Sunday, August 22, 2010

OpenOffice Howto: Paste Unformatted Text Shortcut Key

I know OpenOffice is not just for Linux but I've all but replaced MS Office with it even at work (I still have to have Outlook for email).  What I wanted was a way to quickly copy and paste unformatted text.  I know there is already a shortcut key combo for this but it's awkward ( CTRL ALT SHIFT V)  That's 4 Keys!!!  Too many.  

Here's what I did to fix this.  Start OpenOffice Writer then goto Tools --> Customize. Select the Keyboard tab from the Customize window that popped up (Pictured below).   Select Edit in the bottom left list.  Then select "Paste Unformatted Text" from the bottom right list and finally assign the keyboard shortcut you want it to be from the top list.



I notice that the F4 key (Function Key F4) is unassigned so I used it and went from a 4 key combo to 1.