If you have to hard switch your computer while a blank document called Untitled 1 is open and you restore that document after rebooting you cannot create a new document in writer unless you close Untitled 1 or save it as something else.
David Tardon committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-0": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=75118d2f9ebdf96250d3a4c78b695085c3527e4e&g=libreoffice-4-0 fdo#56267, fdo#56980 propagate shape change to subclasses It will be available in LibreOffice 4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
David Tardon committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=7fec8dfcaca4efc92516f9af51a3157f1a11ccd7 fdo#56267, fdo#56980 propagate shape change to subclasses The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
wrong bug number in the commit message, sorry for the noise...
I cannot confirm this issue - Version: 4.2.0.0.alpha0+Build ID: b0a1666f756aa5f5315366eca9d7d02ddd55d2b Date: Tue May 28 08:51:01 2013 +0300 Platform: Bodhi Linux 2.2 x64 Marking as WFM @elighcs - if you still have this issue with version 4 or the upcoming release of 4.1 - please set the bug to UNCONFIRMED and let us know what version. Thanks!