Works with Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 OpenOffice.org (until 2.1 version included) Works with Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 (during 2007) Works with Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 (during 2007) New features coming with the Aqua version of OpenOffice.org ( 3.x ) FIXME: add screenshots. OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X uses the Mac OS X DMG disk image format. To install OpenOffice.org locally or over a network: Locate the disk image file and open it. Drag and drop the icon from within the disk image to a location on the local drive or a location on the network. Enter the administrator password when you are prompted for it.
Support Resources
So you've started using OpenOffice.org. Wonderful! Chances are youmay have questions about problems you encounter in the software or wantto learn more about it. There are a number of ways you can get helpwith the software. Visit our OpenOffice.org Support Home for more information on getting help with OpenOffice.org
To find information, resources, and much more in your native language, please visit the NLC projet page.
Download troubles
There are various reports from users on our mailinglist that theyhave problems downloading OpenOffice.org using Safari the defaultbrowser for Mac OS X. Safari isn't capable of directly downloading fromFTP servers so Safari passes download requests for files from a FTPserver through to the Finder, the Finder connects to the FTP server andfails. This may be a bug in Mac OS X 10.3.x and 10.4.x which cannot besolved by OpenOffice.org developers.
There are two known solutions:
Even though the Finder has problems with passed throughdownloads from Safari the download often works when you copy thedownload url to the clipboard, switch to the Finder->Go->Connectto Server and paste the url in the empty line below Server Adress.Click 'Connect' and the see if the Finder now connects to the downloadserver.
Mozilla/Gecko based browsers like Firefox or Camino are capable of directly downloading from FTP servers.
As the file is downloaded, you will see the icon of the Disk Image(dmg) File appear. When the download is finished, simply double clickon the icon of the 'dmg' file, and drag the OpenOffice.org 'Icon' inyour applications folder.
OpenOffice.org X11 How-To
There is a small how-to install and use X11 and OpenOffice.org Mac OS X available in
FAQ
For any other installation or mac-specific question visit this page. There are the latest news and informations on known OpenOffice.org Mac OS X (X11) issues and problems.
Mailinglist
If you still can't find your answer there, try the following community staffed mailinglist: users@openoffice.apache.org
To make life easier for yourself and other volunteers on themailinglist please subscribe to the mailinglist. In order to do so senda blank email to this addresswait for the daemon to answer you. Now answer the mail the mailinglistdaemon sent to you yourself by pressing the reply button in yourmailer. After the second confirmation your able to post and receivemails from users@openoffice.apache.org
In order to make life easier for both end-users and developers wedecided to move end-user support to the project wide users mailinglistwhile mac porting remains the mailinglist for OpenOffice.org macdevelopment.
Remember, these are staffed by volunteers who donate their time to help users, so be patient and polite:
Online Help and Manuals
One of the quickest references to get to is the OpenOffice.orgOnline Help (under the Help menu). This online help contains a thoroughdescription of the application.
You can also go to your local bookstore and pick up several books such as the OpenOffice.org Resource Kit and StarOffice Companion.While these books are not specific to Mac OS X, OpenOffice.org on MacOS X is nearly identical to all other platforms and these books willstill be valuable references.
If you get help from any of these places, please consider helpingout by browsing through them from time to time and answering questionsto which you know or learned the answers. Support, too, is an effortthat needs
Paid Support
If you require commercial support, you may want to check out some of the commercial OpenOffice.org support providers.Be aware that not all may provide assistance with Mac OS X, however, sobe sure to check to make sure they support the Mac OS X plat form..
Filing Bugs
OK, say you've found a glitch in the software (a bug, like thesoftware crashes when opening this certain file) and haven't been ableto find an answer in any of the support resources. The next step is tofile an issue about it. See the IssueZillapage for more information about what a proper report should contain andwhere to file it. Mac-specific bugs should be filed against the porting project.
Last updated by $Author: smsm1 $ on $Date: 2007/02/11 01:26:04 $
- 3Apple Developer Connection (ADC) Reference Library: highlights
- 4Mac OS X Shortcuts (under construction)
- 4.1Introduction
- 4.1.3Synonyms and distinctions
- 4.2Roadmap
- 4.2.1CWS
- 4.3Common shortcuts
- 4.3.8Quick Reference Shortcuts
- 4.1Introduction
- 6Keyboard Viewer in Mac OS X
- 6.1Screen shots
- 7See also
Contributors
- Ismael Merzaq: Ismael
- Mox Soini: Mox
- Eric Bachard: ericb
- Graham Perrin: grahamperrin
Introduction
For most of the keyboard shortcuts in OpenOffice.org, the Mac OS X port will follow the other OpenOffice.org platforms, to maintain consistency and allow people to use several platforms without much re-learning.
However, there are some special cases that require Mac OS X port to make exceptions in shortcuts, compared to the other platforms:
- Mac OS X System has global keyboard shortcuts that override existing OpenOffice.org shortcuts
- Apple Human Interface Guidelines (AHIG) requires that all Mac OS X applications define certain common set of shortcuts. That common set might cause a change for shortcut to have different functionality.
Apple Developer Connection (ADC) Reference Library: highlights
Accessibility Overview: Appendix A: Accessibility Keyboard Shortcuts
- keyboard shortcuts that are reserved for use with various Universal Access features in Mac OS X
Apple Human Interface Guidelines: Keyboard Shortcuts Quick Reference
- system-reserved and commonly used keyboard shortcuts
Apple Human Interface Guidelines: Selecting
- Selections in Graphics … with the mouse alone or a combination of the mouse and the keyboard…
Apple Human Interface Guidelines: The Keyboard
Application Architecture Overview: Features of a Cocoa Application
- … Menu Management … The application takes care of … accelerator keys …
NSTextView Class Reference
- complete — invokes completion in a text view … By default invoked using the F5 key, this method provides users with a choice of completions for the word currently being typed. May be invoked programmatically if autocompletion is desired by a client of the text system. You can change the key invoking this method using the text system's key bindings mechanism; see 'Text System Defaults and Key Bindings' for an explanation of the procedure.
System Services: Services Properties
Text System Defaults and Key Bindings
Mac OS X Shortcuts (under construction)
Introduction
This new section marked with under construction will contain as many as possible shortcuts available on Mac OS X. All these shortcuts are Apple HIG compliant and we should check them in OO.o and fix them if they do not work as expected.
Sections
Please, split shortcuts to smaller sections to make it easily editable. It's a pain to edit one long table. Thanks.
How to edit
Copy complete specification of shortcuts from Apple HIG to this wiki page and add red comments if something's wrong. If we use this way, we can have idea how it should work, how it works and what to fix.
You can find duplicates in tables below. That's because they are duplicated in Apple's HIG documentation. I do not want to remove them to avoid mistakes.
Synonyms and distinctions
accelerate, bind and shortcut
In Apple terms:
- a key may be bound
- there may be multiple keystroke bindings
- the expression accelerator is not always used
- the expression shortcut is not always used.
command key
ADC Reference Library tends to refer to the command key. The command key is also known as:
- cmd
- Apple
On a British keyboard the command key is labelled with a place of interest sign:
plus either of the following labels:
completion of text
In Apple terms: the user may invoke completion, typically using the F5 key.
Completion may be invoked programmatically if autocompletion is desired by a client of the text system.
OpenOffice.org uses terms such as:
- Auto-complete
- AutoInput
- Word completion
Openoffice For Mac Catalina
option key
ADC Reference Library tends to refer to the option key. The option key is also known as:
- opt
- alt
On a British keyboard the option key is usually labelled:
Roadmap
CWS
macshortcuts01
Status: Integrated
More info: Multiplatform shortcuts
Target: OO.o 3.2
| Shortcuts for macshortcuts01 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| App | Current | Proposal | Shortdesc |
| OO.o | Cmd-M | Ctrl-M | Default formatting - Writer Issue 98951 , Calc Issue 98950 , meta Issue 98949 |
| OO.o | F11 | Cmd-T | Styles and formatting Issue 99637 |
| OO.o | Cmd-Y | Cmd-Shift-Z | Redo - All Issue 99177 |
| OO.o | Cmd-M | Minimize current window Issue 98949 | |
| OO.o | Cmd-Option-M | Minimize all application windows Issue 98949 |
Additional issues fixed: Issue 99254 , Issue 99296
macshortcuts02
Planned CWS.
This CWS should include fixes for shortcuts not included in 01.
Common shortcuts
| Description | |
|---|---|
| Status | Description |
| OK | OpenOffice.org shortcut works as expected or Mac OS X reserved shortcut is not used by the OpenOffice.org. |
| EE | Shortcut doesn't work and can be fixed |
| II | To implement this shortcut we need to enhance OO.o because of missing menu items, ... |
Moving the insertion point with the arrow keys
| Moving the insertion point | ||
|---|---|---|
| Status | Key | Moves insertion point |
| OK | Right Arrow | One character to the right |
| OK | Left Arrow | One character to the left |
| OK | Up Arrow | To the line above, to the nearest character boundary at the same horizontal location |
| OK | Down Arrow | To the line below, to the nearest character boundary at the same horizontal location |
| EE | Option–Right Arrow | To the end of current word, then to the end of the next word It moves to the beginning of next word, then to the beginning of the next word |
| OK | Option–Left Arrow | To the beginning of the current word, then to the beginning of the previous word |
| OK | Option–Up Arrow | To the beginning of the current paragraph, then to the beginning of the previous paragraph |
| EE | Option–Down Arrow | To the end of the current paragraph, then to the end of the next paragraph (not to the blank line after the paragraph, if there is one) Blank line is not skipped |
| EE | Command–Right Arrow | To the next semantic unit, typically the end of the current line, then the end of the next line Doesn't work for next lines. It jumps to the end of the current line, but not to the ends of next lines. |
| EE | Command–Left Arrow | To the previous semantic unit, typically the beginning of the current line, then the previous unit Doesn't work for previous lines. It jumps to the beginning of the current line, but not to the beginnings of previous lines. |
| OK | Command–Up Arrow | Upward in the next semantic unit, typically the beginning of the document |
| OK | Command–Down Arrow | Downward in the next semantic unit, typically the end of the document |
Exception: For non-Roman script systems, Command–Left Arrow and Command–Right Arrow are reserved for changing the direction of keyboard input.
Extending selection with Shift and the arrow keys
| Extending selection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Status | Key | Extends selection |
| OK | Shift-Right Arrow | One character to the right |
| OK | Shift-Left Arrow | One character to the left |
| OK | Shift-Up Arrow | To the line above, to the nearest character boundary at the same horizontal location |
| OK | Shift-Down Arrow | To the line below, to the nearest character boundary at the same horizontal location |
| EE | Shift-Option–Right Arrow | To the end of current word, then to the end of the next word It moves to the beginning of next word, then to the beginning of the next word |
| OK | Shift-Option–Left Arrow | To the beginning of the current word, then to the beginning of the previous word |
| OK | Shift-Option–Up Arrow | To the beginning of the current paragraph, then to the beginning of the previous paragraph |
| EE | Shift-Option–Down Arrow | To the end of the current paragraph, then to the end of the next paragraph (not to the blank line after the paragraph, if there is one) Blank line is not skipped |
| EE | Shift-Command–Right Arrow | To the next semantic unit, typically the end of the current line, then the end of the next line Doesn't work for next lines. It jumps to the end of the current line, but not to the ends of next lines. |
| EE | Shift-Command–Left Arrow | To the previous semantic unit, typically the beginning of the current line, then the previous unit Doesn't work for previous lines. It jumps to the beginning of the current line, but not to the beginnings of previous lines. |
| OK | Shift-Command–Up Arrow | Upward in the next semantic unit, typically the beginning of the document |
| OK | Shift-Command–Down Arrow | Downward in the next semantic unit, typically the end of the document |
Reserved shortcuts
Don't use the keys and key combinations in Table below for actions other than those listed in the table.
You can also go to your local bookstore and pick up several books such as the OpenOffice.org Resource Kit and StarOffice Companion.While these books are not specific to Mac OS X, OpenOffice.org on MacOS X is nearly identical to all other platforms and these books willstill be valuable references.
If you get help from any of these places, please consider helpingout by browsing through them from time to time and answering questionsto which you know or learned the answers. Support, too, is an effortthat needs
Paid Support
If you require commercial support, you may want to check out some of the commercial OpenOffice.org support providers.Be aware that not all may provide assistance with Mac OS X, however, sobe sure to check to make sure they support the Mac OS X plat form..
Filing Bugs
OK, say you've found a glitch in the software (a bug, like thesoftware crashes when opening this certain file) and haven't been ableto find an answer in any of the support resources. The next step is tofile an issue about it. See the IssueZillapage for more information about what a proper report should contain andwhere to file it. Mac-specific bugs should be filed against the porting project.
Last updated by $Author: smsm1 $ on $Date: 2007/02/11 01:26:04 $
- 3Apple Developer Connection (ADC) Reference Library: highlights
- 4Mac OS X Shortcuts (under construction)
- 4.1Introduction
- 4.1.3Synonyms and distinctions
- 4.2Roadmap
- 4.2.1CWS
- 4.3Common shortcuts
- 4.3.8Quick Reference Shortcuts
- 4.1Introduction
- 6Keyboard Viewer in Mac OS X
- 6.1Screen shots
- 7See also
Contributors
- Ismael Merzaq: Ismael
- Mox Soini: Mox
- Eric Bachard: ericb
- Graham Perrin: grahamperrin
Introduction
For most of the keyboard shortcuts in OpenOffice.org, the Mac OS X port will follow the other OpenOffice.org platforms, to maintain consistency and allow people to use several platforms without much re-learning.
However, there are some special cases that require Mac OS X port to make exceptions in shortcuts, compared to the other platforms:
- Mac OS X System has global keyboard shortcuts that override existing OpenOffice.org shortcuts
- Apple Human Interface Guidelines (AHIG) requires that all Mac OS X applications define certain common set of shortcuts. That common set might cause a change for shortcut to have different functionality.
Apple Developer Connection (ADC) Reference Library: highlights
Accessibility Overview: Appendix A: Accessibility Keyboard Shortcuts
- keyboard shortcuts that are reserved for use with various Universal Access features in Mac OS X
Apple Human Interface Guidelines: Keyboard Shortcuts Quick Reference
- system-reserved and commonly used keyboard shortcuts
Apple Human Interface Guidelines: Selecting
- Selections in Graphics … with the mouse alone or a combination of the mouse and the keyboard…
Apple Human Interface Guidelines: The Keyboard
Application Architecture Overview: Features of a Cocoa Application
- … Menu Management … The application takes care of … accelerator keys …
NSTextView Class Reference
- complete — invokes completion in a text view … By default invoked using the F5 key, this method provides users with a choice of completions for the word currently being typed. May be invoked programmatically if autocompletion is desired by a client of the text system. You can change the key invoking this method using the text system's key bindings mechanism; see 'Text System Defaults and Key Bindings' for an explanation of the procedure.
System Services: Services Properties
Text System Defaults and Key Bindings
Mac OS X Shortcuts (under construction)
Introduction
This new section marked with under construction will contain as many as possible shortcuts available on Mac OS X. All these shortcuts are Apple HIG compliant and we should check them in OO.o and fix them if they do not work as expected.
Sections
Please, split shortcuts to smaller sections to make it easily editable. It's a pain to edit one long table. Thanks.
How to edit
Copy complete specification of shortcuts from Apple HIG to this wiki page and add red comments if something's wrong. If we use this way, we can have idea how it should work, how it works and what to fix.
You can find duplicates in tables below. That's because they are duplicated in Apple's HIG documentation. I do not want to remove them to avoid mistakes.
Synonyms and distinctions
accelerate, bind and shortcut
In Apple terms:
- a key may be bound
- there may be multiple keystroke bindings
- the expression accelerator is not always used
- the expression shortcut is not always used.
command key
ADC Reference Library tends to refer to the command key. The command key is also known as:
- cmd
- Apple
On a British keyboard the command key is labelled with a place of interest sign:
plus either of the following labels:
completion of text
In Apple terms: the user may invoke completion, typically using the F5 key.
Completion may be invoked programmatically if autocompletion is desired by a client of the text system.
OpenOffice.org uses terms such as:
- Auto-complete
- AutoInput
- Word completion
Openoffice For Mac Catalina
option key
ADC Reference Library tends to refer to the option key. The option key is also known as:
- opt
- alt
On a British keyboard the option key is usually labelled:
Roadmap
CWS
macshortcuts01
Status: Integrated
More info: Multiplatform shortcuts
Target: OO.o 3.2
| Shortcuts for macshortcuts01 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| App | Current | Proposal | Shortdesc |
| OO.o | Cmd-M | Ctrl-M | Default formatting - Writer Issue 98951 , Calc Issue 98950 , meta Issue 98949 |
| OO.o | F11 | Cmd-T | Styles and formatting Issue 99637 |
| OO.o | Cmd-Y | Cmd-Shift-Z | Redo - All Issue 99177 |
| OO.o | Cmd-M | Minimize current window Issue 98949 | |
| OO.o | Cmd-Option-M | Minimize all application windows Issue 98949 |
Additional issues fixed: Issue 99254 , Issue 99296
macshortcuts02
Planned CWS.
This CWS should include fixes for shortcuts not included in 01.
Common shortcuts
| Description | |
|---|---|
| Status | Description |
| OK | OpenOffice.org shortcut works as expected or Mac OS X reserved shortcut is not used by the OpenOffice.org. |
| EE | Shortcut doesn't work and can be fixed |
| II | To implement this shortcut we need to enhance OO.o because of missing menu items, ... |
Moving the insertion point with the arrow keys
| Moving the insertion point | ||
|---|---|---|
| Status | Key | Moves insertion point |
| OK | Right Arrow | One character to the right |
| OK | Left Arrow | One character to the left |
| OK | Up Arrow | To the line above, to the nearest character boundary at the same horizontal location |
| OK | Down Arrow | To the line below, to the nearest character boundary at the same horizontal location |
| EE | Option–Right Arrow | To the end of current word, then to the end of the next word It moves to the beginning of next word, then to the beginning of the next word |
| OK | Option–Left Arrow | To the beginning of the current word, then to the beginning of the previous word |
| OK | Option–Up Arrow | To the beginning of the current paragraph, then to the beginning of the previous paragraph |
| EE | Option–Down Arrow | To the end of the current paragraph, then to the end of the next paragraph (not to the blank line after the paragraph, if there is one) Blank line is not skipped |
| EE | Command–Right Arrow | To the next semantic unit, typically the end of the current line, then the end of the next line Doesn't work for next lines. It jumps to the end of the current line, but not to the ends of next lines. |
| EE | Command–Left Arrow | To the previous semantic unit, typically the beginning of the current line, then the previous unit Doesn't work for previous lines. It jumps to the beginning of the current line, but not to the beginnings of previous lines. |
| OK | Command–Up Arrow | Upward in the next semantic unit, typically the beginning of the document |
| OK | Command–Down Arrow | Downward in the next semantic unit, typically the end of the document |
Exception: For non-Roman script systems, Command–Left Arrow and Command–Right Arrow are reserved for changing the direction of keyboard input.
Extending selection with Shift and the arrow keys
| Extending selection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Status | Key | Extends selection |
| OK | Shift-Right Arrow | One character to the right |
| OK | Shift-Left Arrow | One character to the left |
| OK | Shift-Up Arrow | To the line above, to the nearest character boundary at the same horizontal location |
| OK | Shift-Down Arrow | To the line below, to the nearest character boundary at the same horizontal location |
| EE | Shift-Option–Right Arrow | To the end of current word, then to the end of the next word It moves to the beginning of next word, then to the beginning of the next word |
| OK | Shift-Option–Left Arrow | To the beginning of the current word, then to the beginning of the previous word |
| OK | Shift-Option–Up Arrow | To the beginning of the current paragraph, then to the beginning of the previous paragraph |
| EE | Shift-Option–Down Arrow | To the end of the current paragraph, then to the end of the next paragraph (not to the blank line after the paragraph, if there is one) Blank line is not skipped |
| EE | Shift-Command–Right Arrow | To the next semantic unit, typically the end of the current line, then the end of the next line Doesn't work for next lines. It jumps to the end of the current line, but not to the ends of next lines. |
| EE | Shift-Command–Left Arrow | To the previous semantic unit, typically the beginning of the current line, then the previous unit Doesn't work for previous lines. It jumps to the beginning of the current line, but not to the beginnings of previous lines. |
| OK | Shift-Command–Up Arrow | Upward in the next semantic unit, typically the beginning of the document |
| OK | Shift-Command–Down Arrow | Downward in the next semantic unit, typically the end of the document |
Reserved shortcuts
Don't use the keys and key combinations in Table below for actions other than those listed in the table.
Shortcuts below are Mac specific and they are not passed to application.
| Reserved shortcuts | ||
|---|---|---|
| Status | Keys | Action |
| OK | Esc | Cancel the current action |
| OK | Command-Tab | Activate the most recently used open application |
| OK | Command-Shift-Tab | Activate the least recently used open application |
| OK | Command-Option-D | Show or hide the Dock |
| OK | Command-H | Hide the active application |
| OK | Command-Option-H | Hide other applications (all but the active one) |
| EE | Command-Shift-Q | Log out OO.o: Interrupt Macro |
| OK | Command-Shift-Option-Q | Log out without confirmation |
| OK | Command-Shift-Option-Control-Q | Force log out without confirmation |
| OK | Command–Space bar | Show or hide Spotlight search field |
| OK | Command-Option-Esc | Open the Force Quit dialog |
| EE | Command-F5 | Turn VoiceOver on or off OO.o: Control Focus |
| OK | Control-F1 | Turn full keyboard navigation on or off |
| OK | Control-F7 | Toggle keyboard navigation in windows and dialogs |
| EE | F9 | Tile or untile all open windows Writer: Fields |
| OK | F10 | Tile or untile all open windows in current application |
| EE | F11 | Hide or show all open windows Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw: Styles and Formatting |
| EE | F12 | Display or hide Dashboard Writer: Numbering On/Off |
Reserved shortcuts for international systems
| Reserved shortcuts for international systems | ||
|---|---|---|
| Status | Keys | Action |
| ? | Command–Space bar | Rotate through enabled script systems |
| ? | Command–Option–Space bar | Rotate through keyboard layouts and input methods within a script |
| ? | Command–modifier key–Space bar | Apple reserved |
| ? | Command–Right Arrow | Change keyboard layout to current layout of Roman script |
| ? | Command–Left Arrow | Change keyboard layout to current layout of system script |
Recommended shortcuts using Shift to complement other commands
| Recommended shortcuts using Shift to complement other commands | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Status | Keys | Command | Complemented command |
| II | Command-Shift-A | Deselect All | Command-A (Select All) There's no Edit - Deselect All |
| II | Command-Shift-G | Find Previous | Command-G (Find Again) There's no Find Again / Previous. These should be assigned in Find & Replace dialog? |
| II | Command-Shift-P | Page Setup | Command-P (Print) This should be probably assigned to File - Printer Settings |
| OK | Command-Shift-S | Save As | Command-S (Save) |
| OK | Command-Shift-V | Paste as (Paste as Quotation, for example) | Command-V (Paste) |
| EE | Command-Shift-Z | Redo | Command-Z (Undo) OO.o has Cmd-Y as Redo |
Note: Command-Shift-Z would be used for Redo only if Undo and Redo are separate commands (rather than toggled using Command-Z).
Accessibility shortcuts - zooming
| Screen zooming | ||
|---|---|---|
| Status | Keys | Action |
| OK | Option-Command-8 | Turns screen zooming on or off |
| OK | Option-Command-= | Zooms in |
| OK | Option-Command-- (hyphen) | Zooms out |
| OK | Command-Option-Control-8 | Inverts the screen colors |
| OK | Command-Option-Control-, | Reduces contrast |
| OK | Command-Option-Control-. | Increases contrast |
Accessibility shortcuts - moving focus
| Focus moving in full keyboard access mode | ||
|---|---|---|
| Status | Keys | Action |
| ? | Control-F1 | Turns full keyboard access on or off |
| ? | Control-F2 | Moves focus to the menu bar |
| ? | Control-F3 | Moves focus to the Dock |
| ? | Control-F4 | Moves focus to the active (or next) window |
| ? | Shift-Control-F4 | Moves focus to the previous window |
| ? | Control-F5 | Moves focus to the toolbar |
| ? | Control-F6 | Moves focus to the first (or next) utility window |
| ? | Shift-Control-F6 | Moves focus to the previous utility window |
| ? | Control-F7 | Toggles the keyboard access mode in windows and dialogs between all controls and just text fields and scrolling lists |
| ? | Control-Tab | Moves focus to the next grouping of controls in a dialog or the next table (when Tab moves to next cell) |
| ? | Shift-Control-Tab | Moves focus to the previous grouping of controls |
| ? | Command-Tab | Moves focus to the first (or next) open application's Dock icon |
| ? | Command-Shift-Tab | Moves focus to the previous open application's Dock icon |
| ? | Arrow key | Moves focus to the next or previous value in a text field or certain controls, such as menus; also opens Dock menus |
| ? | Control–arrow key | Moves focus to another value or cell within a control such as a table |
| OK | Command-` (grave accent) | Activates the next open window in the frontmost application |
| OK | Command-Shift-` (grave accent) | Activates the previous open window in the frontmost application |
| ? | Command-Option-` (grave accent) | Moves focus to the window drawer |
| ? | Space bar | Selects the highlighted control (equivalent to clicking the mouse button) |
| EE | Return (Enter) | Selects the default button works only for Return key, Enter most of the time doesn't do anything (i94369) |
| OK | Esc | Cancels a dialog or a selection in a pop-up menu or list; in a Dock menu, Esc closes the menu and moves the focus to the frontmost window |
Quick Reference Shortcuts
Here's a list of shortcuts from Quick Reference [1] from Apple. Table below doesn't contain all shortcuts from this page, only reasonable ones and those not listed above.
Alphabet keys
| Alphabet shortcuts | ||
|---|---|---|
| Status | Keys | Action |
| OK | Cmd-Z | Reverse the effect of the user's previous operation (Undo) |
| EE | Cmd-Shift-Z | Reverse the effect of the last Undo command (Redo) OO.o uses Cmd-Y |
| OK | Cmd-X | Remove selection and store on the Clipboard (Cut) |
| OK | Cmd-W | Close the active window (equivalent to the Close command) |
| EE | Shift-Cmd-W | Close a file and its associated windows This should be associated with File - Close command |
| EE | Option-Cmd-W | Close all windows in the application There's no File - Close All or Window - Close All menu item |
| OK | Cmd-V | Insert the Clipboard contents at the insertion point (Paste) |
| II | Option-Cmd-V | Apply the style of one object to the selected object (Paste Style) AFAIK no Paste Style in OO.o |
| II | Option-Shift-Cmd-V | Apply the style of the surrounding text to the insert object (Paste and Match Style) not exactly implemented in OO.o, but in the 'Paste Special' menu there's 'Paste Unformatted', which is almost the same |
| II | Ctrl-Cmd-V | Apply formatting settings to the select object (Paste Ruler) Probably Format brush, need more info |
| OK | Cmd-U | Underline the selected text or turn underlining on or off |
| EE | Cmd-T | Display the Fonts window OO.o uses F11, which is captured by Mac OS X. |
| Issue 99204 | Alt-Cmd-T | Mac OS X: show or hide the Character Palette. (Show or hide a toolbar. As we have more than one toolbar, we should save all visible toolbars and hide / show them.) |
| OK | Cmd-S | Save |
| OK | Shift-Option-S | Save As |
| OK | Cmd-Q | Quit the application |
| OK | Cmd-P | Display the Print dialog |
| EE | Shift-Cmd-P | Display a dialog for specifying printing parameters This should be probably assigned to File - Printer Settings |
| OK | Cmd-O | Open a new document |
| OK | Cmd-N | Open a new document |
| EE | Cmd-M | Minimize the active window to the Dock Window is minimized, but Writer, Calc, ... use this shortcut for default formatting |
| EE | Option-Cmd-M | Minimize all windows of the active application to the Dock Doesnt' work, beeps only |
| OK | Cmd-J | Scroll to a selection |
| OK | Cmd-I | Italicize the selected text or toggle italic text on or off |
| EE | Option-Cmd-I | Display and inspector window This should display Character ... dialog in Writer for example. Same as right mouse click - Character ... This is for what Inspector window is used in other applications. |
| OK | Cmd-H | Hide the windows of the currently running application |
| OK | Option-Cmd-H | Hide the windows of all other running applications |
| EE | Cmd-G | Find the next occurence of the selection This should be assigned to Find button in the Find & Replace dialog at least |
| EE | Shift-Cmd-G | Find the previous occurence of the selection This should be assigned to Find button in the Find & Replace dialog at least and search direction should be set to backwards. |
| OK | Cmd-F | Open a Find window |
| II | Option-Cmd-F | Jump to search field control There's no search field control |
| EE | Cmd-E | Use the selection for a find operation OO.o uses this shortcut to center text/object. This shortcut should open Find & Replace dialog and put selected text into the search for field. Cmd-| (pipe) should be used for centering. |
| OK | Cmd-D | Double underline - it's not HIG, but it not violates HIG too |
| OK | Cmd-C | Duplicate the selected data and store on the Clipboard (Copy) |
| II | Shift-Cmd-C | Display the Colors window Does it make sense to display floating window with colors? Probably not yet |
| II | Option-Cmd-C | Copy the style of the selected text (Copy Style) We can probably enhance clipboard and add additional style object, so, user can copy style and paste it to objects with Option-Cmd-P? |
| II | Ctrl-Cmd-C | Copy the formatting settings of the selected item and store on the Clipboard (Copy Ruler) Same as for the previous one. No Style, but hardcoded formatting combined with Style? |
| EE | Cmd-B | Boldface the selected text or toggle boldfaces text on or off |
| OK | Cmd-A | Select all |
Special keys
| Alphabet shortcuts | ||
|---|---|---|
| Status | Keys | Action |
| OK | Option-Cmd-8 | Turn screen zooming on or off |
| OK | Option-Ctrl-Cmd-8 | Invert the screen colors |
| OK | Shift-Cmd-4 | Capture a selection to a file |
| OK | Shift-Ctrl-Cmd-4 | Capture a selection to the Clipboard |
| OK | Shift-Cmd-3 | Capture the screen to a file |
| OK | Shift-Ctrl-Cmd-3 | Capture the screen to the Clipboard |
| EE | Shift-Cmd-= | Increase the size of the selected item Normally, font size is increased. Other applications use this shortcut to zoom in page. |
| OK | Option-Cmd-= | Zoom in when screen zooming is on |
| OK | Option-Cmd-/ | Turn font smoothing on or off |
| EE | Cmd-? | Open the application's help viewer OO. uses F1 |
| OK | Option-Ctrl-Cmd-. | Increase screen contrast |
| OK | Option-Ctrl-Cmd-, | Decrease screen contrast |
| OK | Cmd-, | Open the application's preferences window |
| EE | Cmd-; | Find mispelled words in the document FIXME - proposal |
| EE | Cmd-(pipe) | Center-align a selection OO.o uses Cmd-E, which should be used for something else. |
| EE | Cmd-} | Right-align a selection OO.o uses Cmd-R |
| EE | Cmd-{ | Left-align a selection OO.o uses Cmd-L |
| OK | Option-Cmd-- (hyphen) | Zoom out when screen zooming is on |
| EE | Cmd-- (hyphen) | Decrease the size of the selected item It should decrease font size of selection. Other applications use this shortcut to zoom out whole page. |
| OK | Cmd-` | Activate the next open window in the frontmost application |
| OK | Shift-Cmd-` | Activate the previous open window in the frontmost application |
| ?? | Option-Cmd-` | Move focus to the window drawer |
| ... | ... | To be done |
Mac OS X Shortcuts
The following table describes the differences in keyboard shortcuts and the reasons for the changes. For detailed information, see: Apple Human Interface Guidelines, AHIG for key accelerators and menus and for menu examples
| Generic OpenOffice.org | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Functionality | Ideal OpenOffice.org | OpenOffice.org Aqua | Reason |
| Main command key | Command (CMD) the 'Apple' key | Command (CMD) the 'Apple' key (implementation in progress) | In Mac OS X, the Command -modifier is the logical equivalent of Control modifier in Windows and Linux |
| Function keys | F1 - F12 | - | Function keys in Mac OS X have system-wide functionality (like F9 for Exposé) |
| Spotlight search | CMD-Space | - | This shortcut is used system-wide in Mac OS X |
| Apple reserved | CMD-Shift-Space | - | This shortcut is used system-wide in Mac OS X (see Apple shortcut documentation) |
| Preferences... access to settings | CMD-, i.e. comma | CMD-, same shortcut | AHIG, system-wide standard. Mac OS X: Preferences... in (System-wide) Application menu, i.e. the 'Apple-menu' OOo: Tools > Options |
| Help | CMD-? i.e. question mark | F1 | AHIG, system-wide standard |
| Undo | CMD-Z | CMD-Z | AHIG, system-wide standard |
| Redo | CMD-SHIFT-Z | CMD-Y | AHIG, system-wide standard |
| Spellcheck | CMD-; i.e. semicolon | F7 | AHIG, system-wide standard. Mac OS X: Edit > Spellcheck |
| Non-breaking space | Option-Space | CTRL-Space | conflicts with Mac OS X System. See also Wikipedia:Non-breaking space |
| Close | CMD-W Close in File -menu | CTRL-F4 and CTRL-W | AHIG, system-wide standard. OOo: window > Close window with the key accelerator and File > Close without key accelerator. |
| Minimize minimize window | CMD-M Minimize in Window -menu | ?? | AHIG, system-wide standard. |
| Hide hide window | CMD-H Hides the Window | CMD-H Hides the Window | AHIG, system-wide standard. |
| Copy copy | CMD-C Copy | CMD-C Copy | AHIG, system-wide standard. |
| Paste paste | CMD-V paste | CMD-V paste | AHIG, system-wide standard. |
| Paste and Match style | CMD-SHIFT-OPTION-V Paste and Match style in Edit -menu | - Paste Special -> Unformatted text in Edit -menu | There is no direct command in OOo. CTRL-SHIFT-V activates the paste special dialog. However, the 'Paste and Match style' should have shortcut as the text is more intuitive and is very handy when copy-pasting between different documents. |
| Open open' | CMD-O Open | CMD-O Open | AHIG, system-wide standard. |
| Print | CMD-P | CMD-P | AHIG, system-wide standard. |
| Save | CMD-S save | CMD-S save | AHIG, system-wide standard. |
| Save As | CMD-SHIFT-S | - | AHIG, system-wide standard. |
| Left-align | CMD-{ i.e. left bracket | CTRL-l | AHIG, system-wide standard |
| Right-align | CMD-} i.e. right bracket | CTRL-r | AHIG, system-wide standard |
| Align to center | CMD-| i.e. pipe | CTRL-e | AHIG, system-wide standard |
| Decrease size of the selected item | CMD-- | ?? | AHIG, system-wide standard. Apple Pages: Format > Font > Smaller Equivalent of the Smaller command in OpenOffice.org |
| Increase size of the selected item | CMD-+ | ?? | AHIG, system-wide standard. Apple Pages: Format > Font > Bigger Equivalent of the ?? command in OpenOffice.org |
| Conditional hyphen | ?? | CTRL-- | conflicts with AHIG |
| OpenOffice.org Writer | |||
| Functionality | OpenOffice.org Mac OS X | OpenOffice.org | Reason |
| Refresh fields | ?? | F9 | Conflicts with Mac OS X system. OOo: Tools > Refresh > Fields |
| Style dialog | CMD-SHIFT-T | F11 | Conflicts with Mac OS X system. Apple Pages: View > Show Styles Drawer |
| Default formatin Format -menu | CTRL-M | CTRL-SHIFT-Space | Conflicts with Apple reserved shortcut, see Apple shortcut documentation Apple Pages: Format > Reapply Defaults to Selection OOo: Format > Default format |
| OpenOffice.org Calc | |||
| Functionality | OpenOffice.org Mac OS X | OpenOffice.org | Reason |
| Recalculate the cell content | ?? | F9 | Conflicts with Mac OS X system. OOo: Tools > Cell content > Recalculate |
| Group (data) | ?? | F12 | Conflicts with Mac OS X system. OOo: Data > Plan > Group |
Keyboard Viewer in Mac OS X
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