On LO Writer's bottom status bar, one can choose between: Single-page View Mutli-Page View Book View The exact behavior of Book View is not entirely trivial; and there is no extra tooltip, or introductory pop-up message, informing the user about it. So, it stands to reason it would be describe by the documentation. Well, * If we click F1 while hovering over the Book View button - we get to the documentation root. Specifically, I get: file:///opt/libreofficedev25.8/help/en-US/text/swriter/main0000.html?System=UNIX&DbPAR=WRITER&HID=SW_HID_EDIT_WIN#bm_id3147244 * If we search for "book mode", which is the term used in the Zoom & View Layout dialog, we find nothing. * If we search for "book view", there is such a term to be found, but when choosing it, we get this page: file:///opt/libreofficedev25.8/help/en-US/text/swriter/guide/print_preview.html?DbPAR=WRITER#bm_id3155179 Previewing a Page Before Printing --------------- Choose File - Print Preview. Use the zoom icons on the Print Preview bar to reduce or enlarge the view of the page. To print your document scaled down, set the print options on the Page Layout tab page of the File - Print dialog. Use the arrow keys or the arrow icons on the Print Preview bar to scroll That does not describe, nor mention, "book view". Seen with: Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 7fc7dc679d61f7d5313733005c244c87d25f32fd CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can confirm that the bug is present in Version: 24.2.7.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 420(Build:2) CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Ubuntu package version: 4:24.2.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.4 Calc: threaded ... as well as: Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 866538a4aeb30a598a6ede3d1763d898eb1920b0 CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Accessing the help file in both versions gives a suggested search return for "book view" under the topic of Writer, but the returned results match the text reported below for print preview.
I think, the help page is https://help.libreoffice.org/25.8/en-US/text/swriter/menu/pageLayoutMenu.html The text for "Book View" is currently, "Displays two pages per row, even numbered pages on the left and odd numbered pages on the right." It might need to be improved to consider other writing modes than "left-to-right".
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #2) > It might need to be improved to consider other writing modes than > "left-to-right". Let's leave the contents of the help to another bug, considering the discussion in bug 117231 and possibly other issues. It's enough for the purposes of this bug, I think, that F1 will reach that page, and that searching for "book view" and/or "book mode" will find it as well, as the top result.