Ctrl+pgup not working [going to the top of the next page]

rayandrews · February 10, 2026, 3:13am

Ctrl+PgUp or PgDn only works for the first press, after that nothing until I click the mouse on another page, then, again, I get one action from the keystroke and nothing after. Same result with previous version 24xxx.

Version: 26.2.0.3 (X86_64)
Build ID: afbbd0df0edb6d40b450b0337ac646b0913a760c
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-CA (en_CA.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Ctrl+Home / End work fine.

BTW:

says:
“Ctrl + Page Up/Down: Move to the previous/next sheet”

whereas:

https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/04/01020000.html?DbPAR=WRITER

says:

Switch cursor between text and header
Ctrl+PageUp
Switch cursor between text and footer
Ctrl+PageDown

EarnestAl · February 10, 2026, 3:30am

The incorrect information is on a third party site

rayandrews · February 10, 2026, 3:32am

Sure, still you or they might want to know. Nothing probably to be done about it tho. The internet is always plagued by this kind of thing. And the URL makes it look official.

cwolan · February 10, 2026, 4:19am

It says so for Calc (“Practical Shortcuts for LibreOffice Calc”)

Wanderer · February 10, 2026, 7:17am

No. You can’t reserve any combinations of “Libre” and “Office” in any language. So my first impulse would be not to download software there.
.
But supporting informations are welcome and the keyboard shortcut you stumbled on is in official help also (but as already mentioned for Calc):

https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/04/01020000.html?DbPAR=CALC#bm_id3145801

rayandrews · February 10, 2026, 3:20pm

Ah! So not writer but ‘Calc’ … I’m not tuned in to any of these subdivisions of LibreOffice yet. I’ll be more alert from now on. Anyway, a logical Page Up command would be expected, do we not have one in Writer? Seems strange if not.

LeroyG · February 10, 2026, 5:37pm

No. These shortcuts makes the cursor jump between the text and the header/footer, and viceversa.
Headers and footers are the same in the same page style, so, the behavior seems correct to me.

Not sure what “logical” means here.

rayandrews · February 10, 2026, 5:42pm

Meaning going from the top of page 55 to the top of page 56. In contrast to screen page up, which of course is not part of the ‘logic’ of the document but provisional on the size of your document’s window on your machine. Honestly, not that I’m an expert, but I’ve never seen a text editor or word processor that didn’t have page up.

bantoniof · February 10, 2026, 7:12pm

Have you tried using the keyboard shortcut Alt + PgUp / PgDn ?

rayandrews · February 10, 2026, 7:17pm

That does it, thanks. Nuts, I got misdirected by the faulty information in that URL I linked above. Then I missed the reference to ‘Calc’ vs. ‘Writer’ so I was sure that ^PgUp was supposed to work.

bantoniof · February 10, 2026, 7:22pm

PgUp / PgDn move the cursor one screen up/down.

This is useful when you are reading text and you have zoom activated, that way you don’t lose the content of what you are reading.

rayandrews · February 10, 2026, 7:26pm

Oh sure, it’s useful alright, but there are times when you want to jump up a logical page, not a screen page.

EarnestAl · February 10, 2026, 8:43pm

To go to the top of another page, click the Go to page arrows or enter a page no. in Navigator in the Sidebar.
GoToPageNo

The command is Next Element and Previous Element which you could assign to say, Ctrl+Shift+PageDn and to Ctrl+Shift+PageUp.
Click Tools > Customise > Keyboard. In the dialogue search, enter Next, select Next Element, then select Ctrl+Shift+PageDn, then click Assign and repeat for the other direction.

[Edit]
There is a command Alt+PgDn (go to beginning of next page) which I cannot check as my laptop shares PgDn with the numeric keyboard and that combination enters the Windows hard-coded symbol instead

rayandrews · February 10, 2026, 11:18pm

Excellent. Seems ‘Navigator’ is going to be a friend.

cwolan · February 11, 2026, 3:02am

Alt+PgUp / PgDn will move the cursor to the beginning of the previous / next page. This does not happen with the command Previous Element / Next Element.

LeroyG · February 11, 2026, 11:15am

Have tested with Ctrl+G?
Just found that there is another shortcut key that points to the same uno command: Ctrl+Shift+F5.

rayandrews · February 11, 2026, 1:46pm

Where is the best list of all keyboard commands for writer? May as well have it at hand.

LeroyG · February 11, 2026, 3:10pm

Menu Tool - Customize - Keyboard tab; but it’s not printable.
See the Popular Links below your question.

cwolan · February 11, 2026, 4:12pm

One may also use the status bar (click on the Page number area) or
the menu bar (choose Edit ⟶ Go to Page).

Ctrl+Shift+F5 seems to be used on MacOS as well as in French / Spanish UI.

File: Accelerators.xcu

<node oor:name="G_MOD1" oor:op="replace">
  <prop oor:name="Command">
    <value xml:lang="x-no-translate">L10N SHORTCUTS - NO TRANSLATE</value>
    <value xml:lang="en-US" install:module="unxwnt">.uno:GotoPage</value>
    <value xml:lang="en-US" install:module="macosx">.uno:RepeatSearch</value>
    <value xml:lang="es">.uno:Save</value>
    <value xml:lang="fr">.uno:Bold</value>
  </prop>
</node>

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mikekaganski · February 11, 2026, 4:15pm

I suggest checking the link to LibreOffice help that you provided in the initial question, including links at the bottom of that help page.