OpenOffice Keyboard Shortcut needed

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Hi all,

Was wondering what the keyboard shortcut is for entering the date in OOCalc.

I know in Excel it is “Ctrl” & “Semi Colon” key.

Thanks

Heeter

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Help> Shortcut keys leads you to the full list.

There isn’t a direct equivalent to the one you want but Tools>Optimise>Keyboard allows you to create one.

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Heeter wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Was wondering what the keyboard shortcut is for entering the date in
> OOCalc.
>
> I know in Excel it is “Ctrl” & “Semi Colon” key.
>
> Thanks
>
> Heeter
>
>
You’re looking for the ability to insert the date (C-:wink: and time (C-S-:wink:
with a single keypress.

Alas, openoffice isn’t that much of an exact dup of MS Office. But then
again, OpenOffice isn’t MS Office either.

You could create a macro/‘basic’ function to do what you want, then assign
it a keystroke. This person has created a macro to do just that:

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/DateTime2

–
L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com

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Hi

Thanks for the link

WOuld you, by chance know to use/enable this macro?

I am kind of a noob when it comes to this.

Thanks

Heeter

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Heeter wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> Thanks for the link
>
> WOuld you, by chance know to use/enable this macro?
>
>
> I am kind of a noob when it comes to this.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Heeter
>
>

No idea really how to enable it. To me, it’s not a useful macro and I have
no need to deal with it… There should be instructions at the link, or in
the download file.

–
L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com

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There is an openoffice quick starter as prog and icon for the systray.
Why not use that ?