OO function key short cut "F11"

Greg Bair gregbair at gmail.com
Mon May 10 02:31:31 UTC 2010


Graham Todd wrote:
> On Sun, 09 May 2010 20:36:37 +0100
> John D Lamb <J.D.Lamb at btinternet.com> uttered these words:
>
>   
>> On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 22:49 +0530, H.S.Rai wrote: 
>>     
>>> On upgrading to Lucid, found change in shortcuts, F11 used to open
>>> "Style and formatting", but now it is for "full screen mode". Why
>>> such changes?  
>>>       
>> There are still some who treat a wordprocessor as if it were a
>> typewriter. The Styles and Formatting menu has no meaning for them
>> because they don’t know what styles or formatting are. But full screen
>> makes sense because they don’t use any useful features anyway.
>>     
> [snipped]
>
> With the greatest of respect, the reply doesn't answer the OP's
> original question.  He asked *WHY* F11 now opens "Full Screen Mode"
> instead of "Style and Formatting" under Lucid.
>
> I don't know why, either. There's been a number of changes to the Gnome
> desktop under Lucid that appear to be more due to branding than
> usefulness - take the window controls being moved from right to left.
> Could this be the reason for the change in OpenOffice under Lucid?
>
>   
I would think it's an OO change, not Ubuntu.  Although, it's pretty 
standard nowadays in most applications that F11 does full screen.

However, you can change this.  In OO, go to Tools->Customize, go to the 
keyboard tab, and you can reassign function key mappings.




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