I was in LibreOffice 5.1.3.2 for Windows, and I wanted to insert a field. Alt+i opens the Insert menu, and Field has the keyboard shortcut alt+d. But so does Footnote and Endnote, and it comes first. So pressing Alt+d goes to Footnote and Endnote, and there it stays. I have tried just d on its own after that, or Alt+d,d, but it doesn't seem to do anything.
Thanks, On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > At 20:22 25/07/2016 -0400, Kevin O'Brien wrote: >> >> I was trying to assist a blind user with something, and he cannot use a >> mouse, so I was trying to do it all with keyboard shortcuts. I ran into a >> problem when two menu items have the same shortcut. According to the >> Appendix of the Writer Guide, the answer is to press the shortcut >> combination a second time to move to the second instance, but when I did >> that the selection did not move at all. Once it got to the first instance >> of, for example, Alt+d, it stayed on it no matter how many times I pressed >> it. >> >> Did I miss something here? I thought the guide was clear, and it seemed >> like a sensible solution, but I could not get it to work. > > > I'm not sure anyone can help without knowing which menu items you are having > problems with. But here's an idea. Once you have opened a menu using > Alt+character, you are in a different mode and, although Alt+character > usually works to select individual menu items, you need use only the plain > character. For example, Save in the File menu can be reached by Alt+F, Alt+S > - but more easily by Alt+F, S. > > Once you have reached the relevant menu (using Alt), does pressing plain D > twice achieve what you need? > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Kevin B. O'Brien [email protected] http://google.me/+kevinobrien “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” - Will Rogers -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
