On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 18:21:02 -0000, Tracey Belle <mini-...@comcast.net> wrote:
Hi there. I've been hoping OpenOffice adds the feature of creating
keystroke shortcuts for special characters to be inserted, rather than
using the menu to insert special characters.
there are at least three options:
(1) assign an autocorrect combination to your special character, such as _E for euro sign. however, you will have
to precede and succeed it with whitespace characters, which is not always convenient: e. g., when you want to
insert an 'a umlaut' instead of 'a' to the german word 'bar' (bear) by using :a as a shortcut, you have to type
'b<space>:a<space><backspace><left arrow><backspace><right arrow>r', which is
quite long.
(2) record a macro (tools -> macros -> record macro, then insert a character through the
dialogue, stop recording and save the macro) and assign a shortcut to it (tools ->
customise -> keyboard, choose a key combination and find your macro in the list of
categories under 'openoffice.org macros -> user').
(3) under windows some alt+(a number from the numpad) shortcuts are provided by
the system, e. g. alt+123 is a '{' or alt+1 is a smiley face (see on the net).
under linuxes localisation options a still more extensive, with some four or so
symbols assignable to each key through different combinations of alt, shift,
ctrl, scroll lock etc.
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