Operation Manual

To hide the Sidebar, click on the gray Hide button on the left. Click on the same button to show the
Sidebar again.
To undock the Sidebar and make it floating, and to dock a floating Sidebar, use the drop-down list
at the top of the tab bar (see Figure 9). From the same list you can choose which items to include
in the Sidebar.
Figure 8: Properties panel of Sidebar in Writer
Figure 9: Floating (undocking) or docking the Sidebar
Starting new documents
You can start a new, blank document in LibreOffice in several ways.
When LibreOffice is open but no document is open, the Start Center (Figure 2 on page 19) is
shown. Click one of the icons to open a new document of that type, or click the Templates icon to
start a new document using a template.
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