At 14:21 16/04/2014 -0400, Tracey Belle wrote:
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. On my old versions of
Office, I could create a keystroke combination to associate with a
particular symbol, because I used the symbol so much. I can't
access the functionality on the current version of Office that I
have, but I downloaded OpenOffice specifically to have access to
this feature, because I assumed it was part of the program. It
would be a really useful feature!
A couple of suggestions in addition to those already provided:
o Type something that is otherwise unlikely to appear in your
documents, e.g. #a, #b, etc. After you have completed your basic
typing, simply search for and replace these tokens with the required
special characters.
o Use AutoText. Insert the character once into a document and select
it. Go to Edit | AutoText... . Select a category. Choose a name
and a shortcut (which can be as short as a single character). Go to
AutoText | New (text only).
To insert the character, type the shortcut and press F3. This has
the problem (already mentioned in another context) that the shortcut
needs to be separated from previous text by punctuation or a space,
so the character cannot be buried in a word.
An alternative way to invoke AutoText is to use the Insert toolbar
(View | Toolbars > | Insert). Now you can click the AutoText button
or - better still - click the down-arrow next to the AutoText button
and navigate directly to your shortcut. This technique has the
advantage that you *can* use it to insert your special character within a word.
Unfortunately, AutoText items appear always to end with a paragraph
break; I don't see any way to avoid this. So in general you will
still need to type Backspace or to reposition the cursor
(left-arrow?) after inserting your character.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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