Bug 107290 - Keyboard modifier selection mode not mentioned
Summary: Keyboard modifier selection mode not mentioned
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.4.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Rafael Lima
URL:
Whiteboard: target:7.3.0
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Blocks: Help-Changes-Features
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Reported: 2017-04-20 11:57 UTC by Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired)
Modified: 2021-09-06 13:31 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-04-20 11:57:47 UTC 
It is possible to temporarily enable selection modes with ctrl, alt and shift, so this should be mentioned in help.

https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Selection_Mode
Comment 1 Rafael Lima 2021-08-30 13:12:03 UTC 
Relevant help page:
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/02/20050000.html?DbPAR=SHARED#bm_id3148668

As an update to this issue:
1) The F8 shortcut for "Extending Selection" is no longer valid, since by default LO is assigning F8 to the "Select Cycle" command. In this case "shift" is the modifier.
2) Shift+F8 works for "Adding Selection" and "Ctrl" is the temporary modifier
3) Ctrl+Shift+F8 works for "Block Selection" and "Alt" is the temporary modifier.
Comment 2 Commit Notification 2021-08-31 15:58:38 UTC 
Rafael Lima committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/1e7954968f401bf69434c1c53701da335d0a63f2

tdf#107290 Update "Selection Mode" help page