The keyboard shortcut for “track changes” (used to be Ctrl+Shift+E) no longer works in the current version of Libre Office Writer. I’m running Ubuntu 22.04.3 and Libre Office 7.3.7.2.
Please bring this shortcut back! It is essential for my work. No idea why anybody would think it’s a good idea to remove it. Maybe it was an oversight, but either way: it needs to be fixed.
I don’t see this keyboard shortcut in my Windows versions, it used to be Ctrl+Shift+C but was changed because of the huge number of accidental turning on of Track Changes as reported on this site
No problem to assign your own, I see that both Ctrl+Shift+C & Ctrl+Shift+E seem to be free. See Help Keyboard
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You can create a keyboard shortcut yourself, see:
Keyboard shortcuts
Search for the command “Record”.
I tried that. Unfortunately it has no effect. I tried both “Record” - which is in there twice in a row for some reason, and “Track Changes Function”.
Well, re-enabling Ctrl+Shift+E with the next update would be the most intuitive option. That’s what it used to be (and is with other word processing applications). Forcing users to create their own workarounds on every workstation for something that used to exist by default, is not exactly user-friendly. I can see Ctrl+Shift+C leading to accidental misuse, but Ctrl+Shift+E worked great on previous versions of LibreOffice. Seems like a simple bug to fix in order to make users more likely to stick with LibreOffice.
Do you really think you get your updates from TDF? Maybe yo should compare your
with “latest” versions at Download LibreOffice | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft
as I see 7.5.9 and 7.6.4 there.
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But the shortcut was intercepted by other processes, mostly in Linux, so was changed, see
Bug 116098 - Shortcut for recording changes doesn’t work
The replacement shortcut was removed due to accidental pressings, see
Bug 130847 - UI Change “Edit>Track Changes>Record” shortcut
If you create your own keyboard shortcut it should persist between upgrades of LibreOffice.
I never had any trouble with it in Linux. And that’s been the case for every single LTS version from Ubuntu 12 through 22.
The fact that a user could manually recreate this very shortcut seems to disprove that there is a conflict…
Please use the comment bubble, not solution if it isn’t a solution
LOL. Nothing happening on your system can ever disprove the issues that people had, and which forced them file issues that @EarnestAl cited.