Copyright

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Contributors

Ron Faile Jr.

Feedback

Please direct any comments or suggestions about this document to: documentation@libreoffice.org

Acknowledgments

This appendix is based on Appendix A of Getting Started with OpenOffice.org. The contributors to that appendix are:

Peter Hillier-Brook
Jean Hollis Weber
Alexander Noël Dunne

Publication date and software version

Published 30 December 2010. Based on LibreOffice 3.3.

Note for Mac users

Some keystrokes and menu items are different on a Mac from those used in Windows and Linux. The table below gives some common substitutions for the instructions in this chapter. For a more detailed list, see the application Help.

Windows/Linux	Mac equivalent	Effect
Tools → Options menu selection	Libreoffice → Preferences	Access setup options
Right-click	Control+click	Opens a context menu
Ctrl (Control)	z (Command)	Used with other keys
F5	Shift+z+F5	Opens the Navigator
F11	z+T	Opens the Styles & Formatting window

Contents

Note for Mac users 2

Introduction 4

Tip for Macintosh users 4

General keyboard shortcuts 5

Opening menus and menu items 5

Controlling dialogs 5

Getting help 5

Managing documents 6

Navigating across LibreOffice 6

Editing 6

Stopping macros 7

Defining keyboard shortcuts 7

Shortcut Keys	Result
Alt+<?>	Opens a menu where <?> is the underlined character of the menu you want to open. For example, Alt+T opens the menu Tools.
Alt+<?>+<>*	Opens a menu item where <?> is the underlined character of the menu you want to open and <> is the item within that menu. For example, Alt+T+G* opens the Gallery menu item in the menu Tools.
Esc	Closes an open menu.

Shortcut Keys	Result
Enter	Activates selected button. In most cases where no button is selected, Enter is equivalent to clicking OK.
Esc	Closes dialog without saving any changes made while it was open. In most cases, Esc is equivalent to clicking Cancel. When an open drop-down list is selected, Esc closes the list.
Spacebar	Checks an empty checkbox. Clears a checked checkbox.
Up, down arrow keys	Moves focus up and down a list. Increases or decreases value of a variable. Moves focus vertically within a section of dialog.
Left, right arrow keys	Moves focus horizontally within a section of a dialog.
Tab	Advances focus to the next section or element of a dialog.
Shift+Tab	Returns focus to the previous section or element in a dialog.
Alt+Down Arrow	Shows items in a drop-down list.

Shortcut Keys	Result
F1	Opens the LibreOffice Help dialog. In LibreOffice Help: jumps to the first help page of the selected tab.
Shift+F1	Turns the cursor into the What’s This? question mark. Shows the tip for an item underneath the cursor.
Shift+F2	Shows tip for a selected item.
Esc	In LibreOffice Help: goes up one level.

Shortcut Keys	Result
Ctrl+F4 or Alt+F4	Closes the current document. Closes LibreOffice when the last open document is closed.
Ctrl+O	Launches the Open dialog to open a document.
Ctrl+S	Saves the current document. If you are working on a previously unsaved file, the shortcut launches the Save As dialog.
Ctrl+N	Creates a new document.
Shift+Ctrl+N	Opens the Templates and Documents dialog.
Ctrl+P	Opens the Print dialog to print the document.
Ctrl+Q	Closes the application.
Del	In the Save and Open dialogs, deletes the selected files or folders. Items can be retrieved from the Recycle Bin (Trash).
Shift+Del	In the Save and Open dialogs, deletes the selected files or folders. Items are permanently deleted: they can not be retrieved from the Recycle Bin.
Backspace	In the Save and Open dialogs, shows contents of the current directory's parent folder.

Shortcut Keys	Result
F6	Selects next subwindow (for example: Menu bar, Standard toolbar, document view, and so on).
Shift+F6	Selects previous subwindow.
F10	Selects the first menu, typically the File menu.
Shift+F10	Opens the context menu.

Shortcut Keys	Result
Ctrl+X	Cuts selected items.
Ctrl+C	Copies selected items.
Ctrl+V	Pastes copied or cut items from the clipboard.
Ctrl+Shift+V	Opens the Paste Special dialog.
Ctrl+A	Selects all.
Ctrl+Z	Undoes last action.
Ctrl+Y	Redoes last action.
Ctrl+Shift+Y	Repeats last command.
Ctrl+F	Opens the Find & Replace dialog.
Ctrl+Shift+F	Searches for the last entered search term.
Ctrl+Shift+R	Refreshes (redraws) the document view.
Ctrl+Shift+I	Shows or hides the cursor in read-only text.

Shortcut Keys	Result
Shift+Ctrl+Q	Stops a running macro.