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30 Special Characters
To insert Special Characters, go to menu Insert › Special Character. If you need a
particular character or even a complete string of characters very often, say “[…]”, and don’t
want to keep on typing the sequence out, you can mark it once, go to Tools › AutoCor­
rect Options and type in on the left hand side under Replace a simple sequence of
simple letters such as “xxx”. Then press New and confirm with OK. Now your off. Every
time you write “ xxx ” with a leading space and a space after, it will automatically get replaced
by a “[…]”.
31 Mouse Clicks
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a double-click will mark a whole word
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a triple-click will mark a complete sentence
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a quadruple-click will mark a complete paragraph
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a right-click will offer you a context menu
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click-hold-and-pull on a marked area allows you to relocate it
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in combination with Ctrl you can mark several non-adjacent passages
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in combination with Alt you can mark a rectangular text block
32 Shortcuts
OpenOffice Writer has a bunch of shortcuts to make life easier:
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Ctrl + 0 the paragraph in which the cursor is standing will change to Text Body
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Ctrl + 1 the paragraph in which the cursor is standing will change to Heading 1
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Ctrl + 2 the paragraph in which the cursor is standing will change to Heading 2
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Ctrl + 3 the paragraph in which the cursor is standing will change to Heading 3
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Ctrl + 4 the paragraph in which the cursor is standing will change to Heading 4
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Ctrl + i marked text will change to italics
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Ctrl + b marked text will change to bold
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Ctrl + m marked text will loose all individual formatting – only the paragraph style
will remain active
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Ctrl + s save file
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Ctrl + p print file