In Writer 4.0 User Guide (English) it is stated that the keystroke combination Alt+Ctrl+C inserts a new comment (page 102). Actually, the keystrokes are ignored.
tested with 4.1.2.3 under Win7 64bit. the Ctrl+Alt+C combination works as expected in my PC. which LibO version are you using? which O/S? if you click the "insert" do you see "Ctrl+Alt+C" next to the "Comment" item?
O/S: Win 7 64 bit, running on an i5, 4-core processor (Intel). LibO Version: 4.1.3.2. And yes, "Ctrl+Alt+C" is shown next to the "Comment" option in the "Insert" menu. Works as it should if I click over there with the mouse; but the keyboard sequence fails to do its assigned task. Regards. Humberto Elizondo. El Lunes, 4 de noviembre, 2013 21:29:01, "bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org" <bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org> escribió: tommy27 changed bug 71237 What Removed Added Status UNCONFIRMED NEEDINFO CC barta@quipo.it Summary Keyboard shortcut failure insert new comment shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+C) failure Ever confirmed 1 Comment # 1 on bug 71237 from tommy27 tested with 4.1.2.3 under Win7 64bit. the Ctrl+Alt+C combination works as expected in my PC. which LibO version are you using? which O/S? if you click the "insert" do you see "Ctrl+Alt+C" next to the "Comment" item? ________________________________ You are receiving this mail because: * You reported the bug.
what if you click menu "tools / customize / keyboard" and try locating that key combination? do you see it assigned to the "insert comment" action?
Affirmative; that particular keystroke combination is assigned. Just it it reads "comment", not "insert comment"; but I think that should not make any difference. Humberto Elizondo. El Martes, 5 de noviembre, 2013 9:12:30, "bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org" <bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org> escribió: tommy27 changed bug 71237 What Removed Added Status NEEDINFO UNCONFIRMED Version unspecified 4.1.3.2 rc Ever confirmed 1 Comment # 3 on bug 71237 from tommy27 what if you click menu "tools / customize / keyboard" and try locating that key combination? do you see it assigned to the "insert comment" action? ________________________________ You are receiving this mail because: * You reported the bug.
@bug reporter: please do not reply the emails you receive with every new comment made in this bug report, but browse to it (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71237) and leave a comment over there. This reduces the noise :). Thanks Ontopic on the report: A possibility is the fact this interrupt (keystrokes) is already associated with something related to your OS (or at least a 'higher application then LibreOffice'). Easy explained: that key stroke can't pass to LibreOffice because it is taken by another service of/in Windows. Not sure how to fix it, or what service/application interfere. Kind regards, Joren
Thanks, Joren. I guess you are right; Windows must be intercepting this keystroke combination, so it is not available to LibreOffice. Regrettably, I have not been able to prove this conclusively. Anyhow, it became clear that this is not a bug in LibreOffice. I have been trying, meanwhile, to reach a conclusion on this matter, but sadly I have to say I've not succeeded. I tested the {Ctrl+Alt+C} combination on another machine, and worked as expected. This had an earlier release of LibO, 4.0.0.3, running under Windows 7 Home Basic. For a while, I thought I had found the trouble, for I am using the US International keyboard setting. For the most part, it behaves as a standard US keyboard; however, it includes additional characters not available in the standard keyboard. For instance, æ, ö, ø, ñ, ß, ç, to name a few. Most of these characters are displayed onscreen after some keystroke combination is struck. {Ctrl+Alt+Z}, for example, yields æ. It occurred to me that perhaps {Ctrl+Alt+C} was being used by Windows for the ç character to show up. Not so; actually, this is done with {Ctrl+Alt+,} (that's a comma, at the end). {Ctrl+Alt+C} doesn't seem to do anything; I got suspicious, all the same, and turned over to the standard US keyboard, to no avail. This same keystroke sequence is used in Calc to insert a comment in a cell, and of course it doesn't work, either. Since Tommy27 reported that the combination worked allright for him, having tested it on LibO 4.1.2.3, I downgraded to that version to see if that cleared the trouble; it was not so. Finally, I ended assigning a different keystroke combination to this function. I have few programs installed on my machine, for it is relatively new; there's no other program that could be regarded as a "higher application" than LibreOffice, to my knowledge. Personally, I still think my keyboard setting has some connection to the problem. Pressing {Alt+C} makes a brief, tinkling sound. It doesn't happen so with {Ctrl+Alt+C}, nevertheless. Best regards, Humberto Elizondo.
I mark this ad RESOLVED NOTOURBUG. feel free to reopen if you do not agree with this decision.
No, I won't challenge your decision. I'm grateful to you as well, Tommy. Regards.
A last and not likely possibility is to reset your user profile of LibreOffice. This is quite 'machine-specific' and as far I know there are some personal settings stored. So, long story short, it _might_ help but is really unlikely in my honest opinion. See https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile#Resolving_corruption_in_the_user_profile (the location of your user profile folder is explained a little higher on that page). Kind regards, Joren
Thanks again, Joren. I'll give it a try, as soon as I get acquainted with the LibreOffice Profile. Regards. H. Elizondo