How to access the Tabbed toolbar with the keyboard

LeroyG · December 3, 2020, 1:47am

Menu View - User Interface - Tabbed enables the tabbed toolbar.

The leftmost button in the new toolbar allows you to hide the menu, giving you more screen for your documents. But then Alt, F, S (to save) will not work.

So it seems that the tabbed toolbar is there to be used with the mouse or touchscreen. But what to do in an emergency?

LeroyG · December 3, 2020, 1:47am

You can access the Tabbed toolbar (added at version 6.2) by pressing F6, then can:

move one tab to the left with Ctrl+Tab or
move one tab to the right with Ctrl+Shift+Tab
switch through the buttons with Tab or Shift+Tab
press Enter to accept

So, instead of Alt, F, S in the stardard toolbar (or Ctrl+S), you need to press:

F6
Ctrl+Shift+Tab¹
Tab ×6, and finally
Enter Then take a breath and keep editing.

A shorter option is to press:

F6
Ctrl+Shift+Tab¹
Alt+F (I still don’t know what that rightmost part of the tabbed toolbar is called)
Enter
S

¹ While in the same document LibreOffice remembers the tab selected; so next time no need to Ctrl+Shift+Tab.

Tested with LibreOffice 6.4.7.2 (x86); OS: Windows 6.1.

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