Description: Usually, I could enter codes using Alt command, such as em dash (—) by typing: Alt+0151 on the numeric keypad. I don't have to slow my typing down to grab the mouse and insert a code, and I insert such codes often. Someone must have had the bright idea to map the alt key to the side panel properties bar, because now when I enter alt+0151 with the numlock on, all I do is cycle through the side panel. Please don't make entering alt codes arduous by having us engage a tedious interface to insert the code via menus. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Writer 2. Open the properties side bar, doesn't matter to what. 3. Be sure numlock is active. 4. Type alt+0151 like I did just now to produce: — Actual Results: No text appears. The properties side panel cycles through options. Expected Results: — Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 7.6.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 29d686fea9f6705b262d369fede658f824154cc0 CPU threads: 24; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22631; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded ================================= Side note, not reported correctly above using the copy function on the About dialog. I'm using Windows 11, latest generally available release, not windows 10. Version 23H2 OS Build 22631.23715
the em dash has the hexdecimal code 2013 on my keyboard-layout its available via »altgr-« or 2013followed by »alt c« or ctrl+shift+u2013
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 158112 ***
(In reply to Werner Tietz from comment #1) > the em dash has the hexdecimal code 2013 > on my keyboard-layout its available via > > »altgr-« > or > 2013followed by »alt c« > or > ctrl+shift+u2013 Or in any LibreOffice UI element, type U+2013 (or other Unicode value) and then use <Alt>+x to toggle--MS legacy Alt-Codes were deprecated ages ago. But project may implement a guard for NumPad key scancodes to explicitly support the Alt-Codes (ASCII and Decimal Unicode).
Just a nit, but an important one for me as a writer: 2013 is the en dash, which is shorter than the em dash, at 2014. I can't get the code to work for me using the alt-x way in my browser (Firefox) isn't supporting it. Alt+0151 works in Firefox. alt-x works in notepad. I can type 2013 or 2014 and immediately type alt-x and it converted the number to a symbol. Not as fast as the numpad but I guess I must get used to this. What sucks is that up until very recently, the alt codes were working just fine in liberoffice, and deprecation be damned, alt codes work in every other application I have loaded on this windows machine but firefox and libreoffice.