Learning LibreOffice – Tutorial 4: Draw Keyboard Shortcuts

For today, and continuing with another Tutorial in our current series of publications about LibreOffice, the most well-known and used Office Suite in the Linuxverse, called «Learning LibreOffice» and focused on the knowledge and learning of the «Keyboard shortcuts for each of the LibreOffice tools (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math, and Base), we offer you this fourth one about Draw.

And as in previous and successive installments, we are sure that these and other new Tutorials and Quick Guides on and in favor of our iconic LibreOffice office suite, will benefit many at any time. Especially those who are not yet familiar with it or may be just starting to use it for study and work purposes. And even those who have been using it for some time, but have not yet dedicated themselves to fully understanding it and exploiting its full potential, in order to be more effective and productive when using it, for example, for preparation and management of your Drawings and Images, in the purest Microsoft Visio style.

Learning LibreOffice – Tutorial 3: Impress Keyboard Shortcuts

But, before starting to know each of the current ones «LibreOffice Draw Keyboard Shortcuts, we recommend you explore the Previous and third post in our previous series on this same office suite, at the end of it:

If you're one of those who doesn't yet know and use LibreOffice—because you most likely use MS Office or one of the few proprietary, closed, and paid/free alternatives for Windows—it's important for you to know a few things. For example, LibreOffice is visually similar to MS Office. It's also highly compatible with MS Office's proprietary formats, namely DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPTS, PPTX, and other familiar formats from its other tools.

Learning LibreOffice – Tutorial 3: Keyboard Shortcuts for Impress

Learning LibreOffice: LibreOffice Draw Keyboard Shortcuts

Current LibreOffice Draw 25.2 Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are key combinations that allow you to perform specific actions in an operating system, application or program quickly, without having to use the mouse or navigate through menus. Their main purpose is to optimize productivity, reduce the time spent on repetitive tasks and facilitate access to frequently used functions.

Using the function keys

Then These are the keyboard shortcuts related to or associated with the existing Function Keys, which allow us to access useful features of this tool:

KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS	EFFECT
TAB	Result.
Shift + Tab	Select the next object.
Home	Select the first object.
Lesson finish date	Select the last object.
I	Cancel selection.
Arrows	Move the object in the direction of the arrows.
Arrow in the graphics	Move the selected segment of the pie chart in the direction of the arrow.
F2 in the Titles	Start text input mode.
F3	Open the group so that the components can be edited separately (in the legend and data series).
Ctrl + F3	Exit the group (in the legend and data series).
+ / -	Reduce or enlarge the graph.
+ / – In the graphs	Moves the selected segment to the center or outside of the pie chart.

And in case you want to have all of these at hand, including those used to edit Text, navigate through content, and move/select elements in the slide sorter and slide panel, you can get them in our downloadable format available on the LibreOffice Draw Keyboard Shortcuts: Download.

Finally, and in case you want to know more about the current and future «LibreOffice Draw Keyboard Shortcuts Remember that you can either locally from your “LibreOffice Draw” go to the top menu bar and explore the path “Tools / Customize / Keyboard”; or online (via the Internet) to go to the official LibreOffice help web section just click on the following link to go directly to the documentation on this topic. And additionally, you can explore the keyboard shortcuts related to the General use and those related to LibreOffice Accessibility.

LibreOffice Draw is a vector graphics drawing program, which also supports simple management of raster graphics (pixel). Therefore, it is ideal for quickly generating a wide range of variety of graphic images. And since it is fully integrated into the LibreOffice suite, it makes exchanging graphics between the components of it. Therefore, creating an image in Draw, and reusing it (copy/paste) in a Writer document or another of the LibreOffice apps, it is something really simple and easy to do.

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Summary

In short, we hope that this fourth tutorial in this series dedicated to learning more about «LibreOffice and its keyboard shortcuts» you like it and it is useful, both informatively and practically, to be able to Create and manage your necessary study or work files better and more quickly about our popular office suite. And especially this time about LibreOffice Draw, which is the office tool whose functions allow us to generate and edit new or existing ones vector and raster (pixel) graphic designs, MS Office Visio style.

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