Openoffice a frustration on Gutsy

[Dean Davidson]

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 22:13 +0100, Hugo Heden wrote:

> On 11/5/07, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > On 11/05/2007 02:02 PM, Johann Spies wrote:
> > > My wife does not love computers. She is a science teacher that uses
> > > her computer to draw up notes, exam papers etc. Her most important
> > > programs are Openoffice, an email client and a web browser.  To her it
> > > is just a tool to get the job done.
> > >
> > > Her computer with Dapper on was stolen a few weeks ago (IBM Thinkpad
> > > R31).  I installed Gutsy on her new Lenovo R60e.
> > >
> > > Today was her first experience of using Openoffice on Gutsy and she
> > > ended the day in frustration.  Two problems (that I could not repeat
> > > on my Debian Lenny computer with the same OO version) was that when
> > > she used the shortcut for subscripts or superscripts (used a lot in
> > > Chemistry papers) she could not get back to normal characters using
> > > the same shortcut (Ctl_Shift_B - e.g. for subscripts) to toggle the
> > > subscripts off.  The same happened when she use bold while typing.
> > > There was no simple way to get out of bold. In both cases the toggle
> > > function did not seem to work.
> > >
> > > I have seen that the subscript-thing was a bug but it was reported as
> > > solved.  I did upgrade openoffice to one of a few days ago from Ubuntu
> > > repositories.
> > >
> > > It is just not acceptable that a product that should be ready for
> > > production produces so much frustration.
> > >
> > > Fortunately Evolution so far worked without serious problems.  On
> > > Dapper it was so buggy that I replaced it by Thunderbird which is also
> > > not the best email client I have seen. (Unfortunately my wife would
> > > not use mutt :)
> > >
> > > If there is no quick solution to this problem I am afraid I am going
> > > to say goodby to Ubuntu.  For my own desktop I have already moved back
> > > to Debian some time ago.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Johann
> >
> > Do as you wish, but I'd recommend that you ask if other users are
> > experiencing the same problem before getting too excited.
> >
> > I just tried Ctl_Shift_B in Gutsy (U)OOo 2.3 and it works just fine
> > (both on and off).
> >
> > Now, perhaps if you come back & rephrase others may be willing to help
> > further.
> >
> 
> Yes, Ctrl-Shift-B works for me too, both on and of. Likewise for Ctrl-B.
> 

I have OOo 2.0.2 on Dapper.  Ctrl + Shift + P works for superscript, but
Ctrl + Shift + B puts a "B" on the screen.  Then, when I type another
numeral or letter, "B" is merely replaced with a normal script of the
numeral I type.  This is on a new document.  I tried re-doing the
keyboard shortcut (Tools menu => Customize. . . => Keyboard), but it
yielded the same result.  For now I am using the toolbar button provided
on the Formatting Toolbar for Subscript.
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