Bug 115293 - Improve shortcut keys in Calc
Summary: Improve shortcut keys in Calc
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2018-01-29 10:22 UTC by Olivier Hallot
Modified: 2018-08-01 08:17 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Olivier Hallot 2018-01-29 10:22:37 UTC
Description:
Received in documentation alias maail

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Dear Madam / Sir

I am a financial consultant and have core expertise of spreadsheet financial modeling. Although I won't be able to make many contributions. However, I can indicate one of the key attractions MS Excel has for spreadsheet modelers.

As a financial modeler, always prefer to use shortcut keys. I have used many free spreadsheets and what I found lacking is the convenience of shortcut keys for which MS Excel has an unmatched advantage.

In my view, Excel's scheme of shortcut keys is one of the major factors of its fame, as users are quite used to of these keys for a long time and get confused when a different shortcut key is available for same function and get reluctant to migrate. I can recall that Alt+= gives "sum" function automatically in Excel but not in other open spreadsheets. Likewise, Alt+[ sends a modeller to the source link of a function, I found this function missing from free spreadsheets. Although it may seem a little functionality difference. But when an excel user will use Libreoffice, he will be reluctant due to this small inconvenience which is something important for such user.

So you can work out such differences which irritate conventional users of MS Office, while using free office apps and it will be one of the game changers.

I really appreciate the free software effort. However, there are quite obvious things to beat proprietary apps, but which to my surprise are not worked out. As front end-user having experience of quite diversified of app portfolio (SAP, Oracle, MFGPro, BPCS, Sage, Quickbooks, Focus, AS/400, BIs and numerous office apps from lotus 123 till Excel 2016), for me this one factor is the second most sensitive and affects directly to the user-friendliness of the application besides the software environment (which in my view is the most important factor).

Best regards.

Muhammad Ali Sadiq
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Steps to Reproduce:
see description above

Actual Results:  
NO shortcut keys for most used spreadsheet functions

Expected Results:
set of new spreadsheet keys for financial usage




Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Actually it can be implemented through keyboard customization, but the idea is to have it as application default.


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Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2018-01-30 09:15:37 UTC
It's a very unspecific comment. Most shortcuts should be the same, and we have an awesome customization. Voting for WONTFIX, unless the OP provides more input.
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2018-07-31 09:38:10 UTC
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