accentuateby Bill Hibbert A macro to facilitate the use of accented and special characters or symbols. It works in OpenOffice Writer so is available for all text documents. It's indispensable if you write in more than one language, and invaluable even if you work only in English (as long as you would like to be able to write résumé or Götterdämmerung or Łódź or use «» or ± or °C in your work without struggling to insert the non-English characters). There are currently around 180 characters available through a single shortcut key, covering most European languages using a Latin alphabet, and including such oddities as the Turkish dotless ı and the Spanish upside down question mark ¿ and the German double-s ß and the Icelandic thorn Þ and so on. The latest version also includes most upper and lower case Greek letters, and some common mathematical symbols. License: notspecified Source code: Browse source code Further product information: Product details Provider: Bill Hibbert
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Efficient and small little helper
Thanks, that works great in writer.
If I have to use it outside of writer I just copy and paste it.
Good but not for all of OOo ?
Good idea this plugin ! Works great in writer (although calling the macro on a a newline throw an error), but does not work in calc... Is it possible to get it to work in calc cells ?
working in calc
Alain
Thanks for the positive comment.
I'm sure you understand that it was never designed to be used on a newline (paragraph character?) so throwing an error is pretty much what you'd expect.
It's not possible to get it to work in calc. Unfortunately there's no way to know the current cursor position in calc (it uses completely different code from writer :-( ) so there's no way to find the pair you want to swap.
That said, I think there's another version of this macro somewhere in the extensions. The guy took my idea and built a ton of other stuff around it, including a way of using it in calc. I haven't ever installed the other version - I only found out about it by accident after I'd tidied this up - but if I understand it correctly there's a horrible kludge that allows you to put a third character in as a marker that the macro can search for. I don't need calc myself so have stuck with this version (the other's about a hundred times bigger) but if it's important to you, that may be a better way to go.
How to use
I have installed the extension.
Now, how do I use it?
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Al Maloney
Using OOo_Dev_DEV300 on Mac OS X 10.5.5
"Velox Versutus Vigilans"
How do I use it
Al, if you use the 'view all releases' link, you should see a link to a set of release notes which will give you full instructions.
Got it. It works for
Got it.
It works for me!
Thanks for the great product.
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Al Maloney
Using OOo_Dev_DEV300 on Mac OS X 10.5.5
"Velox Versutus Vigilans"