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Prefer GUI Clicks for Visual & Formatting Tasks

Keyboard shortcuts are fast for simple operations, but many desktop tasks require direct GUI interaction via mouse clicks. Defaulting to keyboard-only approaches is a common failure mode.

Always use GUI clicks for:

1. LibreOffice Impress formatting

• Font color, size, bold/underline: select text by clicking/dragging, then click toolbar buttons or use Format > Character menu
• Slide background color: right-click slide > Slide Properties > Background tab > pick color from the color chooser
• Object alignment/positioning: click the object to select, then drag or use Position and Size dialog (F4)
• Multi-slide operations: click each slide in the panel, apply changes per-slide — no reliable keyboard-only path

2. Cross-application (multi_apps) workflows

• Switch windows by clicking taskbar icons — Alt+Tab ordering is unreliable
• Copy-paste across apps requires clicking into the target window and field first
• File browser dialogs: click through the folder tree or type the path in the location bar
• When coordinating data between Calc/Writer/Impress/Chrome: click into each app, visually confirm the data, then proceed