====================================== LibreOffice Impress keyboard shortcuts ====================================== First published at 4/13/2018 on https://defkey.com/libreoffice-impress-shortcuts LibreOffice Impress is slideshow software included in LibreOffice software suite. It provides tools for drawing, diagrams as well as various display options. LibreOffice Impress can save slideshows as Microsoft PowerPoint and XML based OpenDocument. LibreOffice Impress has 105 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below. Function keys ------------- F2 Edit text F3 Enter Group Ctrl + F3 Exit Group Shift + F3 Duplicate F4 Position and Size F5 View Slide Show Ctrl + Shift + F5 Navigator F7 Spellcheck Ctrl + F7 Thesaurus F8 Edit Points. Ctrl + Shift + F8 Fit text to frame F11 Styles and Formatting Slide shows ----------- Esc End presentation Space Play next effect (if any, else go to next slide) Right arrow Play next effect (if any, else go to next slide) Down arrow Play next effect (if any, else go to next slide) Page Down Play next effect (if any, else go to next slide) Enter Play next effect (if any, else go to next slide) Enter Play next effect (if any, else go to next slide) N Play next effect (if any, else go to next slide) Alt + Page Down Go to next slide without playing effects [Num 1 - 9] then Enter Type a number of a slide and press Enter to go to the slide Left arrow Play previous effect again. If no previous effect exists on this slide, show previous slide Up arrow Play previous effect again. If no previous effect exists on this slide, show previous slide Backspace Play previous effect again. If no previous effect exists on this slide, show previous slide Page Up Play previous effect again. If no previous effect exists on this slide, show previous slide Page Up Play previous effect again. If no previous effect exists on this slide, show previous slide Alt + Page Up Go to the previous slide without playing effects Home Jump to first slide in the slide show End Jump to the last slide in the slide show Ctrl + Page Up Go to the previous slide Ctrl + Page Down Go to the next slide B Show black screen until next key or mouse wheel event . Show black screen until next key or mouse wheel event W Show white screen until next key or mouse wheel event , Show white screen until next key or mouse wheel event Normal view ----------- + Zoom in - Zoom out Num * Fit page in window Num / Zoom in on current selection Shift + Ctrl + G Group selected objects Shift + Ctrl + Alt + A Ungroup selected group Ctrl + Left click Enter a group, so that you can edit the individual objects of the group. Click outside the group to return to the normal view Shift + Ctrl + K Combine selected objects Shift + Ctrl + K Split selected object. This combination only works on an object that was created by combining two or more objects Ctrl + + Bring to Front Shift + Ctrl + + Bring Forward Ctrl + - Send Backward Shift + Ctrl + - Send to Back Editing text ------------ Ctrl + - Soft hyphens; hyphenation set by you Ctrl + Shift + - Non-breaking hyphen (is not used for hyphenation) Ctrl + Shift + Space Non-breaking spaces. Non-breaking spaces are not used for hyphenation and are not expanded if the text is justified Shift + Enter Line break without paragraph change Left arrow Move cursor to left Shift + Left arrow Move cursor with selection to the left Ctrl + Left arrow Go to beginning of word Ctrl + Shift + Left arrow Selecting to the left word by word Right arrow Move cursor to right Shift + Right arrow Move cursor with selection to the right Ctrl + Right arrow Go to start of next word Ctrl + Shift + Right arrow Selecting to the right word by word Up arrow Move cursor up one line Shift + Up arrow Selecting lines in an upwards direction Ctrl + Up arrow Move cursor to beginning of the previous paragraph Ctrl + Shift + Up arrow Select to beginning of paragraph. Next keystroke extends selection to beginning of previous paragraph Down arrow Move cursor down one line Shift + Down arrow Selecting lines in a downward direction Ctrl + Down arrow Move cursor to end of paragraph. Next keystroke move cursor to end of next paragraph Ctrl + Shift + Down arrow Select to end of paragraph. Next keystroke extends selection to end of next paragraph Home Go to beginning of line Shift + Home Go and select to the beginning of a line End Go to end of line Shift + End Go and select to end of line Ctrl + Home Go to start of text block in slide Ctrl + Shift + Home Go and select text to start of text block in slide Ctrl + End Go to end of text block in slide Ctrl + Shift + End Go and select text to end of document Ctrl + Del Delete text to end of word Ctrl + Backspace Delete text to beginning of word Ctrl + Backspace In a list: delete an empty paragraph in front of the current paragraph Ctrl + Shift + Del Delete text to end of sentence Ctrl + Shift + Backspace Delete text to beginning of sentence General ------- Arrow keys Moves the selected object or the page view in the direction of the arrow Ctrl + Arrow keys Move around in the page view Shift + Move the mouse Constrains the movement of the selected object horizontally or vertically Ctrl + Move the mouse Hold down Ctrl and drag an object to create a copy of the object Alt (with Copy when moving option active) Hold down Alt to draw or resize objects by dragging from the center of the object outward Alt + Left click Select the object behind the currently selected object Alt + Shift + Left click Select the object in front of the currently selected object Shift + Left click Select adjacent items or a text passage. Click at the start of a selection, move to the end of the selection, and then hold down Shift while you click Shift + Move the mouse (when resizing) Hold down Shift while dragging to resize an object to maintain the proportions of the object Tab Select objects in the order in which they were created Shift + Tab Select objects in the reverse order in which they were created Esc Exit current mode Enter Activate a placeholder object in a new presentation (only if the frame is selected) Ctrl + Enter Moves to the next text object on the slide IF there are no text objects on the slide, or if you reached the last text object, a new slide is inserted after the current slide. The new slide uses the same layout as the current slide Page Up Switch to the previous slide. No function on the first slide Page Down Switch to the next slide. No function on the last slide Slide Sorter ------------ Home Set the focus to the first/last slide End Set the focus to the first/last slide Left arrow / Right arrow Set the focus to the next/previous slide Page Up Set the focus to the next/previous slide Page Down Set the focus to the next/previous slide Enter Change to Normal Mode with the active slide Source: LibreOffice help Last modified on (UTC): Monday, November 11, 2019 Defkey © All rights reserved.