From bug 161049 comment 8: If no "latest tab" is yet remembered, then users have to select a specific tab instead of having "Numbers" pre-selected already. You can see this by running in Safe Mode. The dialog opens blank, which is jarring.
This has started with https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/2199e603691a770ea6b67cbaba4ce1e0ce7b1919 tdf#99528 Use vertical tabs in 'Format cells' dialog Visible in bibisect repos with rm -rf instdir/user/ ; SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=qt5 instdir/program/scalc
Samuel Mehrbrodt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/edb96ed2d9270b601d8f23c0978f6bca05747ff1 tdf#162552 Revert "tdf#99528 Use vertical tabs in 'Format cells' dialog" It will be available in 25.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.