<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 22:13 +0100, Hugo Heden wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On 11/5/07, NoOp <<A HREF="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</A>> 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. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> 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. </BODY> </HTML>