New behavior - Alt+0176 opens Properties deck

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#1

As of yesterday afternoon whenever I tried to put a degree symbol (Alt+0176 ° ) in a spreadsheet the Properties deck also appears. This happens only in LibreOffice, not any other places.
Three hours researching and attempting various changes have done no good. Help, please!

Version: 7.6.4.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: e19e193f88cd6c0525a17fb7a176ed8e6a3e2aa1
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

#2

It’s a bug:

tdf#158112

#6

Thanks to all respondents, I learned something from each of you. Also, the latest version of LO has now been installed and not only did the “problem” go away but I’ve now learned a different way to achieve that task.

Thanks once again!

#3

Alt+<decimal> is a Windows-specific procedure to insert “uncommon” (i.e. not present on keyboard) characters using legacy encoding (the encoding used with old 256-character CPxxx alphabets).

LO has a more universal procedure (and it works in all components) for any Unicode character:

  1. type U+ (literally letter U, upper or lower case, and plus sign), followed by hexadecimal encoding
  2. press Alt+X

As an example, the degree sign is U+00B0 DEGREE SIGN. Therefore your type U+00b0, then Alt+X.

If there is no ambiguity, i.e. what precedes in no hexadecimal digit, you can skip U+.

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#5

There is another possibility. There is a line like this in the Replacement table
image

Of course, pressing space-b-zero-Alt+X is much easier than writing :degree:

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