[libreoffice-users] Macintosh Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

Hi :slight_smile:
I seem to remember a couple of people here have Macs?  Any idea of how to help this chap with his keyboard issues?

Sorry i know it's bad for me to post a question like this to this list.  If you don't have time to answer the Users List will probably have an answer anyway so don't worry about it.  
Apols and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Hello

I use a Mac and one thing you have to remember is not to use the key marked Ctrl (control), which Windows uses. Mac OS uses the command key for keyboard shortcuts, that is the one each side of the space bar with the funny little graphic. Sometimes has an apple on it also, but that depends on what age your keyboard is.

For example, in MS Office open is Command + O, save as is Shift + Command + S. The MS Office shortcuts follow the Mac OS system and are slightly different to Windows or Linux.

Hope that helps.

Peter Schofield
psauthor@gmail.com

I think the question was more about the shortcuts that he had defined, not the built in ones, and he had defined them to use Alt. I don't have my Mac handy to check whether there is a substitute for Alt (such as Control, which is what he mentions) or if the Alt combinations need to be redefined using something else.

Jean

Hi :slight_smile:
Thanks Jean, Peter and Ken :)  Ken, don't worry about not having answers.  This list is not for answering users questions so don't worry that you couldn't help this time.  The Users List gave the guy an answer too.  So, it's all good.  Thanks all :slight_smile:
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Tom, if the answer on the users list was more helpful, could you share it here? Thanks.
Jean

Hi :slight_smile:
It's not hugely useful right now but it's being discussed there. Sometimes
they ignore a question or launch off into weird rants but once a question
starts getting discussed rationally they usually arrive at a good answer
eventually.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Ps So, so far

Tinkerer wrote

I only use the system short cuts, which appear in the menus.
I have no problems with any of them ,including CMD C and CMD V.

If you create additional keyboard cuts, then these must be "Saved".
Having saved them, they must consequentially be "Loaded" if you wish to
use them.
If the keys you have assigned conflict with system keys, the system key
will be replaced.
That is my understanding, perhaps someone will correct me.

Tink.

Before that was Alex's

Alex Thurgood wrote

I will do some testing, as this is a topic of interest to me as a Mac user. And once we have an answer, I think we should put it into the user guide chapters about customising and perhaps an FAQ (unless it turns out to be something weird about the OP's setup). As you note below, the responses on the users list aren't too useful yet. So often people talk a lot about a different (related) question, not the one that was asked. Has anyone checked on the Mac section of the forum?

Jean

Hi all,

I will do some testing, as this is a topic of interest to me as a Mac user.
And once we have an answer, I think we should put it into the user guide
chapters about customising and perhaps an FAQ (unless it turns out to be
something weird about the OP's setup).

Maybe such a question or Q/A pair is are also something for the new askBot
(http://ask.libreoffice.org)? Did you check already?

Regards, Nino

No, I forgot about that. Good idea. I'm hoping that someone on the users list follow up and find the answer. I can't easily check websites right now, so it falls into the same category as "has anyone checked the forums?" If people wait for me, it may never happen.

Jean

Hi :slight_smile:
AskBOT is still too new so it probably doesn't have much of anything yet.  Larry from the Users List did a search on the OOo forums and found 29 matches for keyboard shortcuts
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/search.php?keywords=keyboard+shortcuts&fid[0]=17

Still not got a really great answer yet though but please leave it to the Users List to hunt around for an answer.
Apols and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Hi everyone,

Ok with my accounts sorted out, I would like to know which resource is being used at the current moment: Alfresco or ODF Authors. I know this was mentioned not too long ago but I just can't seem to find that message.

Thanks,

Bala

Hi Jean,

No, I forgot about that. Good idea. I'm hoping that someone on the users list follow up and find the answer. I can't easily check websites right now, so it falls into the same category as "has anyone checked the forums?" If people wait for me, it may never happen.

There seem to be more niggly problems with OSX Lion than with the
previous versions of OSX. As long as the LibreOffice Mac OSX specific
code remains based on what 10.4 can do, and does not take into account
the latest Apple interface developments, then the problems will only get
worse.

Alex

For work on 3.4.x, use ODF for the present time. We will be migrating
back to Alfresco in a couple of weeks.

--Dan

Hi :slight_smile:
I think it is still ODFAuthors. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Righto! Working through ODF and looking at the 'Review List' on the left. How do I go about starting off with one of the tasks posted there? I have downloaded one of the documents and currently am looking through it:0112GS34-CreatingWebPages_JHW_14Feb12.odt

Thanks guys!

Regards
Bala

Have you read the instructions here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development#First_steps_with_the_Documentation_team

In particular, the document "Producing LibreOffice User Guides"
includes a section on what to look for in a review, as well as
information about creating and inserting illustrations and other
topics.

--Jean