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| '''Paste and Match style''' || CMD-SHIFT-OPTION-V<br>''Paste and Match style in Edit -menu'' || -<br>''Paste Special -> Unformatted text in Edit -menu'' || There is no direct command in OOo. CTRL-SHIFT-V activates the paste special dialog. However, the "Paste and Match style" should have shortcut as the text is more intuitive and is very handy when copy-pasting between different documents. | | '''Paste and Match style''' || CMD-SHIFT-OPTION-V<br>''Paste and Match style in Edit -menu'' || -<br>''Paste Special -> Unformatted text in Edit -menu'' || There is no direct command in OOo. CTRL-SHIFT-V activates the paste special dialog. However, the "Paste and Match style" should have shortcut as the text is more intuitive and is very handy when copy-pasting between different documents. | ||
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+ | | '''Open'''<br>''open' || CMD-O<br>''Open '' ||CMD-O<br>''Open''|| AHIG, system-wide standard. | ||
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+ | | '''Print'''<br>''print'' || CMD-P<br>''print '' ||CMD-P<br>''print ''|| AHIG, system-wide standard. | ||
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+ | | '''Save ''' || CMD-S ''save''|| CMD-S ''save'' || AHIG, system-wide standard. | ||
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| '''Save As''' || CMD-SHIFT-S || - || AHIG, system-wide standard. | | '''Save As''' || CMD-SHIFT-S || - || AHIG, system-wide standard. |
Revision as of 22:28, 3 July 2007
Contributors
Introduction
For most of the keyboard shortcuts in OpenOffice.org, the Mac OS X port will follow the other OpenOffice.org platforts, to maintain consistency and allow people to use several platforms without much re-learning.
However, there are some special cases that require Mac OS X port to make exceptions in shortcuts, compared to the other platforms:
- Mac OS X System has global keyboard shortcuts that override existing OpenOffice.org shortcuts
- Apple Human Interface Guidelines (AHIG) requires that all Mac OS X applications define certain common set of shortcuts. That common set might cause a change for shortcut to have different functionality.
Example: Some key accelerators are already used by Mac OS X, and so Mac OS X catches them and does the associated action, causing OpenOffice.org to not see them. For example, when we press F9 in openoffice (native version or X11 version), the fields aren't refreshed, because the Mac OS X function Exposé is launched and catches the key accelerator (to refresh the fields, go to tools>refresh>fields in the menu. What we have to do is to change the conflicting key accelerators for OpenOffice.org.
Mac OS X Shortcuts
The following table describes the differences in keyboard shortcuts and the reasons for the changes. For detailed information, see: Apple Human Interface Guidelines, AHIG for key accelerators and menus and for menu examples
Generic OpenOffice.org | |||
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Functionality | Ideal OpenOffice.org | OpenOffice.org Aqua | Reason |
Main command key | Command (CMD) the "Apple" key |
Command (CMD) the "Apple" key (implementation in progress) |
In Mac OS X, the Command -modifier is the logical equivalent of Control modifier in Windows and Linux |
Function keys | F1 - F12 | - | Function keys in Mac OS X have system-wide functionality (like F9 for Exposé) |
Spotlight search | CMD-Space | - | This shortcut is used system-wide in Mac OS X |
Apple reserved | CMD-Shift-Space | - | This shortcut is used system-wide in Mac OS X (see Apple shortcut documentation) |
Preferences... access to settings |
CMD-, i.e. comma |
CMD-, same shortcut |
AHIG, system-wide standard. Mac OS X: Preferences... in (System-wide) Application menu, i.e. the "Apple-menu" OOo: Tools > Options |
Help | CMD-? i.e. question mark |
F1 | AHIG, system-wide standard |
Undo | CMD-Z | CMD-Z | AHIG, system-wide standard |
Redo | CMD-SHIFT-Z | CMD-Y | AHIG, system-wide standard |
Spellcheck | CMD-; i.e. semicolon |
F7 | AHIG, system-wide standard. Mac OS X: Edit > Spellcheck |
Non-breaking space | Option-Space | CTRL-Space | conflicts with Mac OS X System. See also Wikipedia:Non-breaking space |
Close | CMD-W Close in File -menu |
CTRL-F4 and CTRL-W | AHIG, system-wide standard. OOo: window > Close window with the key accelerator and File > Close without key accelerator. |
Minimize minimize window |
CMD-M Minimize in Window -menu |
?? | AHIG, system-wide standard. |
Hide hide window |
CMD-H Hides the Window |
CMD-H Hides the Window |
AHIG, system-wide standard. |
Copy copy |
CMD-C Copy |
CMD-C Copy |
AHIG, system-wide standard. |
Paste paste |
CMD-H paste |
CMD-V paste |
AHIG, system-wide standard. |
Paste and Match style | CMD-SHIFT-OPTION-V Paste and Match style in Edit -menu |
- Paste Special -> Unformatted text in Edit -menu |
There is no direct command in OOo. CTRL-SHIFT-V activates the paste special dialog. However, the "Paste and Match style" should have shortcut as the text is more intuitive and is very handy when copy-pasting between different documents. |
Open open' |
CMD-O Open |
CMD-O Open |
AHIG, system-wide standard. |
Print |
CMD-P |
CMD-P |
AHIG, system-wide standard. |
Save | CMD-S save | CMD-S save | AHIG, system-wide standard. |
Save As | CMD-SHIFT-S | - | AHIG, system-wide standard. |
Left-align | CMD-{ i.e. left bracket |
CTRL-l | AHIG, system-wide standard |
Right-align | CMD-} i.e. right bracket |
CTRL-r | AHIG, system-wide standard |
Align to center | CMD-| i.e. pipe |
CTRL-e | AHIG, system-wide standard |
Decrease size of the selected item | CMD-- | ?? | AHIG, system-wide standard. Apple Pages: Format > Font > Smaller Equivalent of the Smaller command in OpenOffice.org |
Increase size of the selected item | CMD-+ | ?? | AHIG, system-wide standard. Apple Pages: Format > Font > Bigger Equivalent of the ?? command in OpenOffice.org |
Conditional hyphen | ?? | CTRL-- | conflicts with AHIG |
OpenOffice.org Writer | |||
Functionality | OpenOffice.org Mac OS X | OpenOffice.org | Reason |
Refresh fields | ?? | F9 | Conflicts with Mac OS X system. OOo: Tools > Refresh > Fields |
Style dialog | CMD-SHIFT-T | F11 | Conflicts with Mac OS X system. Apple Pages: View > Show Styles Drawer |
Default format in Format -menu | - | CTRL-SHIFT-Space | Conflicts with Apple reserved shortcut, see Apple shortcut documentation Apple Pages: Format > Reapply Defaults to Selection OOo: Format > Default format |
OpenOffice.org Calc | |||
Functionality | OpenOffice.org Mac OS X | OpenOffice.org | Reason |
Recalculate the cell content | ?? | F9 | Conflicts with Mac OS X system. OOo: Tools > Cell content > Recalculate |
Group (data) | ?? | F12 | Conflicts with Mac OS X system. OOo: Data > Plan > Group |