Keyboard shortcuts (was: Re: Ph.D. Candidates and Note Anarchy)

Hung Michael Nguyen nguyenhm16 at mac.com
Sun Dec 12 08:31:24 PST 2004


Reminder: you can change the keyboard shortcut for any menu item that 
you want for any application using the Keyboard & Mouse panel (Keyboard 
Shortcuts tab) in System Preferences.

Mike.

On Dec 12, 2004, at 9:09 AM, A Borg wrote:

>>
>> On Dec 11, 2004, at 2:41 PM, Mark Burgess wrote:
>>
>>> I agree, and something that bugs me about the new OO is the keyboard 
>>> shortcuts for these activities. Move Right used to be simple: cmd-r; 
>>> now it's a complex two-handed chord: cmd-ctrl-arrow. Now, I can 
>>> appreciate using cmd-r for Show Ruler -- it's sort of a standard -- 
>>> but otoh I never use that command and could easily live without the 
>>> shortcut.
>>
>> I agree with this. Up, down, left, right (cmd-U, cmd-D, cmd-L, cmd-R) 
>> are stuck in my brain from More and OO2. Please consider adding a 
>> preference to support these older shortcuts.
>
> Isn't this strange: When using OO2 and NoteTaker at the same time, I 
> constantly stumbled over the cmd-R etc.
> shortcuts, found them awkward at best (Notetaker has tabs). Now with 
> OO3, I automatically reach for cmd-R...
>
> Not wanting to diminish the IMHO great accomplishment that the 
> Omnigroup team has reached with OO3, but
> I think a application specific mechanism to change the shortcuts would 
> be appropriate. I can add from
> the viewpoint of someone using the German keyboard layout that cmd-[ 
> translates into cmd-opt-5, and
> (the here unrelated) cmd-\ into cmd-opt-shift-7. The ablility to 
> change often used keyboard shortcuts to different ones would certainly 
> give me another efficiency boost.
>
> Kei.
>
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