Getting Started Guide 7.3 - Chapter 14 - Customizing LibreOffice - Key Interface Customization

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This guide chapter focuses on customizing LibreOffice 7.3, covering how to tailor menus, toolbars, icons, and user interface variants to match individual workflows. It explains modifying existing menus, creating new menus, adding accelerators, and assigning shortcut keys, including macOS-specific substitutions. The chapter also guides saving and reloading keyboard configurations, resetting shortcuts, assigning macros to events, and integrating extensions. Additional customization options include adding colors and fonts, with notes on locating free-licensed fonts.

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Pages20

Reading Time7 min

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Introduction

Customizing menu content

Modifying an existing menu

Creating a new menu

Creating an accelerator

Customizing toolbars

Modifying existing toolbars

Creating a new toolbar

Choosing icons for toolbar commands

Customizing user interface variants

Assigning shortcut keys

Saving changes to a file

Loading a saved keyboard configuration

Resetting the shortcut keys

Assigning macros to events

Adding functionality with extensions

Installing extensions

Updating extensions

Removing and disabling extensions

Adding custom colors

Adding fonts

Finding free-licensed fonts

User interface variants

Selecting the user interface

Getting Started Guide 7.3 Chapter 14, Customizing LibreOffice This document is Copyright © 2022 by the LibreOffice Documentation Team. Contributors are listed below. You may distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU General Public License ( [https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)), version 3 or later, or the Creative Commons Attribution License ( [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)), version 4.0 or later. All trademarks within this guide belong to their legitimate owners. Contributors To this edition Jean Hollis Weber Kees Kriek To previous editions Jean Hollis Weber Rafael Lima Kees Kriek Jorge Rodríguez Steve Fanning John A Smith Olivier Hallot Ron Faile Jr. Feedback Please direct any comments or suggestions about this document to the Documentation Team’s mailing list: [documentation@global.libreoffice.org](documentation@global.libreoffice.org) | Note | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Everything you send to a mailing list, including your email address and any other personal information that is written in the message, is publicly archived and cannot be deleted.
Publication date and software version
Published February 2022. Based on LibreOffice 7.3 Community.
Other versions of LibreOffice may differ in appearance and functionality..
Using LibreOffice on macOS
Some keystrokes and menu items are different on macOS from those used in Windows and Linux. The table below gives some common substitutions for the instructions in this document. For a detailed list, see the application Help. | | | |
Windows or Linux | macOS equivalent |
Effect | | Tools > Options
menu selection | LibreOffice > Preferences Access setup options | | | Right-click Control+click or right-click depending on computer setup Open a context menu Ctrl (Control) ⌘ (Command) Used with other keys Alt ⌥ (Option) or Alt, depending on keyboard Used with other keys F11 ⌘+T Open Styles deck in Sidebar | | | Documentation for LibreOffice is available at [https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/](https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/) Copyright............................................................................................................................2 Contributors.............................................................................................................................. 2 Feedback.................................................................................................................................. 2 Publication date and software version.......................................................................................2 Using LibreOffice on macOS..................................................................................................... 2 Introduction........................................................................................................................4 Customizing menu content..............................................................................................4 Modifying an existing menu....................................................................................................... 5 Creating a new menu................................................................................................................ 5 Creating an accelerator............................................................................................................. 6 Customizing toolbars........................................................................................................7 Modifying existing toolbars........................................................................................................ 8 Creating a new toolbar.............................................................................................................. 8 Choosing icons for toolbar commands..........

FAQs

What areas of the LibreOffice interface does this chapter cover?

It covers menu customization, toolbar customization (including icons), user interface variants, shortcut keys, macros for events, and extensions. It also includes adding custom colors and fonts.

How does the guide handle keyboard and menu differences on macOS?

It provides substitutions for common Windows/Linux actions and keystrokes, mapping them to the corresponding macOS equivalents to keep instructions consistent.

Can I save and restore keyboard shortcut settings?

Yes. The chapter explains saving changes to a file, loading a saved keyboard configuration, and resetting shortcut keys when needed.

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