+1 Agree. On 20 okt. 2015, at 04:36, tonybsa wrote:
> >> On 18/10/2015, at 08:17, James E. Lang <jim+...@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 > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
