Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing a 'hot key' assignment

Hi William,

William W. Austin schrieb:
[..]
> The assignnment of the key to bring up search and replace.
>
> Basically they hate the change.
>
> Now instead of a<CTRL>F they have to hit<CTRL><ALT>F instead, and
> while from my background as a programmer that seems a trivial change, I
> have had over 70 complaints about this in the last week alone (and 13
> more today). Secretaries, admin. assistants, and managers DON'T like
> change.

<Ctrl>F now sets the Cursor into the input-field of the toolbar Find. 
The setting is for all LibO not only for Writer.

> So I have gone through the documentation and tried the various
> "options" available, but I don't see any way to give them what they
> want (<CTRL>F = find/search and replace), without editing the code,
> changing it there, and recompiling it myself.  I have to find a
> solution soon as one of the complaints is from a 'management' type who
> is 4 levels higher than I am.  He says to have it for him on Monday
> (PERIOD).
>
> Is there a simpler solution? (replacing the users is NOT an option,
> however desirable...)

You can assign <Ctrl>F to "find&replace" via dialog "Customize" as it 
has been since the beginning. But this will hide the feature of setting 
the cursor into the input field of the toolbar Find.

Kind regards
Regina

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