cannot record macros in LibreOffice3

Asked by Jose Gregoire

I have now Ubuntu 11.04 with Linux 2.6.38-8 and LibreOffice3. In the writing text program, under Tools / Macros the command Record Macros stays in gray and cannot be used. What should I do to enable it or otherwise record user-made macros ?

What I intend to do is to put some special characters on some combinations of keys on my keyboard, for example the French c with cedilla (in the table of special characters Times New Roman 11th row, 7th column) in connexion with the Alt+c combination. I think to macros + keyboard shortcuts because in LibreOffice there is, as far as I know, no direct possibility to assign a character to a keyboard key. (I need to use this particular character often because I must often write in French and I have a German keyboard)

I looked in Ubuntu Software Center for a down-load but did not find any that, as far as I could see, would be convenient

Many thanks for your help.

Jose Gregoire

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said :
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Hi

Go to the Ubuntu Help, scroll down to Tips & Trips, select that, then look at Enter Special Characters. Most useful to you is the section on using the Compose key. This is a useful way of typing accented characters without having to record macros, etc.

Hope this helps.

Tony

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said :
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Hi

Go to the Ubuntu Help, scroll down to Tips & Trips, select that, then look at Enter Special Characters. Most useful to you is the section on using the Compose key. This is a useful way of typing accented characters without having to record macros, etc.

Hope this helps.

Tony

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said :
#3

Hi

Go to the Ubuntu Help, scroll down to Tips & Trips, select that, then look at Enter Special Characters. Most useful to you is the section on using the Compose key. This is a useful way of typing accented characters without having to record macros, etc.

Hope this helps.

Tony

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said :
#4

Hi

Go to the Ubuntu Help, scroll down to Tips & Trips, select that, then look at Enter Special Characters. Most useful to you is the section on using the Compose key. This is a useful way of typing accented characters without having to record macros, etc.

Hope this helps.

Tony

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said :
#5

Hi

Go to the Ubuntu Help, scroll down to Tips & Trips, select that, then look at Enter Special Characters. Most useful to you is the section on using the Compose key. This is a useful way of typing accented characters without having to record macros, etc.

Hope this helps.

Tony

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said :
#6

Hi

Go to the Ubuntu Help, scroll down to Tips & Trips, select that, then look at Enter Special Characters. Most useful to you is the section on using the Compose key. This is a useful way of typing accented characters without having to record macros, etc.

Hope this helps.

Tony

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said :
#7

Hi

Go to the Ubuntu Help, scroll down to Tips & Trips, select that, then look at Enter Special Characters. Most useful to you is the section on using the Compose key. This is a useful way of typing accented characters without having to record macros, etc.

Hope this helps.

Tony

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said :
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Sorry, about the duplication -dont know why it happened.

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Jose Gregoire (josegregoirep) said :
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Hi ! Thank you for your answer.
I am sorry, I have learn something quite interesting with the solution you
proposed (compose key) ; unfortunately, it doesn't seem to solve this
particular problem because:
- a big deal of my problem would be solved if the list of composed
characters in Wikipedia worked ; I tried the compose key procedure, but
unfortunately it doesn't seem to work on my computer.
- I am occasionally busy with foreign languages like tibetan or sanskrit, in
which only a part of the characters are directly connected with keys, but
the other part not (maybe one third or a quarter of the characters would
make a recurse to the special characters table necessary).

I had OpenOffice before and the solution with macros allowed me to connect
any special character to a chosen key.As you say, il is a bit cumbersome to
install, but quite satisfying when used. I think I could do with macros and
I would like it.

Sorry and thanks !

José Grègoire

2011/7/9 Tony Pursell <email address hidden>

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> Tony Pursell proposed the following answer:
> Hi
>
> Go to the Ubuntu Help, scroll down to Tips & Trips, select that, then
> look at Enter Special Characters. Most useful to you is the section on
> using the Compose key. This is a useful way of typing accented
> characters without having to record macros, etc.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Tony
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Best xoristzatziki (simsonbike-bugs) said :
#10

Go to "Menu => Tools => Options => Libre Office => General" and check "Enable Experimental (unstable) Features"

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Jose Gregoire (josegregoirep) said :
#11

Problem solved. Thank you.