Learning LibreOffice – Tutorial 1: Keyboard shortcuts for Writer
A little over 2 years ago (December, 2022), we completed a series of posts about LibreOffice, the most well-known and used office suite in the Linuxverse. It was titled “Getting to know LibreOffice” and it was focused on making known, beyond its frequent releases and novelties, what it was like inside at that current time, that is, to show and explain its elements and work areas. Therefore, and in honor of our greatest suite for the preparation and management of study and work documents, and thinking of those who do not yet know it or may be starting to use it for study and work issues, today we will start another one that is a little more practical. Which, we have called «Learning LibreOffice», and where we will address the issue of the keyboard shortcuts for each of its tools: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base.
And if you are one of those who still do not know and use LibreOffice, because, most likely, you use MS Office or another of the few proprietary, closed and paid/free alternatives to Windows, it is important that you know certain things. For example, that LibreOffice is visually similar to MS Office. And also, Highly compatible with proprietary MS Office formats, that is, Doc, Docx, Xls, Xlsx, Ppt, Ppptx, and others known from its other tools. So, with that in mind, we invite you to continue reading this post and tutorial on the LibreOffice Writer Keyboard Shortcuts.
LibreOffice Office Suite: A little bit of everything to learn more about it
But, before starting to know each of the current ones «LibreOffice Writer Keyboard Shortcuts», we recommend you explore the Previous and first post of our previous series on this same office suite, at the end of it:
LibreOffice is a powerful office suite; its clean interface and powerful tools allow you to unleash your creativity and boost your productivity. In addition, it includes several applications that make it one of the most powerful and complete free and open office suites on the market. It includes Writer, the word processor; Calc, the spreadsheet; Impress, the presentation editor; Draw, a drawing and flowchart application; Base, a database manager; and Math, an application for editing mathematical formulas.
Learning LibreOffice: LibreOffice Writer Keyboard Shortcuts
Current LibreOffice Writer 25.2 Keyboard Shortcuts
You probably already have an idea of what keyboard shortcuts are for an operating system or application. But, to make it clear before getting to know the ones for LibreOffice Writer, it is worth noting for those who might not know, that this term refers to:
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.
Current listing
To know the current and future «LibreOffice Writer Keyboard Shortcuts» We can easily choose between 2 ways, which are:
- Through the installed application: To do this, we must open our LibreOffice Writer application and go to its top menu bar and explore the following path: Tools / Customize / Keyboard.
- Through its official help web section: For which, we must click on the following link to go directly to said documentation.
But here at From Linux we offer you the following Cheat Sheet on the current LibreOffice Writer Keyboard Shortcuts, the main ones in text format, and all existing ones in downloadable and printable format in Spanish so you can download, take them with you and use them wherever you want, whether on a computer, smartphone or tablet:
| Key combination | Effect |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + E | Select all |
| Ctrl + J | Justified |
| Ctrl + D | Double underline |
| Ctrl + T | Centered |
| Ctrl + H | Search and Replace |
| Ctrl + Shift + P | Superscript |
| Ctrl + L | Align to the left |
| Ctrl + R | To align to the right |
| Ctrl + Shift + B | Subscript |
| Ctrl + Y | Restore last action |
| Ctrl+0 (zero) | Apply paragraph style to body text |
| Ctrl + 1 | Apply the Heading 1 paragraph style |
| Ctrl + 2 | Apply the Heading 2 paragraph style |
| Ctrl + 3 | Apply the Heading 3 paragraph style |
| Ctrl + 4 | Apply the Heading 4 paragraph style |
| Ctrl + 5 | Apply the Heading 5 paragraph style |
| Ctrl+plus key (+) | Calculates the selected text and copies the result to the clipboard. |
| Ctrl+hyphen (-) | Discretionary hyphens; hyphenation defined by you. |
| Ctrl+Shift+Hyphen (-) | Indivisible hyphen (not used for syllabification) |
| Ctrl+ multiplication sign * | Run macro field |
| Ctrl+Shift+Space | Indivisible spaces. These spaces are not used for syllabification and are not expanded if the text is justified. |
| Shift + Intro | Line break without paragraph change |
| Ctrl + Enter | Manual page break |
| Ctrl+Shift+Enter | Column break in multi-column texts |
| Alt + Enter | Inserts a new, unnumbered paragraph into a list. It doesn't work when the cursor is at the end of the list. |
| Alt + Enter | Insert a new paragraph directly before or after a section or table. For sections, the cursor should be positioned on the first or last character. For tables, the cursor should be positioned on the first character of the first cell or the last character of the last cell. |
| ← | Move cursor left |
| Shift+← | Move the cursor to the left by selecting the text |
| Ctrl+← | Go to the beginning of the word |
| Ctrl+Shift+← | Select word by word to the left |
| → | Move cursor right |
| Shift+→ | Move the cursor to the right by selecting the text |
| Ctrl+→ | Go to the beginning of the next word |
| Ctrl+Shift+→ | Select word by word to the right |
| ↑ | Move the cursor one line up |
| Shift+↑ | Select rows up |
| Ctrl+↑ | Move cursor to beginning of paragraph. Pressing again moves cursor to beginning of previous paragraph |
| Ctrl+Shift+↑ | Select to the beginning of the paragraph. The next keystroke extends the selection to the beginning of the previous paragraph. |
| ↓ | Move the cursor down one line |
| Shift+↓ | Select rows down |
| Ctrl+↓ | Move cursor to the beginning of the next paragraph. |
| Ctrl+Shift+↓ | Select to the end of the paragraph. The next key press extends the selection to the end of the next paragraph. |
| Home | Go to the beginning of the line |
| Shift+Home | Go and select to the beginning of a line |
| Lesson finish date | Go to the end of the line |
| Shift+End | Go and select to the end of the line |
| Ctrl + Home | Go to the beginning of the document |
| Ctrl+Shift+Home | Go to the beginning of the document with selection |
| Ctrl + End | Go to the end of the document |
| Ctrl+Shift+End | Go to the end of the document with selection |
| Ctrl+Page Up | Move the cursor between the text and the header |
| Ctrl+Page Down | Move the cursor between the text and the footer |
| in the | Activate or deactivate insert mode |
| Pág. | Screen page up |
| Shift+Page Up | Screen page up with selection |
| Page Av. | Screen page down |
| Shift+Page Down | Screen page down with selection |
| Ctrl + Del | Delete the text to the end of the word |
| Ctrl + Backspace | Deletes text up to the beginning of the word In a list: delete an empty paragraph before the current paragraph. |
| Ctrl + Shift + Del | Delete the text until the end of the sentence |
| Ctrl+Shift+Backspace | Delete the text up to the beginning of the sentence |
| Ctrl + Tab | Next suggestion for automatic word building |
| Ctrl+Shift+Tab | Use the above tip with automatic word building |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V | Pastes the contents of the clipboard as plain text. |
| Ctrl+double click, or Ctrl+Shift+F10 | With this combination you can quickly dock and undock multiple windows, including Browser and Styles. |
Download: Downloadable and printable format in Spanish.
LibreOffice Writer is a Feature-rich tool for generating letters, books, reports, newsletters, brochures and other documents. A text application, where you can also insert graphics and objects from other LibreOffice tools and others, native to GNU/Linux.. Also, it has the ability to export files to HTML, XHTML, XML, PDF and EPUB formats; or save them in many formats, including several versions of Microsoft Word files. And among many other things, You can connect to the email client of your GNU/Linux Operating System.
Summary
In summary, we hope that this first 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 study or work files better and faster about such a popular office suite. And especially on this occasion about LibreOffice Writer, Which is the Office tool whose functions allow us and facilitate the generation and modification of letters, books, reports, and even newsletters and brochures. and other frequently used documents.
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