LibreOffice missing option to use tabbed UI leaving the user without any means to get a tabbed UI. Opening Layout ribbon, there's a missing blank option above user prefrences. Nowhere to find the tabbed options.
More details please. Maybe a screen clip or two... Also what build of LibreOffice, where and how have you installed it? And what Windows build and architecture?
Created attachment 204090 [details] The missing line in the Layout menu
Sorry, I'll elaborate. I'm using LibreOffice 25.8.3.2 on Windows 11 Home 25H2. I updated LibreOffice via an updater called UniGetUI. Ever since I updated the file, I didn't have tabbed UI. I tried to find it in the menus, but I found nothing there. Actually, what I found was that one line in the Layout menu was missing. I tried downloading the file from LibreOffice to fix the software. I tried erasing LibreOffice and reinstalling, but it is gone. I'll add a picture of the missing line in the menu and you can see that the UI is not tabbed.
Created attachment 204091 [details] Not Tabbed UI
Suspect your LibreOffice user profile is corrupt. IFF you do not have a lot of custom content (i.e. styles, dictionaries, templates) in your profile--it is safe to simply delete your profile and allow it to rebuild from defaults for your locale. Delete on Windows (or simply rename) %APPDATA%\LibreOffice Then start LibreOffice to build a fresh profile. Does that resolve the UI issue of not seeing the MUFFIN Notebookbar "Tabbed UI"?
I had the same problem when upgrading from 24.2 to 25.8--if I remember correctly, the option existed before I upgraded, but disappeared after the update. Renaming the user profile (%APPDATA%/LibreOffice/4) and starting fresh does resolve the bug. (Update made using installer from The Document Foundation. OS: Windows 11 24H2.)
I did a bit of poking around in the user profile. It seems that deleting %APPDATA%/LibreOffice/4/user/config/soffice.cfg/modules/swriter/menubar/menubar.xml resolves the corruption :) (On Windows, if the OS prevents you from renaming or editing user profiles, open Task Manager and stop any LibreOffice processes running in the background.)
NEEDINFO to the OP, @Kfir does safe mode or clearing user profile resolve for your install?
@Yangtze L.'s solution of deleting the menues xml file did solve the problem. Thank you a lot!
Since it resolves by removing the old customized swriter menubar.xml config from profile and allowing it to rebuild from default share configs, guess this falls under Meta bug 107636. And, perhaps some revision to the menubar.xml? See also bug 57466 While have effective workaround of a user applied profile edit [1], or the more simple delete & rebuild from defaults of entire user profile. But I don't think there is sufficient information here to be actionable, i.e. it is not reproducible with any consistency. Think the UniGetUI facet is just noise. IMHO => INSUFFICIENTDATA @Mike, any comment at this point? =-ref-= [1] deletion of %AppData%\LibreOffice\4\user\config\soffice.cfg\modules\swriter\menubar\menubar.xml Note: by default the menubar.xml is not created in user profile--user (or some LO extension) has created the customized configuration.
Sorry, not resolved FIXED was looking at the INSUFFICIENTDATA tag.