Shortcut Keys for LibreOffice Writer

You can use shortcut keys to quickly perform common tasks in LibreOffice. This section lists the default shortcut keys for LibreOffice Writer.

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Some of the shortcut keys may be assigned to your desktop system. Keys that are assigned to the desktop system are not available to LibreOffice. Try to assign different keys either for LibreOffice, in Tools - Customize - Keyboard, or in your desktop system.


You can also use the general shortcut keys in LibreOffice.

Function Keys for LibreOffice Writer

Effect

Shortcut keys

Traka formule

F2

Ubaci polja

+F

Complete AutoText

F3

Izmijeni AutoTekst

+F3

Select next frame

Shift+F4

Open Data Source View

Ctrl+Shift+F4

Navigator on/off

F5

Moves the cursor to the position that it had when the document was last saved before it was last closed.

Shift+F5

Navigator on, go to page number

+Shift+F

Spelling

F7

Rječnik sinonima

+F

Extension mode

F8

Field shadings on / off

+F

Additional selection mode

Shift+F8

Block selection mode

Ctrl+Shift+F8

Update fields

F9

Show fields

+F

Izračunaj tabelu

Shift+F9

Update Input Fields and Input Lists

+Shift+F

Nonprinting Characters on/off

+F

Styles window on/off

+A

Ažuriraj stil

Shift+F11

Sets focus to Apply Style box

+F

Ažuriraj stil

+Shift+F

Toggle Ordered List

F12

Insert or edit Table

+F

Toggle Unordered List

Shift+F12

Ordered / Unordered List off

+Shift+F


Advanced editing

Effect

Shortcut keys

Find and Replace

+A

Redo last action

+Y

Calculates the selected text and copies the result to the clipboard.

+Home

Run macro field

+1 (ne na numeričkoj tastaturi)

Paste the contents of the clipboard as unformatted text.

+Shift+V

Use this combination to quickly dock or undock the Navigator, Styles window, or other windows

+ double-click or + Shift + F10


Shortcut keys for text selection

Effect

Shortcut keys

Odaberi sve

+A

Move cursor with selection to the left

Shift+Arrow Left

Move cursor with selection to the right

Shift+Arrow Right

Selecting to the left word by word

+Shift+Strelica

Selecting to the right word by word

+Shift+Strelica

Select to beginning of paragraph. Next keystroke extends selection to beginning of previous paragraph

+Shift+Strelica

Select to end of paragraph. Next keystroke extends selection to end of next paragraph

+Shift+Strelica

Selecting lines in a downward direction

Shift+Arrow Down

Selecting lines in an upwards direction

Shift+Arrow Up

Go and select to the beginning of a line

Go and select text to end of document

Go and select to end of line

Go and select text to start of document

Move down screen page with selection

Shift+PageDown

Move up screen page with selection

Shift+PageUp


Shortcut keys for cursor movement

Effect

Shortcut keys

Move cursor to left

Arrow Left

Go to beginning of word

+Shift+Strelica

Move cursor to right

Arrow Right

Go to start of next word

+Shift+Strelica

Move cursor up one line

Arrow Up

Move cursor to beginning of paragraph. Next keystroke moves cursor to beginning of previous paragraph

Ctrl+Arrow Up

Move cursor down one line

Arrow Down

Move cursor to beginning of next paragraph.

+Shift+Strelica

Go to beginning of line

+A

Go to end of line

+A

Go to start of document

+Y

Go to end of document

+Y

Screen page up

PageUp

Move down screen page

PageDown


Shortcut keys for inserting text

Effect

Shortcut keys

Insert mode on/off

Ubaci

Soft hyphens; hyphenation set by you.

+Home

Non-breaking hyphen (is not used for hyphenation)

+Shift+V

Non-breaking spaces. Non-breaking spaces are not used for hyphenation and are not expanded if the text is justified.

+Shift+V

Next suggestion with Automatic Word Completion

+Tabulator

Use previous suggestion with Automatic Word Completion

+Shift+V


Shortcut for breaks

Effect

Shortcut keys

Line break without paragraph change

Shift+Enter

Manual page break

+Enter

Column break in multicolumnar texts

+Shift+Insert

Switch cursor between text and header

+PgUp

Switch cursor between text and footer

+PgDn


Shortcut keys for deleting text

Effect

Shortcut keys

Delete text to end of word

+Y

Delete text to beginning of word

In a list: delete an empty paragraph in front of the current paragraph

+Shift+V

Delete text to end of sentence

Delete text to beginning of sentence

+Shift+V


Formatting

Effect

Shortcut keys

Align Justify

+Q

Duplo podcrtano

+D

Align Centered

+End

Eksponent

+Shift+V

Poravnaj lijevo

+Q

Poravnaj desno

+R

Indeks

+Shift+V

Apply Body Text paragraph style

+Enter

Apply Heading 1 paragraph style

+Q

Apply Heading 2 paragraph style

+Q

Apply Heading 3 paragraph style

+F3

Apply Heading 4 paragraph style

+Q

Apply Heading 5 paragraph style

+Q


Shortcut Keys for Paragraphs, List Paragraphs, Outline Levels and List Levels

Effect

Shortcut keys

Paragraph in list. Inserts a new paragraph within a list without a bullet or number, while preserving the list’s paragraph formatting. To resume numbering or bulleting, press Enter after adding content to the new paragraph. This shortcut does not work if the cursor is at the begin of a list paragraph.

+ Enter

Move up. Move the active paragraph or selected paragraphs up one paragraph.

+Strelica Gore

Move down. Move the active paragraph or selected paragraphs down one paragraph.

+Strelica Dolje

Move level down. With the cursor positioned in front of a paragraph with paragraph style ā€œHeading Xā€ (X = 1–9), the outline level is moved down one level. For list paragraphs, the list level is moved down one level.

Tabulator

Move level up. With the cursor positioned in front of a paragraph with paragraph style ā€œHeading Xā€ (X = 2–10), the outline level is moved up one level. For list paragraphs, the list level is moved up one level.

Shift+Tabulator

Increase alignment. With the cursor placed anywhere in a heading or list paragraph: Increases the alignment for all headings. For list paragraphs, increases the alignment for all paragraphs in the same list.

+Tabulator

Decrease alignment. With the cursor placed anywhere in a heading or list paragraph: Decreases the alignment for all headings. For list paragraphs, decreases the alignment for all paragraphs in the same list.

+Shift+Tab


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To insert a tab at the beginning of a heading or list paragraph, use the Numbering followed by option in the Position tab in the Heading Numbering or Bullets and Numbering dialog. Alternatively, a tab can be copied and then pasted at the beginning.


Shortcut Keys for Tables in LibreOffice Writer

Effect

Shortcut keys

Insert paragraph. Inserts a new paragraph directly before or after table. The cursor must be placed at the first character of the first cell or the last character of the last cell.

+ Enter

Selects all. If the active cell is empty: selects the whole table. Otherwise: selects the contents of the active cell. Pressing again selects the entire table.

+A

Go to beginning.If the active cell is empty: goes to the beginning of the table. Otherwise: first press goes to beginning of the active cell, second press goes to beginning of the current table, third press goes to beginning of document.

+Home

Go to end. If the active cell is empty: goes to the end of the table. Otherwise: first press goes to the end of the active cell, second press goes to the end of the current table, third press goes to the end of the document.

+End

Inserts a tab stop (only in tables). Depending on the Window Manager in use, +Tab may be used instead.

+Tabulator

Size of column/row at the end. Increases/decreases the size of the column/row on the right/bottom cell edge

+Shift+Strelica

Size of column/row at the beginning. Increase/decrease the size of the column/row on the left/top cell edge

+Shift+Strelica

+ Strelica Dolje

+tipka strelice

+ Strelica Dolje

+Shift+Strelica

Cell protection. Removes cell protection from all selected tables. If no table is selected, then cell protection is removed from all of the tables in the document.

+Shift+V

Delete contents

If no whole cell is selected, the text from the cursor to the end of the current sentence is deleted. If the cursor is at the end of a cell, and no whole cell is selected, the contents of the next cell are deleted.

If no whole cell is selected and the cursor is at the end of the table, the paragraph following the table will be deleted, unless it is the last paragraph in the document.

If one or more cells are selected, the whole rows containing the selection will be deleted. If all rows are selected completely or partially, the entire table will be deleted.

Shift++N


Shortcut Keys for Sections

Effect

Shortcut keys

Insert paragraph. Inserts a new paragraph directly before or after the section. The cursor must be placed at the first character of the section or the last character of the section.

+ Enter


Shortcut Keys for Moving and Resizing Frames, Graphics and Objects

Efekat

Tipke za kratice

Cursor is inside a frame and no text is selected: Escape selects the frame.

Frame is selected: Escape clears the cursor from the frame.

Esc

If a frame is selected: positions the cursor to the end of the text in the frame. If you press any key that produces a character on screen, and the document is in edit mode, the character is appended to the text.

F2 or Enter or any key that produces a character on screen

Move object.

+Shift+Strelica

Resizes by moving lower right corner.

+tipka strelice

Resizes by moving top left corner.

+Shift+Strelica

Selects the anchor of an object (in Edit Points mode).

+Tabulator


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