Fiches 11 en anglais, Libre Office

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Toolbars of tools in Libre-Office Writer
Pico-S-vox, reading in Libre Office Writer
Menu and icon size in Libre Office
Text and title size in Libre Office
Libre Office, change the colors of the interface
Save as

Toolbars of tools in Libre-Office Writer

You can display different toolbars in Libre-Office Writer.

Barre d’outils

Do : ALT + O to go to the menu:Tools. (or use the mouse)
Do : ALT + P to be able to customize the toolbars.

The customization window allows you to modify menus, keyboard shortcuts and toolbars.

Customization window

In each toolbar, you can define the icons to put or hide.

You can also move these icons to put, at the beginning of the bar, the icons you use the most.

When you type a text, to reach the toolbars, you use the F6 key repeatedly.
 The first time you press the F6 key, you reach the menu : File.
 The other times the F6 key is pressed, the different toolbars are reached.
You can move through each toolbar with Right Arrow or Left Arrow.

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Pico-S-vox, reading in Libre Office Writer

Check that Pico-S-Vox is active.
Check that the keyboard shortcuts are enabled.

Open a LibreOffice Writer document. Press the F6 key repeatedly until you hear :’configuration’. Then use the Down Arrow to hear the different buttons :

Boutons PicoVox

 Read the selection,
 Read the current sentence, ALT + K ,
 Read the current paragraph, ALT + P, (P as Paragraph)
 Stop playback, ALT + S, (S as in Stop)
 Read the previous passage, ALT + Left Arrow ,
 Read the following passage. ALT + Right Arrow,
 Reading the current word, Alt + W (W as Word),
 Repeat the last song played, ALT + R (R for Repeat),

Reminder : you can always go back to the beginning of the text by pressing : CTRL + Origin.

Menu and icon size in Libre Office

1) Launch Libre Office in the usual way.
2) Press ALT + O to go to the menu : Tools. You hear : Outils, Tools.
3) Down arrow until you hear : Options.
4) Confirm with Enter. We come to the line : Libre Office

Libre Office Line

5) To open this line, press : CTRL + Right Arrow.
6) Then scroll down with the Down Arrow until you hear : Affichage, Display.
7) TABULATE once to reach the choice of the scale. There, using the Up Arrow, you can put for example 150%, this enlarges the font of the menus at the top of the windows and in the drop-down menus.
8) TABULATE once again, we arrive at a combined box allowing to choose the size of the icons : automatic, small, large. The choice is made with Down Arrow or Up Arrow.
9) Finally, Tab to the button : OK.

Text and title size in Libre Office

1) Launch Libre Office in the usual way.
2) Press ALT + O to go to the menu : Tools. You hear : Tools.
3) Down arrow until you hear : Options.
4) Confirm with Enter and scroll down to the line : Free Office Writer.
5) To open this line do : CTRL + Right Arrow.
6) Then go down with Down Arrow until you hear : Standard Fonts (Western)
7) Confirm with Enter.
8) Choose the default font : for example Carlito 10.
It will be used automatically as a body of text.
9) Choose the font for the title : for example Verdana 28.
It will be used automatically for titles and subtitles.
10) Confirm by clicking on the button : OK

Libre Office, change the colors of the interface

Change the colors

1) Launch Libre Office in the usual way.
2) Press ALT + O to go to the menu : Tools. You hear : Tools.
3) Down arrow until you hear : Options.
4) Confirm with Enter. This brings us to the line : Libre Office.
5) To open this line do : CTRL + Right Arrow.
6) Then scroll down with the Down Arrow until you hear : interface colors.
7) Choose the background color, for example : black.
8) Choose the font color, for example : white.
9) Confirm with Enter.

Save as

If you have entered a text, you may want to save it to find it. To do this, you must save it as, for example : save under Documents-Invoices, if the Invoices folder already exists in the Documents folder. Here is a procedure :

 Launch LibreOffice Writer for example with WIN + ALT + ampersand.
Enter part of your text, only part.
 Do ALT + F you hear : File-Menu .
 With Down Arrow scroll down until you hear : Save as.
 Press the Enter key. A window opens, you hear : Name : No Name. Then enter the name you want to give to your text. do not validate !
 With Down Arrow you hear : Save to folder.

This will bring you to the accessdvlinux folder.
 With Down Arrow scroll down until you hear : Empty documents

this word : empty, indicates that you are in a folder.
Confirm with Enter

 With Down Arrow scroll down until you hear : Empty invoices This word : empty, indicates that you are in a folder.
 Confirm with Enter, twice.

 The text you are working on is always open, you can continue to enter text.

As you type, save your work often by doing CTRL + S
This operation saves the text, as you go along, where you have chosen. Here in : Documents-Bills. (for example).

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