Style all titles, subheadings, paragraphs, text, and apply different font sizes, colors, text alignment. Format Your DocumentĬontinue by “formatting” the parts of your document as you’d like them to appear. We created a plain structure for ordinary news posts on a personal blog, as you can see in the image above. On a blank page, construct a basic “structure” for a type of document you use regularly. Let’s see how we can make a more involved full-blown template for future documents. The AutoText snippet will replace the corresponding shortcut – in our example, the full name of our site, “Make Tech Easier.” Create a Document Structure You have just created your first AutoText snippet!Īfter coming back to your document, type the shortcut you used for your snippet – in our case, “mte” – and press F3. Snippets and ShortcutsĬlick on the “AutoText” pull-down menu below and in the middle of the window and pick “New (text only)” from the options that appear.

Just click in its field and replace the suggested Shortcut with anything you fancy.

It’s not obligatory to accept Writer’s suggestion – you can change the shortcut to whatever you prefer. This allows quick and easy access to your snippet. Enter a nickname for your snippet in the Name field and note the Shortcut that LibreOffice Writer will create as you type. Since we want to create our own AutoText snippets, ignore the existing ones, and click on the “My AutoText” group that was empty until now. LibreOffice Writer will inject the selected AutoText snippet “where your cursor was” in your active document. To use them, select the one you want and click the Insert button.

The AutoText window comes by default with many snippets of phrases and even entire templates. Write a phrase or sentence on your screen, then select the text.Ĭhoose AutoText from the application’s Tools menu, or press Ctrl + F3 from your keyboard to open the relevant LibreOffice Writer window. As your first experiment with it, try turning a short phrase to “plain text” AutoText.

You can convert any chunk of text into an AutoText snippet. Since LibreOffice is considered the de facto office suite in the open-source world, you can find it pre-installed in most Linux distributions or readily available in the app stores/software centers where you can install it with one click. However, it is not obligatory to resort to the command line.

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