To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=47556 Issue #:|47556 Summary:|Special Characters Component:|Word processor Version:|OOo 1.1.4 Platform:|All URL:|http://thereeper.com/symbols.PNG OS/Version:|All Status:|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard:| Keywords:| Resolution:| Issue type:|ENHANCEMENT Priority:|P2 Subcomponent:|editing Assigned to:|linux Reported by:|thereeper
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Apr 15 18:59:37 -0700 2005 ------- I am a long term word perfect user, and I do like a lot of the Open Office features. But the special character selection is lacking. To any one writing scientific work, you need good special characters, such as greek letters, percents, degrees symbolss. In Wp theres a global hotkey, and it has a wide selection of these symbols scientific, mathematic, greek etc. and allows you to type in the name of the character 5,23 (etc for list 5, character 23) which is a VERY handy tool to someone using a lot of characters, in Open office the special characters need a lot of work for writing these type of documents. This could easily be added to the right click menu (which also needs the highlight feature added to it). Overall i'm impressed with Open Office, I just need the special characters. (see picture of corel menu) found the special character features in O --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]