Customize>Keyboard>Edit is insufficient. See appended list of sometimes very old related and existing bugs. None of this bugs complains about the missing possibility to assign free key sequences additional to static key shortcut combinations. Implementation requires a state machine to the keyboard input and there are several other editors who do this very nice. This feature typically allows (at least partly) emulation of other editors. Customization result allows configurations far away from Windows default UI style. Once implemented, it can also used to realize any OS or other user flavour editors typical behaviour. Going back to the roots, the DOS StarWriter by Marco Börries StarDivision was in fact a Wordstar clone who makes extensive use of those shortcut key sequences. Very effective speed editing without any mouse. Some examples of other editors keymap customizations: Ultra Edit implemented key sequence feature in latest versions. See one of the discussions about here: http://forums.ultraedit.com/emacs-keybindings-t1875-s10.html Textmaker is a modern UI multi OS editor what shows nice implementation of the customize keyboard dialog including free key sequences. For testing, please use the demo version of Textmaker included in Softmaker Office. Avoid testing Textmaker included in FreeOffice. FreeOffice disabled this feature in latest version 2018 while there was a setup for predefined "classic" keymap until version 2016. Eclipse is a modern multi OS IDE what shows nice implementation of customize keybard dialog including free key sequences. Download to test with default editor is sufficient, no plugin required. For example of Eclipse custom keymap plugin configuration, see the IntelliJ keymap project on github. There are existing Word capabilities but I wont discuss them here. Related bugs: 115527 Redesign of the keyboard tab of the Customization dialog 70568 Java add-on function inaccessible from Shortcuts Dialog 91724 LO docu is not accessible for blind people 46137 UI: Allow to assign custom keyboard shortcuts 49091 UI: Alt-Left, Alt-Right keyboard shortcuts ineffective 107244 [META] Ctrl+Alt (aka AltGR) keyboard shortcut issues 128537 Fatal Error with accidental CMD + ² key combination 55838 ctrl + end does not jump to end of document 35030 Customize Keyboard Reset button doesn't work 43822 Ctrl+W does not close, and Ctrl+S does not save 82117 Improve shortcut key list for German keyboard layout 88474 EDITING: Selection Mode is Reset to ‘Standard selection’ with Esc 102307 F3 executes uno:RepeatSearch from the FindBar 41560 Customize Dialog Keyboard 45705 Cant assign shortcuts to "Zoom in" and "Zoom out" commands 52335 The GUI for assigning keyboard shortcuts to functions is not intuitive 66975 Option to keep cursor vertically centered in viewport 83538 Indication when a keyboard shortcut is set globally 114133 Combinations with tab key missing in the customization 107282 Deleted customized shortcuts still working 92700 Customize Dialog: Tab Keyboard: missing tool tip 115052 Allow other keys than from US keyboard as shortcut keys
(In reply to Janvi from comment #0) > ...to assign free key sequences That's bug 115052. And you are absolutely right, it's definitely needed and therefore on the list of tasks for GSoC, however neither a student is interested nor a mentor volunteered so far https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas_without_a_mentor#Keyboard_customization The design team made a proposal regarding the UI at https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/01/22/how-to-make-libreoffice-customization-usable/. And last but not least some work in ongoing to improve the UI https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/90183 though not reworking the internal assignment. > Ultra Edit..., Textmaker..., Eclipse... Take also a look on how KDE handles this https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/applications/fundamentals/shortcuts.html *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 115052 ***