I just tried Alt-148 with OOo Writer 1.1.5 and the "ö" was inserted
exactly where it should be. Seems like your problem is not a OOo bug or
maybe there is a setting somewhere... I use a Swedish keyboard and Alt-148
gives me exactly the same result as the ö key.
An easier way to insert special characters is to use the freeware
AllChars. It also have some more features than just convert stuff like
"Ctrl c o" = "©" etc. You can create macros, like "/ja" = "Johnny
Andersson" or "/time" = "19:00:18" (current time in this case) or
whatever you want it to mean. It works in ALL applications (as far as I
noticed so far).
Have a look at http://allchars.zwolnet.com/
I find it very handy and it's free of course.
Johnny Andersson
Den 2006-01-15 12:55:00 skrev CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Fri January 6 2006 13:57, Gareth Curtis wrote:
Using OOo 2.0.1 with WinXP.
I doubt if I'm the only person in this world who can remember the Alt
numbers of some of the more common special characters, especially those
with accents and umlauts. Besides, using these is often quicker than
fumbling around the Special Character facility on OOo.
One oddity I've noticed with Alt-148 (ö) is that the cursor always seems
to move back such that the character appears before instead of after the
one I've just typed. So far as I remember, this happened with OOo 1.1.x.
(It may also happen with other special characters, but none I routinely
use.)
Is there some reason for this, am I missing something, or is this
(admittedly) a very small bug?
Gareth,
An alternative to using either the Alt sequence or the special Chars
dialog,
is to setup an autocorrect so that when you type "o\:" it is
autocorrected to
ö.
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Johnny
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