On Friday 29 January 2010 07:14:31 pm Doug McGarrett wrote:
In Open Office Writer, there is a large table of special characters, and if you snap on one, it comes up with a format like this:
U+00A9 (169)
which is the copyright symbol. Now supposing you're writing something that will refer to copyrighted material often, probably there is a way to use the code "U+00A9 (169)" somehow to avoid having to go back to the table and find the symbol every time. I have been unable to figure out how to do that. It was easy in WordPerfect, which had similar tables; you hit ^W and the number, and it emplaced the symbol in the text. There must be a way to do the same sort of thing in OO. So how?
Doug, Not exactly what you asked, but have a look at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ComposeSpecialCharacters Also, for the copyright symbol at least, try 1) Hold down right shift, press right control, then release both 2) type the keys 'o' and then 'c' Many other characters are available this way. -- D©n -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org