Impress Guide

Customizing keyboard shortcuts

The Appendix to this book lists the default keyboard shortcuts supplied

with Impress. You can change these defaults or add new shortcuts. You

can assign shortcuts to standard Impress functions or your own macros

and save them for use with Impress only, or with the entire

OpenOffice.org suite.

Caution

Be careful when reassigning your operating system’s or OOo’s

predefined shortcut keys. Many key assignments are universally

understood shortcuts, such as

for Help, and are always

expected to provide certain results. Although you can easily

reset the shortcut key assignments to the OOo defaults,

changing some common shortcut keys can cause confusion,

frustration and possible data loss or corruption, especially if

other users share your computer.

As an example, suppose you wish to assign a shortcut key to easily

insert a duplicate slide in your presentation. You could assign the

Insert

key as a logical shortcut for this purpose, as described below:

1) Choose Tools > Customize.

2) On the Customize dialog box, pick the Keyboard page (Figure

209).

3) As the shortcut key assignment is only relevant with Impress, and

not OpenOffice.org in general, select the Impress button (at the

upper right corner of the Keyboard tab).

4) Next select Insert in the