THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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Screenshots of Writer with contexts for text, bitmap, and shapes (from left to right).
If you discover that you don't use a particular panel very often, just click on its title and it is collapsed to a single line of text.collapse / expand panel
Different panels expanded or collapsed
Many property panels have been migrated from Symphony. Some panels come from the old Impress tool panel. Others show frequently used non-modal (ie non locking) dialogs.
examples for each
Panels from Symphony, the old Impress task pane, OpenOffice dialogs (from left to right).
The width of the sidebar can be adjusted. The controls adapt their size accordingly. If you need more space than it can be undocked — and possibly moved to a second display — or it can be reduced to a thin column of icons. A single click on one of them and the sidebar is back.
Different widths of the sidebar: maximum width, default width, too narrow to display content, collapsed to tab bar (from left to right).
Floating sidebar, can be moved to second screen regular sidebar, undocked, arrow when too narrow, icon tab bar
Of course, not all of OpenOffice's functionality can be represented by a couple of controls in the sidebar. If you need an advanced function then just click on the "more options" button in a panel title bar to open a dialog with many more options and properties.
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