Re: [libreoffice-users] Keyboard shortcuts

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,

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:
> At 20:22 25/07/2016 -0400, Kevin O'Brien wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
> 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
>
>
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