Compose Special Characters lets you type two or three characters and then run a macro to convert them into a single accented or special character. Writer and Calc are currently supported.

You can also use a dialog to insert any supported character. The dialog lists all supported characters and the character combinations you use to compose them - once you know the character combination you need for any particular character you don't need to use the dialog. The characters are categorised in the dialog for easier reference.

To open the dialog choose Compose Character... on the Insert menu (Insert > Compose Character...).

You can assign the macro to the keyboard shortcut of your choice via a button on the dialog, or you can manually assign it to whatever key combo you choose via Tools > Customise... > Keyboard.

HOW TO USE

For Text documents:

Type the two composing characters and run the ComposeSpecialChar macro.

For Spreadsheet documents:

Type "¬" plus the two composing characters, then run the ComposeSpecialChar macro. A flag character is required in Calc because currently there doesn't seem to be any way to identify in code where the insertion point is in an OpenOffice spreadsheet cell. Since you might want to insert a special character anywhere in a cell, not just as the last character, the flag character is necessary.

After installing the extension you'll need to close OpenOffice then re-open it to see the new Compose Characters... menu item on the Insert menu.

Operating System: System Independent
Compatible with: OpenOffice.org 2.3 | StarOffice 8 Update 8 or higher.

Official release: 1.1.6

Date: 2008-Aug-07

Size: 31.31 KB

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