Shortcut keys
From Apache OpenOffice Wiki
- Introduction
- Theory
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- Text Body
- Paragraph styles overview
- Reusing styles
- Default Page Formatting
- Title Page
- Papers without a Title Page
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- Roman Page Numbering
- Group Work
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- Extra Long Web Adresses
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- Synonyms
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- Help
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- Microsoft Word
- Practice I
- Practice II
OpenOffice Writer has a bunch of shortcuts to make life easier:
- Ctrl + 0 the paragraph where the cursor is will become Text Body
- Ctrl + 1 the paragraph where the cursor is will become Heading 1
- Ctrl + 2 the paragraph where the cursor is will become Heading 2
- Ctrl + 3 the paragraph where the cursor is will become Heading 3
- Ctrl + 4 the paragraph where the cursor is will become Heading 4
- Ctrl + i marked text will be italicized
- Ctrl + b marked text will change to bold
- Ctrl + r the paragraph will bee Right Aligned
- Ctrl + l the paragraph will bee Left Aligned
- Ctrl + m marked text will loose all manual formatting – only those defined in the paragraph style will survive
- Ctrl + s save file
- Ctrl + p print file
- Ctrl + f find or replace text
- Ctrl + c copy marked text to computer memory
- Ctrl + x cut out and move marked text to computer memory (X symbolizes the scissors)
- Ctrl + v insert contents of computer memory (V symbolizes the insertion)
- Ctrl + shift + v same as above, only you can choose to insert text with reduced formatting or no formatting at all
- Return start a new paragraph
- Ctrl + Return start a new page (page break)
- Shift + Return start a new line (but not a new paragraph)
- Ctrl + - insert an optional hyphen – the word will be hyphenated here only if it doesn’t fit on line
- Ctrl + Shift + Space insert a non-breaking space
- Ctrl + Shift + - insert a non-breaking hyphen
- – + Space long hyphen “–”
- . + . + . + space ellipse “…”
- Alt + shift + F8 to change Selection mode from Standard to Block area
