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<div>All,</div><div><br /></div><div><span>I am a member of the Documentation Team, currently helping to update the Calc Guide. I have found a system behaviour that I don’t understand and wondered whether anybody could explain what is going on?</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>My keyboard has two Control keys, one located at the bottom left and one located a few keys to the right of the space bar. I had assumed that they would be interchangeable and that I would be able to use either when a Ctrl key was to be pressed. However this assumption appears not to be valid in some cases.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>An example where my assumption holds can be found by </span><span>pressing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F3, which is intended to be equivalent to </span><span>selecting Sheet > Named Ranges and Expressions > Manage in Calc’s Menu bar. Both methods display the Manage Names dialog. In this case I can use either of my Control keys, the shortcut works for both.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>By way of counterexample, the Calc keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F2 is intended to be equivalent to selecting Insert > Function in the Menu bar and both should display the Function Wizard dialog. However using my left Control key, Ctrl+F2 appears to do nothing, while using the right key, Ctrl+F2 displays the Function Wizard dialog as expected. This behaviour is identical for my native Windows 10 version of Calc and for a Linux version running in a virtual terminal through VMWare.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>So in summary, is there a technical reason why my two Control keys are not always interchangeable?</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>Regards, </span></div><div><br /></div><div>Steve Fanning</div></body></html>