Issue 28016

Summary: add default shortcuts to increase/decrease font size
Product: Writer Reporter: markellse <mark>
Component: uiAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: erikanderson3, issues, jan.public, jengq, oooforum, shlomif, tal, tobias, yoshimit
Version: OOo 1.1.1Keywords: oooqa, rfe_eval_ok, usability
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Latest Confirmation in: ---
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Issue Depends on:    
Issue Blocks: 4756    

Description markellse 2004-04-20 13:09:38 UTC
Extremely powerful is the MSOffice ability to shrink or expand text a point at 
a time. Ctrl+[ shrinks; Ctrl+] expands, not that OOo needs to use the same keys.

For instance, if you are making a poster, you can expand or shrink very easily 
until the text looks right, or just fits right, instead of having to fiddle 
with individual point sizes.

We'd love it as an enhancement.

Many thanks,
Comment 1 mci 2004-04-21 10:34:20 UTC
Hi markellse,

thanks for using and supporting OpenOffice.org...

to make increasing/reducing fonts easier there are at least two was:

1. rightclick the object bar -> visible buttons -> Increase Font
   rightclick the object bar -> visible buttons -> Reduce Font
   ==> increasing/reducing fonts by mouseclick
2. You can define your own shortcutkeys using  Tools->Configure -> Tab "Keyboard"
 
I agree there should be a "pre-configured" way to increase/reduce fonts...

reassigned to bh
Comment 2 lohmaier 2004-04-21 20:32:21 UTC
original summary "Shrinking and expanding font size"

see also issue 8824
Comment 3 lohmaier 2004-05-01 09:59:05 UTC
*** Issue 12171 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 4 lohmaier 2004-05-03 22:20:46 UTC
*** Issue 27800 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 5 guraknugen 2004-05-04 16:43:31 UTC
I wrote the Issue 27800 and I finally found that I was wrong:

"1. rightclick the object bar -> visible buttons -> Increase Font
   rightclick the object bar -> visible buttons -> Reduce Font
   ==> increasing/reducing fonts by mouseclick"

However, "Increase Font" and "Reduce Font" are not available in OOo Draw or even 
in Calc! I guess that's where I looked for it in the first place, otherwise I 
guess I would have found it, since that was exactly what I was trying to do.

I can see a reason for omitting this in OOo Draw, since you always can use the 
"Fit to frame" option, but I can't see a reason why "Increase/Reduce Font" are 
not available in OOo Calc (other than that MS Excel doesn't have it either, but 
OOo is supposed to be BETTER than MSOffice, right?). It would be very useable 
anyway, wouldn't it? I miss it every day. Or maybe it would be even more 
convenient to add something like "Fit to cell" somewhere in the "Format Cells...
" dialog.

Many thanks again.
Comment 6 lohmaier 2004-12-02 22:58:19 UTC
*** Issue 38025 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 7 odd_bloke 2004-12-03 20:57:38 UTC
I have Shift+Ctrl+, and Shift+Ctrl+. set up as the shortcuts on my MS Office, if
that helps. AFAIK, they were the default settings.

Dan
Comment 8 lohmaier 2005-01-29 22:59:42 UTC
*** Issue 41254 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 9 talcohen 2005-09-20 13:21:38 UTC
The default should be Ctrl+[ and Ctrl-]... yet these cannot even be defined as
keyboard shortcuts (see issue 54855).
Comment 10 hwoarang 2006-02-02 23:41:31 UTC
So, is this one double of issue 4756 ?

Hwoarang
Comment 11 lohmaier 2006-02-02 23:47:43 UTC
not entirely, but very close related. This issue is to add default shortcuts to
the already existing functionality.

issue 4756 is about having this available in every app and furthermore have it
work when the selection includes different font-sizes. So these two are very
closely related, and thus I set it to the blocks-field and do some janitorial
stuff (setting keywords, reassigning)
Comment 12 jengq 2008-03-31 09:48:32 UTC
Dear all developers, I maybe new to this but I've seen many asking for "this
function with <key> as default/pre-defined". And I see there are also this
"platform problem (windows/linux)" to add the enhancement for user to add new
shortcut key by themself. How about let this enhancement (add new shortcut key)
included in the next release and let user choose which best for their own
platform. Surely if they know that those shortcut not allowed on their platform
they won't using it. And yeah I'm one of those who miss those shortcuts like
"Increase font size by one point" and "Paragraph Line Spacing 1/2/1.5" from
MSOffice. Best Regards.
Comment 13 tommy27 2009-02-14 17:34:10 UTC
please consider this issue to be fixed for OOo 3.2 which is planned for 
september 2009
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease32
Comment 14 oooforum (fr) 2019-06-28 12:22:19 UTC
According with last comment