On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Thibault Holcombe wrote: > I love openoffice but the biggest flaw for me is not being able to creat > shortcuts for special characters like in Word. I am forced to use word for > that reason when I write papers in different languages. I hope you guys can > change that and let me know when you do! thx!
If it is merely a question of using different languages, the easy solution may be to install national keyboards at the operating-system level, and switch to them at need. For example, I can switch to get абБгдеё or αβγδε or אבגדה at will, and if I limit myself to western Europe, the US International keyboard gives me é, þ, ß, ñ, ø, å and dozens of others without even switching. Windows and Mac OS X can both do this quite easily, and you don't even need any special feature in your word processor; it's built in, and works just as well with any program. I don't actually know whether Linux can do it, but I suppose it must. If, however, this is not enough (say you have some dingbats like ✠ or ✄ or ❡ that you need to insert regularly), Openoffice.org can do that too. First, record a macro that uses Insert->Special character. Then, under Tools->Customize, set an available keystroke to invoke the macro. -- John W Kennedy "Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. ...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because it humiliates. You may come to think murder wrong, because it is violent, and not because it is unjust." -- G. K. Chesterton. "The Ball and the Cross" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
