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Keyboard Shortcuts for Increasing/Decreasing Font Size in Libre Office

Tue Jun 19 04:21:42 2012

How to setup keyboard shortcuts in Libre Office to increase/decrease font size from the keyboard (might work for Open Office too)

The other day I got ticked off by the smallest thing: I wanted to find out what the keyboard shortcut for increasing/decreasing font size in Libre Office is, and a few minutes of googling led me nowhere clear. I decided to post this short write up for someone else (including future me) to avoid the annoyance.

Setup The Shortcuts

To maintain consistency, we'll setup CTRL+] to increase font, and CTRL+[ to decrease it. Here's all you need to know:

  • By default these shortcuts are not setup
  • To set them up:
    1. Go to Tools -> Customize -> Keyboard
    2. In the bottom part of the window, in "Functions", select Format as category (first column) and you'll have Increase Font and Reduce Font available as functions in the middle column.
    3. Click on Increase Font, then find CTRL+] in the list of key combinations (top part of the window) and click Modify button (top, right).
    4. Repeat the same for Reduce Font
    5. Click OK

Enjoy!

P.S.: in some forum, I read Libre Office doesn't support keyboard shortcuts for increasing the font in 1-unit divisions... That's all I know, if you find out otherwise, please post a comment.

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  • Anon

    Wed May 1 21:20:26 2013

    Thanks mate. That was exactly what i was looking for.

  • Aaron

    Wed Apr 3 15:29:44 2013

    Wonderful! Thanks for the tip.

    BTW. I noticed this post is almost a year old. This tip still works in version 3.5.

  • karthik

    Fri Jan 25 12:55:31 2013

    thnx

  • Suresh

    Thu Dec 13 08:26:20 2012

    Great post! Thanks.

  • Dongrey

    Wed Aug 1 06:28:11 2012

    Jaanus, Keyboard shortcuts are for power-users . A power user is very platicurar his/her own personal setup. If you make your keyboard shortcuts a global thing, you MUST make them configurable, so that they don't interfere with other shortcuts that a power-user might be attached to. Another option would be to keep the shortcuts local to the toggl app, and let the user make their own software manage global shortcuts. For example, as a Mac user, I use a program called Spark. It allows me to control everything from itunes/pandora, toggl, skype, thunderbird, etc with whatever global keyboard shortcuts I choose. I'm sure there's an app like this for windows users. In short, make it configurable, or keep it local.

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