Keyboard shortcuts

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#1

I was trying to assist a blind user with something, and he cannot use
a mouse, so I was trying to do it all with keyboard shortcuts. I ran
into a problem when two menu items have the same shortcut. According
to the Appendix of the Writer Guide, the answer is to press the
shortcut combination a second time to move to the second instance, but
when I did that the selection did not move at all. Once it got to the
first instance of, for example, Alt+d, it stayed on it no matter how
many times I pressed it.

Did I miss something here? I thought the guide was clear, and it
seemed like a sensible solution, but I could not get it to work.

Thanks,

#2

I'm not sure anyone can help without knowing which menu items you are having problems with. But here's an idea. Once you have opened a menu using Alt+character, you are in a different mode and, although Alt+character usually works to select individual menu items, you need use only the plain character. For example, Save in the File menu can be reached by Alt+F, Alt+S - but more easily by Alt+F, S.

Once you have reached the relevant menu (using Alt), does pressing plain D twice achieve what you need?

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

#3

I was in LibreOffice 5.1.3.2 for Windows, and I wanted to insert a
field. Alt+i opens the Insert menu, and Field has the keyboard
shortcut alt+d. But so does Footnote and Endnote, and it comes first.
So pressing Alt+d goes to Footnote and Endnote, and there it stays. I
have tried just d on its own after that, or Alt+d,d, but it doesn't
seem to do anything.

Thanks,

#4

I was in LibreOffice 5.1.3.2 for Windows, and I wanted to insert a field. Alt+i opens the Insert menu, and Field has the keyboard shortcut alt+d.

In my book, that's D, not Alt+D.

But so does Footnote and Endnote, and it comes first. So pressing Alt+d goes to Footnote and Endnote, and there it stays.

My suggestion was that you should try D here, not Alt+D.

Brian Barker

#5

OK, I tried it as Alt+i to open the Insert menu, then just d by
itself. No change. It goes to Footnote and Endnote and stays there no
matter how often I press d.

Thanks,

#6

Hi,

Kevin O'Brien schrieb:

I was in LibreOffice 5.1.3.2 for Windows, and I wanted to insert a
field. Alt+i opens the Insert menu, and Field has the keyboard
shortcut alt+d. But so does Footnote and Endnote, and it comes first.
So pressing Alt+d goes to Footnote and Endnote, and there it stays. I
have tried just d on its own after that, or Alt+d,d, but it doesn't
seem to do anything.

That is, because it has opened a sub-menu. You first need to leave the sub-menu by pressing Esc-key. Then the next D-key will get the Field item.

The need to leave the sub-menu is unhandy. You can customize the menu and rename the entry Field so that you add a character after the text Field, that is not used by any other menu item. The automatic, which assigns the underline access, will use it then. The problem is, that _all_ characters of the word Field are already used for accessing other items.

Kind regards
Regina

#7

You can also use: Tools > Customize, Keyboard tab to set keyboard
shortcuts. I use this to assign 'easy' shortcuts to features often used or
features in 'inconvenient' menu locations. You can also save these
settings to a file - see buttons for Save and Load.