Thanks for the tip - I never even thought of using the <backspace> key. 
Thanks Dan!

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> On Friday 19 August 2005 10:29 pm, Addison Lee wrote:
>> Thanks for all your replies.
>>
>> I did do the keyboard shortcut which helps. I guess I'll just have to
>> live with the popup dialog.
>>
>> Another thing I noticed was that a dialog also pops up when you hit
>> the <delete> key. Is this dialog also unavoidable? I've never
>> encountered a program (other than deleting files in Windows) which
>> does this. It seems kind of odd and like overkill to me.
>>
>> Addison
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>     Have you tried using the <Backspace>key instead of the <delete>
> key?
>
> Dan
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Eike Rathke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.openoffice.questions
>> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 4:19 AM
>> Subject: Re: Re: spreadsheet fill series dialog
>>
>> > Hi David,
>> >
>> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:54:54 -0700, David Chapman wrote:
>> >> If the cursor happens to be in the position where the dialog pops
>> >> up, you can actually close it without mouse manipulation.
>> >>
>> >> I tried looking for a way of giving focus to the dialog box via
>> >> the keyboard but was unsucessful.
>> >
>> > Sounds like a problem of how you setup your window manager then, it
>> > seems you use "focus follows mouse" or similar. Your window manager
>> > could provide a key assignment to focus the topmost window, or
>> > cycle through.
>> >
>> >  Eike
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