LibreOffice Writer

General

Insert mode on/off

Insert

All hotkeys for LibreOffice Writer

Moving and resizing frames, graphics and objects
If a text frame is selected: positions the cursor to the end of the text in the text 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

Function keys
Insert Fields

Ctrl + F2

Function keys
Complete AutoText

F3

Function keys
Edit AutoText

Ctrl + F3

Function keys
Open Data Source View

F4

Function keys
Select next frame

↑   Shift + F4

Function keys
Navigator on/off

F5

Function keys
Navigator on, go to page number

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + F5

Function keys
Spellcheck

F7

Function keys
Thesaurus

Ctrl + F7

Function keys
Extension mode

F8

Function keys
Field shadings on / off

Ctrl + F8

Function keys
Additional selection mode

↑   Shift + F8

Function keys
Block selection mode

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + F8

Function keys
Update fields

F9

Function keys
Show fields

Ctrl + F9

Function keys
Calculate Table

↑   Shift + F9

Function keys
Update Input Fields and Input Lists

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + F9

Function keys
Nonprinting Characters on/off

Ctrl + F10

Function keys
Styles and Formatting window on/off

F11

Function keys
Create Style

↑   Shift + F11

Function keys
Sets focus to Apply Style box

Ctrl + F11

Function keys
Update Style

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + F11

Function keys
Numbering on

F12

Function keys
Insert or edit Table

Ctrl + F12

Function keys
Bullets on

↑   Shift + F12

Function keys
Numbering / Bullets off

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + F12

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

Ctrl + A

General
Justify

Ctrl + J

General
Double Underline

Ctrl + D

General
Centered

Ctrl + E

General
Find and Replace

Ctrl + H

General
Superscript

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + P

General
Align Left

Ctrl + L

General
Align Right

Ctrl + R

General
Subscript

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + B

General
Redo last action

Ctrl + Y

General
Apply Text Body paragraph style

Ctrl + 0

General
Apply Heading 1 paragraph style

Ctrl + 1

General
Apply Heading 2 paragraph style

Ctrl + 2

General
Apply Heading 3 paragraph style

Ctrl + 3

General
Apply Heading 4 paragraph style

Ctrl + 4

General
Apply Heading 5 paragraph style

Ctrl + 5

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

Ctrl + +

General
Soft hyphens; hyphenation set by you.

Ctrl + -

General
Non-breaking hyphen (is not used for hyphenation)

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + -

General
Run macro field

Ctrl + Num *

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

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + Space

General
Line break without paragraph change

↑   Shift + ⤶ Enter

General
Manual page break

Ctrl + ⤶ Enter

General
Column break in multicolumnar texts

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + ⤶ Enter

General
Inserting a new paragraph directly before or after a section, or before a table.

Alt + ⤶ Enter

General
Move cursor to left

General
Move cursor with selection to the left

↑   Shift +

General
Go to beginning of word

Ctrl +

General
Selecting to the left word by word

Ctrl + ↑   Shift +

General
Move cursor to right

General
Move cursor with selection to the right

↑   Shift +

General
Go to start of next word

Ctrl +

General
Selecting to the right word by word

Ctrl + ↑   Shift +

General
Move cursor up one line

General
Selecting lines in an upwards direction

↑   Shift +

General
Move cursor to beginning of the previous paragraph

Ctrl +

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

Ctrl + ↑   Shift +

General
Move cursor down one line

General
Selecting lines in a downward direction

↑   Shift +

General
Move cursor to beginning of next paragraph.

Ctrl +

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

Ctrl + ↑   Shift +

General
Go to beginning of line

Home

General
Go and select to the beginning of a line

Home + ↑   Shift

General
Go to end of line

End

General
Go and select to end of line

End + ↑   Shift

Tables
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

Ctrl + Home

General
Go and select text to start of document

Ctrl + Home + ↑   Shift

Tables
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

Ctrl + End

General
Go and select text to end of document

Ctrl + End + ↑   Shift

General
Switch cursor between text and header

Ctrl + Page Up

General
Switch cursor between text and footer

Ctrl + Page Down

General
Insert mode on/off

Insert

General
Screen page up

Page Up

General
Move up screen page with selection

Shift + Page Up

General
Move down screen page

Page Down

General
Move down screen page with selection

Shift + Page Down

General
Delete text to end of word

Ctrl + Del

General
(in a list) Delete an empty paragraph in front of the current paragraph

Ctrl + ⬅ Backspace

General
Delete text to end of sentence

Ctrl + Del + ↑   Shift

General
Delete text to beginning of sentence

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + ⬅ Backspace

Moving and resizing frames, graphics and objects
Selects the anchor of an object (in Edit Points mode)

Ctrl + ⭾ Tab

General
Use previous suggestion with Automatic Word Completion

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + ⭾ Tab

General
Paste the contents of the clipboard as unformatted text.

Ctrl + Alt + ↑   Shift + V

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

Ctrl + Mouse double click

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

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + F10

Paragraphs and Heading Levels
Move the active paragraph or selected paragraphs up one paragraph

Ctrl + Alt +

Paragraphs and Heading Levels
Move the active paragraph or selected paragraphs down one paragraph

Ctrl + Alt +

Paragraphs and Heading Levels
The heading in format "Heading X" (X = 1-9) is moved down one level in the outline

⭾ Tab

Paragraphs and Heading Levels
The heading in format "Heading X" (X = 2-10) is moved up one level in the outline

↑   Shift + ⭾ Tab

Tables
Increases/decreases the size of the column/row on the right/bottom cell edge

Alt + Keys

Tables
Increase/decrease the size of the column/row on the left/top cell edge

Alt + ↑   Shift + ← ↑ → ↓

Moving and resizing frames, graphics and objects
Resizes by moving lower right corner

Alt + Ctrl + ← ↑ → ↓

Tables
Like Alt, but only the active cell is modified

Ctrl + Alt + ↑   Shift + ← ↑ → ↓

Tables
3 seconds in Insert mode, Arrow Key inserts row/column, Ctrl + Arrow Key inserts cell

Alt + Insert

Tables
3 seconds in Delete mode, Arrow key deletes row/column, Ctrl + Arrow key merges cell with neighboring cell

Alt + Del

Tables
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

Ctrl + ↑   Shift + T

Tables
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 + Ctrl + Del

Moving and resizing frames, graphics and objects
(when text frame is selected) Clears the cursor from the text frame

Esc

Moving and resizing frames, graphics and objects
Move object

Alt + ← ↑ → ↓

Moving and resizing frames, graphics and objects
Resizes by moving top left corner

Alt + Ctrl + ↑   Shift + ← ↑ → ↓

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