special character shortcut

diegoemme · Newbie Joined: 01 Mar 2011 Posts: 3

Hi,
I am looking for a shortcut which allows me to insert special characters (such as guillemets or angle quotes). I'd like to avoid ASCII as these are a bit inconvenient on a laptop...any suggestion?
Thank you very much
Diego

Robert Tucker · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:00 am Post subject:

Try:

http://user.services.openoffice.org/fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11985

Also check out the this extension:

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/insecable
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diegoemme · Newbie Joined: 01 Mar 2011 Posts: 3

thanks, but it is not what I was looking for...as I would like to choose when to use classic inverted commas or angle quotes...in Italian we use both depending on the context...

Robert Tucker · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:04 am Post subject:

You can use the macro here:

http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Writer/Writer.InsertUnicodeCharacter.snip

and assign a shortcut to it.

Is it only guillemets/angle quotes you are interested in?
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diegoemme · Newbie Joined: 01 Mar 2011 Posts: 3

thanks, that should work. actually there are a bunch of other special characters I would like to insert with a shortcut...

jrkrideau · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:03 am Post subject: Re: special character shortcut

Robert Tucker · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:19 pm Post subject: Re: special character shortcut