On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 11:55 +0000, CPHennessy wrote: > On Fri January 6 2006 13:57, Gareth Curtis wrote: > > Using OOo 2.0.1 with WinXP. > > I doubt if I'm the only person in this world who can remember the Alt > > numbers of some of the more common special characters, especially those > > with accents and umlauts. Besides, using these is often quicker than > > fumbling around the Special Character facility on OOo. > > One oddity I've noticed with Alt-148 (ö) is that the cursor always seems > > to move back such that the character appears before instead of after the > > one I've just typed. So far as I remember, this happened with OOo 1.1.x. > > (It may also happen with other special characters, but none I routinely > > use.) > > Is there some reason for this, am I missing something, or is this > > (admittedly) a very small bug? > > Gareth, > An alternative to using either the Alt sequence or the special Chars dialog, > is to setup an autocorrect so that when you type "o\:" it is autocorrected to > ö. >
Just a quick reminder, there is http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/various_topics/Howto_special_char.pdf to help with inserting special characters. Perhaps one of the methods described might be preferable to having to remember Alt sequences. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
