On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 12:02 +1300, Rodney Wilson wrote: > One of the useful ways to get around within a Microsoft Word document is with > Control-arrow. Control-left_arrow and control-right_arrow work the same in > OpenOffice, moving around one word at a time. Control-up_arrow and > control-down_arrow work confusingly differently. Doing a control up_arrow to > move the cursor up a paragraph, as would work in MSWord, has the surprisingly > confusing result of taking the current paragraph along for the ride, thereby > inadvertently scrambling the layout of the document. Control-shift-up/down > and Alt-up/down appear not to do anything at all. > > A little experience of using OpenOffice can teach one to avoid using > control-up and control-down as a way to try to move quickly around the > document, but is there an easy way to move the cursor backwards and fowards a > paragraph at a time? (or even a sentence at a time?) My search of the help > system did not find one. >
Are you aware that OOo will let you program the keyboard shortcuts yourself? Well you can. See Tools > Customize and if that is not enough, you can get more information from the user guide at http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x/user_guide2_draft.pdf -- 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]
