Shortcut Keys for LibreOffice Writer

Formula Bar

F2

Insert Fields

+F2

Complete AutoText

F3

Edit AutoText

+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+F5

Spelling

F7

Thesaurus

+F7

Extension mode

F8

Field shadings on / off

+F8

Additional Selection

Shift+F8

Block selection mode

Ctrl+Shift+F8

Update fields

F9

Show fields

+F9

Calculate Table

Shift+F9

Update Input Fields and Input Lists

+Shift+F9

Nonprinting Characters on/off

+F10

Styles window on/off

יצירת סגנון

Shift+F11

Sets focus to Apply Style box

+F11

Update Style

+Shift+F11

Toggle Ordered List

F12

Insert or edit Table

+F12

Toggle Unordered List

Shift+F12

Ordered / Unordered List off

+Shift+F12

Find and Replace

+H

Redo last action

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

+ Plus Key(+)

Run macro field

+multiplication sign * (only on number pad)

Pastes the content of the clipboard.

+Shift+V

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

+ double-click or + Shift + F10

Select All

+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+Arrow Left

Selecting to the right word by word

+Shift+Arrow Right

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

+Shift+Arrow Up

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

+Shift+Arrow Down

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

Move cursor to left

Arrow Left

Go to beginning of word

+Arrow Left

Move cursor to right

Arrow Right

Go to end of word

+Arrow Right

Move 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.

+Arrow Down

Go to beginning of line

Go to end of line

Go to start of document

Go to end of document

Screen page up

PageUp

Move down screen page

PageDown

Insert mode on/off

Insert

Soft hyphens; hyphenation set by you.

+Hyphen(-)

Non-breaking hyphen (is not used for hyphenation)

+Shift+minus sign (-)

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

+Shift+Space

Next suggestion with Automatic Word Completion

+Tab

Use previous suggestion with Automatic Word Completion

+Shift+Tab

Line break without paragraph change

Shift+Enter

Manual page break

+Enter

Column break in multicolumnar texts

+Shift+Enter

Switch cursor between text and header

+PageUp

Switch cursor between text and footer

+PageDown

Delete text to end of word

Delete text to beginning of word

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

+Backspace

Delete text to end of sentence

Delete text to beginning of sentence

+Shift+Backspace

Align Justify

+J

Double Underline

+D

Align Centered

+E

Superscript

+Shift+P

Align Left

+L

Align Right

+R

Subscript

+Shift+B

Apply Body Text paragraph style

+0 (zero)

Apply Heading 1 paragraph style

+1

Apply Heading 2 paragraph style

+2

Apply Heading 3 paragraph style

+3

Apply Heading 1 paragraph style

+4

Apply Heading 1 paragraph style

+5

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.

+Up Arrow

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

+Down Arrow

Move level down. With the cursor positioned in front of a paragraph with paragraph style “Heading X” (X = 1–9), the outline level is moved down one level. For list paragraphs, the list level is moved down one level.

Tab

Move level up. With the cursor positioned in front of a paragraph with paragraph style “Heading X” (X = 2–10), the outline level is moved up one level. For list paragraphs, the list level is moved up one level.

Shift+Tab

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.

+Tab

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

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.

+Tab

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

+Arrow Keys

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

+Shift+Arrow Keys

Like , but only the active cell is modified

+Arrow Keys

Like , but only the active cell is modified

+Shift+Arrow Keys

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+T

Delete contents

If nothing is selected, the contents of the next cell are deleted. If cells are selected, the whole line of the selection will be deleted. If all rows are selected completely or partially, the entire table is 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++Del

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

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.

+Arrow Keys

Resizes by moving lower right corner.

+Arrow Keys

Resizes by moving top left corner.

+Shift+Arrow Keys

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

+Tab