Issue 27744

Summary:	There is no way to assign a short cut to the special characters
Product:	Writer	Reporter:	ogechter <ogechter>
Component:	code	Assignee:	michael.ruess
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	issues@sw <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	OOo 1.1.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description ogechter 2004-04-13 16:11:24 UTC

I'm a big user of special characters, and it's very boring to have to come back 
to the special characters popup every time, when it's not possible to use a 
configurable shortcut to insert some often use characters.

Regards,

Comment 1 michael.ruess 2004-04-14 09:16:27 UTC

I have no problem assigning a shortcut to "Insert.Special Character". 
Open a Writer document and go to Tools.Configure, tabpage "Keyboard". There I
selected e.g. "Ctrl+Shift+S", Category "Insert", Function "Insert Special
Character" and clicked "Modify" button. Now I could

Comment 2 ogechter 2004-04-14 09:46:48 UTC

I suppose I've bad explain the issue.
I was speaking about a character himself and not about the function "insert 
special character" (but thank you for this tip).
e.g : I'm user of the U+25CF character and of the U+2013 character.
I would like to be able to allow a ctrl+shift+. and ctrl+shift+- to those 
characters to write faster.
I could be very usefull if for european people writing in foreign languages.

Comment 3 Regina Henschel 2004-04-14 10:00:44 UTC

I am missing such a feature too. I need it for mathematical operators, when
writing inline without formula-editor.

Comment 4 Regina Henschel 2004-04-14 10:04:46 UTC

I think it is a dublicate of issue 4579

Comment 5 michael.ruess 2004-04-14 10:20:09 UTC

Ah, now I understand your request. Thanks for clearing up.
ANd as regina mentioned, it is a duplicate to issue 4579.

Comment 6 michael.ruess 2004-04-14 10:20:45 UTC

Set as duplicate to issue 4579.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 4579 ***

Comment 7 michael.ruess 2004-04-14 10:25:03 UTC

Closed as duplicate.