# Missing menu items based on documentation

**URL:** <https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/missing-menu-items-based-on-documentation/4488>\
**Category:** Writer\
**Created:** [March 4, 2026, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/missing-menu-items-based-on-documentation/4488 "2026-03-04T11:02:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![plofknaapje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19b73/32.png) [@plofknaapje](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/plofknaapje)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2026, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/missing-menu-items-based-on-documentation/4488/1 "2026-03-04T11:02:20Z")

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At my company, we are investigating whether we can migrate our file management and office software away from Microsoft and Collabora Office is one option of a potential service provider. To test it, I have started to use Collabora Office instead of Office 365 in my daily work. Most of the time it works well enough, but on multiple occasions I was looking for a feature in the documentation, found it but was unable to locate the feature in the menu.

A recent example is making a bibliography. I am running version 25.04.9.0 and found the following documentation page: [Literatuurlijstdatabase](https://help.collaboraoffice.com/25.04/nl/text/shared/01/02250000.html?&DbPAR=WRITER&System=WIN)

According to this page, I shoud be able to find a menu item related to a bibliography under ‘Extra‘, but I get the following options (in Dutch):

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/collaboraonline/original/2X/4/4d40dcfce0229cc22a2c21e12ce87d306dcb295b.png)

What is going on here?

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**Author:** ![darshan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.collaboraonline.com/darshan/32/2230_2.png) [@darshan](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/darshan)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 9:51am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/missing-menu-items-based-on-documentation/4488/2 "2026-03-09T09:51:05Z")

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hi @plofknaapje

Oh there is bit confusion here…

This confusion usually happens because the **documentation you found refers to a feature that exists in LibreOffice Writer but is currently not available in Collabora Office builds**.

The page you found (`Literatuurlijstdatabase`) is from the **LibreOffice Help** documentation. Collabora Office is based on LibreOffice, but **not all features are exposed in the Collabora UI**.

In particular, the **Bibliography Database (Bibliografiedatabase)** feature that normally appears under:

`Extra (Tools) → Bibliografiedatabase`

is **not included or not exposed in Collabora Office Desktop builds** at the moment.

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**Author:** ![plofknaapje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19b73/32.png) [@plofknaapje](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/plofknaapje)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/missing-menu-items-based-on-documentation/4488/3 "2026-03-09T10:08:22Z")

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Thanks for your reply. Is there any way for me to tell that this is the case by looking at the documentation page?

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**Author:** ![darshan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.collaboraonline.com/darshan/32/2230_2.png) [@darshan](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/darshan)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 10:11am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/missing-menu-items-based-on-documentation/4488/4 "2026-03-09T10:11:00Z")

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there is no specific guide which will help you too say that this is included and this is not but yes we have sdk doc that you can explore [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://sdk.collaboraonline.com/docs/what_is_collabora_online.html)