On Wed December 14 2005 14:21, + Gerri Belsito wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for sharing Openoffice with us. > I'm used to excel and am just getting used to Openoffice. > In Excel I'm used to typing in Ctrl: to get today's date. Is there an > Openoffice shortcut to replace this? > Also Ctrl" copied the cell above in Excel. Does Openoffice have a > shortcut for that? > A- n- d - is there a way to drag two cells down to copy the contents? ( > i.e. If you had 20 cells with the same date) > > I would greatly appreciate any tips or suggestions for better using > Openoffice. > Is there anything in openoffice that you feel I might overlook because > Excel didn't have it?
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Sat December 17 2005 04:24, Terry North wrote: > Gerri Belsito <gerri_belsito <at> uhaul.com> writes: > >... > > In Excel I'm used to typing in Ctrl: to get today's date. Is there an > > Openoffice shortcut to replace this? Also Ctrl" copied the cell above in > > > > Excel. Does Openoffice have a shortcut for that? > > There is probably Help on keyboard shortcuts but you can investigate, > create (with some limitations) and delete them using /Tools /Customize: > Keyboard tab. You may have to get/compose macros for the two instances you > mention (I do not know). > > > A- n- d - is there a way to drag two cells down to copy the contents? ( > > i.e. If you had 20 cells with the same date) > > If you drag using the handle in the bottom right corner, you'll get > sequential dates. Formatting the date as text produces bizarre results > when you drag down. Selecting and dragging down two date cells produces > pairs. As far as I know, you'll have to copy and paste. > > > I would greatly appreciate any tips or suggestions for better using > > Openoffice. Is there anything in openoffice that you feel I might > > overlook > > because Excel didn't have it? Please reply to [email protected] only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
