Assigning OpenOffice or StarOffice Styles With the Keyboard, and Some Handy Reformatting Keyboard Shortcuts

I occasionally mention, in class, that you can apply styles with the keyboard too. However, I'm a menu user by nature so I usually forget to emphasize it enough. Here are the steps for setting up styles so you can apply them with a keyboard shortcut. The procedure comes from the new Tips and Tricks blog from the folks creating the OpenOffice.org / StarOffice Help.

1. Select Tools - Customize from the main menu
2. Select the Keyboard tab
3. Select the shortcut key to assign from the list of shortcut keys
4. Select Style from the Category list
   Scroll right down to the Styles entry and click the + sign to show the style types of OOo
5. Select the style to assign from the Function list
6. Click Ok

I also want to include two very useful comments from that blog entry:

Two other useful shortcuts related to this are: Ctrl+0 - Apply the style "Default" to the current or to the currently selected paragraph(s) Ctrl+Shift+Space - Reset the formatting of the current selection to the style applied, i.e. remove any "hard" or manual formatting from it.

Posted by Lutz Hoeger on May 17, 2006 at 07:53 AM CEST #

Thanks, Lutz. We should have mentioned these.
I actually use Ctrl+Shift+Space very often in ill-formatted docs where direct formatting prevents changes of styles to get visible.

Posted by Frank Peters on May 17, 2006 at 09:51 AM CEST #

Comments

[unknown]

where is the shortcut list there?

[Solveig]

Hi,

>> where is the shortcut list there?

I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean. You can choose Tools > Customize and click the Keyboard tab to see all currently applied shortcuts.

[albert]

sir/madam

can you give me shortcut keys for GIMP Phop

Thank You
Albert.