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title="UNCONFIRMED - Insert special characters in v. 6 a regression in usability"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117079">117079</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Insert special characters in v. 6 a regression in usability
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>6.0.3.2 release
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>x86-64 (AMD64)
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Windows (All)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>enhancement
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Writer
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>jondotandrews@fastmail.fm
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<pre>Description:
The changes to the Insert special characters function adds some minor
advantages, but, at least for my purposes created a much greater disadvantage
in 2 ways. 1) I used to be able to repeat the most recently used character by
pressing alt-i, p, [enter] (for some reason, in later v. 5 releases someone
thought it would be good to add an extra [enter] also). Now I have to use the
mouse or hit alt-i, p, [enter], select the character with the mouse again, then
hit [enter] again. 2) I sometimes have to introduce Greek words. Previous to v.
6 I could do the whole word or phrase before leaving the insert special
character dialog. Now I can only do one letter at a time.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press alt-i or click on insert menu
2. Press p or click on Special Character...
3. Select the desired character.
4. Hit [enter] or click on "Insert"
5. The dialog closes and the single letter is inserted in the text
Actual Results:
Works as intended, but that's the problem
Expected Results:
It should be possible to insert several letters or even a phrase without the
dialog having to close. The early 5 versions were much easier to work with.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
Version: 6.0.3.2 (x64)
Build ID: 8f48d515416608e3a835360314dac7e47fd0b821
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default;
Locale: en-US (en_US); Calc: group
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36 OPR/52.0.2871.64</pre>
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