Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart

Hi Jena-Francois,

On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 10:11 +0100, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
> On the same goal and idea, I had suggested a *loooong* time ago on the 
> French OOo lists to create a set of keyboard shortcuts that would help 
> the MS-Word power users switching to Writer.
>
> Beginners and standard users can switch quite easily. They haven't a 
> thorough knowledge of the tool and usually just use the menus to get to 
> the functionalities they need (argh!).
>
> Power users have long understood that the keyboard is a tool of 
> productivity. Thus, they use keyboard shortcuts widely. As Word and 
> Writer have different sets of shortcuts (at least they had when I left 
> MS-Word alone, a long time ago), it could be an interesting work to port 
> the Word shortcuts into Writer. We could then offer an easy transition 
> that would fill a big gap for these people, helping them to switch tools 
> more quickly.
>
> What do you think? Do I miss something?

IIRC we already have some configuration option for Excel-compatible
shortcuts in Calc. We could do the same with Word/Writer... but a list
of the shortcuts to implement will be needed as I am no Word
power-user ;)

--
Cedric


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