[NA]LibreOffice Writer shortcut keys[NA]

[Let'sgoflying!]

Is there really no shortcut key to increase the font of an entire document?

 

[Sac Arrow]

I'm not sure Word has such an animal either. But select-all and choose font size is pretty fast.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

I'm not sure Word has such an animal

it does but maybe LO would get sued for copying their app too closely if they did.

 

[Clark1961]

it does but maybe LO would get sued for copying their app too closely if they did.

So write a macro to select all and increase the font size one pt. Assign a keyboard shortcut to said macro. Done. I'm guessing 10 minutes to do it.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

OK, I'll give it a go.
Guess I'll start with googling macros.

 

[Clark1961]

OK, I'll give it a go.
Guess I'll start with googling macros.

Open office uses a Visual Basic copy for it's macro language. I also has a record feature so you can get started by recording your actions.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

well the 10 minutes didn't work out for me.
almost 3 hours now, still no macro
Sort of like predicting an airplane repair job!

 

[Clark1961]

sub IncFont
rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem define variables
dim document as object
dim dispatcher as object
rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem get access to the document
document = ThisComponent.CurrentController.Frame
dispatcher = createUnoService("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper")

rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:SelectAll", "", 0, Array())

rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:Grow", "", 0, Array())


end sub

 

[Clark1961]

Used the recorder to do that. Copy/paste into a module and you should be good to go.

 

[Sac Arrow]

I can do a select all, apply font quicker than you guys can run the macro.

 

[Clark1961]

I can do a select all, apply font quicker than you guys can run the macro.

Yabut you're special

 

[denverpilot]

I can do a select all, apply font quicker than you guys can run the macro.

Would that be because you use CTRL-A for the first step?

 

[Sac Arrow]

Would that be because you use CTRL-A for the first step?

Actually I'm not big on shortcut keys, and I generally don't modify fonts that way anyhow because for 95% of the work I do, I need to rigorously let the styles control the format, and that's both for technical reports and ebook production.

 

[flhrci]

Yabut you're special

Clark, you are special to. I just wanted you to know that.

 

[Clark1961]

Clark, you are special to. I just wanted you to know that.

Nobodyhaseversaidthattomebefore.

 

[flhrci]

Nobodyhaseversaidthattomebefore.

Probablywillneverhappenagain.

 

[Clark1961]

Probablywillneverhappenagain.

Howmanytimes?

 

[SCCutler]

Sigh.

Why I still prefer (and use) WordPerfect.

So. Much. Better.

Gonna be forced into Microsoft Turd soon, I fear.

 

[denverpilot]

Sigh.

Why I still prefer (and use) WordPerfect.

So. Much. Better.

Gonna be forced into Microsoft Turd soon, I fear.

Hurry up and join us in the slow slide into crappy software everywhere, Spike. You're missing all the fun.

 

[gkainz]

Sigh.

Why I still prefer (and use) WordPerfect.

So. Much. Better.

Gonna be forced into Microsoft Turd soon, I fear.

I used to know all the WP keyboard shortcuts but alas, they've all been purged from memory ... and Lotus 123 shortcuts as well ... all I remember is they started with slash ... or was it backslash?

 

[denverpilot]

I used to know all the WP keyboard shortcuts but alas, they've all been purged from memory ... and Lotus 123 shortcuts as well ... all I remember is they started with slash ... or was it backslash?

I can't remember. All I can think of are the ones from emacs.

 

[gkainz]

I can't remember. All I can think of are the ones from emacs.

Emacs - the only editor so obtuse that it tells you how to exit upon entering.

Now eve with tpu was power-editing.

 

[Sac Arrow]

I can't remember. All I can think of are the ones from emacs.

I figured you would be a whiz with the VI editor. I think I've used EDT and EVE when working with the VAX. The thing was a dinosour even when the school was still using it.

 

[gkainz]

I figured you would be a whiz with the VI editor. I think I've used EDT and EVE when working with the VAX. The thing was a dinosour even when the school was still using it.

That dinosaur VAX-8000 was the state of the art, smoking hot processor when I worked on it. On a couple different projects I was on, it hosted the source code for the E-2 Hawkeye ATDS, the testing suite for the E-2 PDS, the reliability and QA performance databases for Air Launched missile systems, including Harm, Harpoon, Sparrow, AMRAAM, etc ...

 

[denverpilot]

I figured you would be a whiz with the VI editor. I think I've used EDT and EVE when working with the VAX. The thing was a dinosour even when the school was still using it.

I do vi, emacs is long dead to me. I had to convert religions from emacs to vi long long ago.

Emacs really was mostly uMacs for me, under Microware OS/9, then vi or more often, vim on Linux systems.