no page number wizard.

Actual Results:
A page number is simply added to the page.

Expected Results:
The should be a page number wizard to choose between different settings according to the documentation, in particular the release notes for LibreOffice 7.6: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.6

In LibreOffice Help, they mention a dialog, which I can't find: https://help.libreoffice.org/7.6/en-US/text/swriter/guide/pagenumbers.html


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 7.6.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 69edd8b8ebc41d00b4de3915dc82f8f0fc3b6265
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22621; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-GB
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 1 Mike Kaganski 2023-08-14 17:14:54 UTC
My suspicion is that you have modified your menu, and that prevents it from showing changes introduced in later versions.

Please test using safe mode - if it works then, then you might want to reset your user profile (and loose your customizations). This would be tdf#156743 then.
Comment 2 David García 2023-08-14 19:51:22 UTC
Thank you! I had no idea this could happen.

Eventually, I went to Tools > Customize and then I clicked on "Reset". Unfortunately, I've lost my settings, but it's not a big deal.

Should I do the reset button every time there's a big update, like between 7.4 and 7.5, or between 7.5 and 7.6? I presume you don't have to do it between minor versions (like between 7.5.1 and 7.5.2, for example).

Thanks again!
Comment 3 Justin L 2023-08-14 23:49:08 UTC
(In reply to David García from comment #2)
> Should I do the reset button every time there's a big update, like between
> 7.4 and 7.5, or between 7.5 and 7.6? 
You should only do it when you want to lose all your custom menu settings :-) But yeah, normally there aren't many menu changes after x.y.0.

Hmm - I wonder if this reset does the same "bad" thing that notebookbar did (bug 148121) - copy the default overtop of a user profile? It would be better if it simply deleted the user profile file.

No, it looks good. It appears that cui/source/customize/cfg.cxx calls GetConfigManager()->removeSettings for MenuSaveInData::Reset. I confirmed that reset removed menubar.xml from instdir/user/config/soffice.cfg/modules/swriter/menubar.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 156743 ***
Comment 4 David García 2023-08-15 17:05:09 UTC
This has been marked as the duplicate of a bug, so I understand it's considered undesired behaviour. I wish it can be fixed because it's a nuisance to have to reset parts of LibreOffice in order to access to new features. I would have never known about the page number wizard if I hadn't read the release notes for version 7.6, which is something that most users don't do, I presume.

In any case, thanks again for all the help!