I want to change the shortcut key for the Manage Styles dialog from F11 to Ctl-X.
In the Tools.Customize.Keyboard dialog, I
Now neither F11 or Ctl-X raise the dialog. And the ‘Manage Styles’ function does not appear (as far as I can see) in the actions available for mapping.
How to fix?
Since this is a writer question, it does not apply to Calc, Impress, … Consequently, retag your question to remove common and writer-common and also ibreoffice-writer which contains a typo.
@ajlittoz How do we request the removal of invalid options from the tag selector dropdown? There are quite a few questions tagged with ibreoffice-writer (sic). Is the Writer the only LO application that uses styles and shortcut keys?
@carnish: still using ibreoffice-writer which was suggested by the tag engine is alas perpetuating the faulty typo. Removing it from this question won’t delete or otherwise alter the existing questions. Anyway the collected tag dictionary needs cleaning but who can do it? This needs maintenance access to the AskLO DB. I volunteer to dig into it but I have no idea of the procedure and I have no administrator right.
The Manage Styles menu item is present with this wording and shortcut only in Writer and Calc. Therefore, it can’t be qualified common.
@ajlittoz Thanks for volunteering to look into it. I have some programming and database experience and volunteer to do the work – unless it is an uncommon database type. if you can investigate the access I’m happy to give that a shot.
I’m struggling with the retag feature. It will open up for editing but the edit will not persist.
@carnish: it is indeed difficult to retag. This sometimes needs to hit twice the Enter key to commit the change and this damned !#%& suggestion tries to force your choice.
The function is simply Styles.
Reassigning to Ctrl+X couldn’t work because that is reserved for clipboard Cut (as Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V are for Copy and Paste).
First thing it says in the Help for this dialog is Avoid assigning shortcut keys that are currently used by your operating system. CTRL+X is a system key for Cut (to clipboard).
As far as I can see your order of operation for changing the assignments was wrong. You have probably assigned F11 to the first thing on the list, in mine it would be 100% (zoom). To change yours back to Styles
Select the Shortcut key, F11
In the Functions search field, type Styles
Click button Modify
OK out