Tibor cook wrote:
I am using v 2.0.2 Open Office. The platform is WindosXP Professional. I am
a Hungarian speaker in an English speaking country. To use special
characters amounts to a chicken pecking at grains. Is there a keyboard
short-cut system where (sorry to say: as in Microsoft Office) keyboard
charcaters can be combined with either ALT or CTRL keys to facilitate easy
sellection of special characters on an English key-board? This would allow
easy flow of typing without having to purchase a keyboard from another
country.
There are bi-lingual users and such short-cut facility would be a god-sent.
e.g. a short cut run by either visual basic or C++.:
รก = CRTL + ' + a
This would stop me using MS Office altogether. At the moment I am writing
text in one, past and copy into Open Office to have it spell checked.
Two different solutions:
1. ) For Hungarian specifically, go to the Windows Start Menu, Select
"Control Panel", and in that select the "Languages" Tab and click on the
"Details" button. In the dialog box that pops up, select "Add". Under
"Input Language" select Hungarian. Under "Keyboard layout/IME:" also
select Hungarian. Press the "Ok" button. You now have an Hungarian
keyboard driver installed as well as your regular keyboard driver and
you can switch between them at will. You can press the "Key Settings"
button to set particular short-cut keys to switch between the drivers if
you want.
You can also install other additional drivers for other languages you
may want.
2. ) The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator is available at
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx . This utility
allows you to create and install your own customized keyboard drivers.
You could create a new version of your normal driver to provides the
extra characters you commonly use.
Both of these solutions allow you to use the same keyboard combinations
in every program, rather than often having to define separate shortcut
keys in different programs (for those programs that even allow this).
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further questions only to users@openoffice.org .
Jallan
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