Documenting keyboard shortcuts

Hi!

I recently faced the problem of adding a paragraph before an existing table on top of a text document. I got the Writer Guide, chapter on keyboard shortcuts.

However, how to find the proper shortcut in a list of hundreds? Shortcuts are listed by keys in first column and actions on the second. To get the desired shortcut action I had to traverse the second column…

In summary: the second column is not ordered by action.

So I invite team members to rewrite the keyboard shortcut chapters by action instead of keys.

In Writer, list actions divided by document objects. For example

Action: Insert

  • in sections
  • in tables
  • pages
  • paragraphs
  • characters
  • frames, images
  • Styles

Action: Select

  • in table
  • in paragraphs
  • characters, words, end-of line, etc…

Action: Delete

  • In tables
  • sections

Action: Move

  • in tables
  • paragraphs
  • images

Action : View

  • Zoom
  • outline
  • print preview
  • Sidebar/nvavigator

and so on…

Reordering the shortcuts will also be reused in the Help of LibreOffice.

Cheers
Olivier

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Hello Olivier

Good thinking. Definitely needs improving the information for keyboard shortcuts.

Putting action first, then the keyboard shortcut is a good starting point.

Thinking cap is on and will ponder on a new layout for the Impress and Draw appendices…

Regards
PeeWee