Operation Manual

Figure 16: Choosing View options for LibreOffice applications
Mouse positioning
Specifies if and how the mouse pointer will be positioned in newly opened dialogs.
Middle mouse button
Defines the function of the middle mouse button.
• Automatic scrolling – dragging while pressing the middle mouse button shifts the view.
• Paste clipboard – pressing the middle mouse button inserts the contents of the
“Selection clipboard” at the cursor position.
The “Selection clipboard” is independent of the normal clipboard that you use by Edit >
Copy/Cut/Paste or their respective keyboard shortcuts. Clipboard and “Selection clipboard”
can contain different contents at the same time.
Function Clipboard Selection clipboard
Copy content Edit > Copy Ctrl+C Select text, table, or object.
Paste content Edit > Paste Ctrl+V pastes at
the cursor position.
Clicking the middle mouse button pastes
at the mouse pointer position.
Pasting into another
document
No effect on the clipboard
contents.
The last marked selection is the content
of the selection clipboard.
Graphics output – Use hardware acceleration
Directly accesses hardware features of the graphical display adapter to improve the screen
display. Not supported on all operating systems and LibreOffice distributions.
Graphics output – Use anti-aliasing
Enables and disables anti-aliasing, which makes the display of most graphical objects look
smoother and with fewer artifacts. Not supported on all operating systems and LibreOffice
distributions.
Tip
Press Shift+Ctrl+R to restore or refresh the view of the current document after
changing the anti-aliasing settings, to see the effect.
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