Re: [libreoffice-users] Shortcut changes

+1
Agree.

On 20 okt. 2015, at 04:36, tonybsa wrote:

> > On 18/10/2015, at 08:17, James E. Lang <jim+lou@lang.hm> wrote:
> >
> > PLEASE, developers, think about the impact your change will have on existing users.  The longer 
> > a shortcut has existed the more attention should be given should be given to the impact of 
> > changing it with shortcuts that have existed for more than one full major release being ALMOST 
> > cast in granite. 
>
> This particular change from F4 to Ctrl-Shift_F4 for data source in Calc but not in Writer is a 
> massive problem. The F4 shortcut has been around for YEARS.
>
> I now have to re-write my tutorials and workshop examples.
> I now have to go back to the hundreds of users that have been using F4 for YEARS and try to 
> explain why there is a difference between Calc & Writer.
>
> A large number of the people (I have trained ) that use LibreOffice use F4 for mail merge in 
> Writer and Pivot Tables in Calc. 
> Because the usual source is a MySQL database where data is being updated on a regular basis, the 
> mail merge and pivot tables need updating regularly.
>
> Why was this change made? 
> As far as I can see (from the bugzilla history) it was requested in 2013 because 1 or 2 people, 
> that are changing from Lotus 123 to Calc could not make the change from F4 to Shift-F4 for the 
> "Absolute cell reference shortcut".
>
> I don't remember any of "my" users having ever found it necessary to change the cell reference 
> from absolute to relative once they have formatted a cell.
>
> So I agree with James Lang & Alexander Thurgood when they decry this change.
> Who made the change 2 years after it was requested, without discussing it with the people on this 
> list?
>
> Developers, please do NOT make changes to existing menu options and shortcuts without FULLY 
> consulting the "professional" users of LibreOffice. 
> Thank you.
>
> Tony Bray
>
>
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