Customize Keyboard Shortcuts Help

[vascanj]

Hi, I'm a new Open Office user. I use Open Office V. 3.1 or 3.2, on Mac OSx. I've been trying to customize my keyboard shortcuts in Open office lately, because I am irked that it doesn't have a keyboard shortcut for Zooming, Zooming in and out, ect. I don't like the fact that I have to adjust the zoom by actually going and tying in the percent of zoom. I just want to press command + and command - and have it zoom out for me like that, kinda like how you zoom in on webpages in Firefox. So, I changed the keyboard shortcuts for Zoom, zoom in, and zoom out useing the 'customize' option in the tools menu. But when i clicked okay, and I used those shortcuts (the ones I put for zooming), they didn't work! I used 'command -' for example and it still just gave me a hyphen. Could someone help me so I could make the shortcuts for zoom? Thanks.

[Robert Tucker]

Confirm on Linux Fedora 13 – cannot assign a shortcut (that works) to zoom in or out.

You can of course hold Ctrl and scroll with mouse or use the slider at the bottom right of the OpenOffice GUI.

[lgusaas]

You can of course hold Ctrl and scroll with mouse

On a Mac that would be: Hold Command and scroll with mouse (or, in my case, trackpad).

[vascanj]

But what if the keyboard shortcut you put that goes to the zoom menu doesn't go away? I put the keyboard shortcuts for zoom. One for zoom in, one for zoom out, and one to get to the zoom menu. Only one of them worked. #3. Now it doesn't want to go away. Should I just click on reset? Please help. Thanks.

[Robert Tucker]

Tools>Customize...>Keyboard, select the "Shortcut keys" and then click "Delete".

[vascanj]

No IDID THAT. I did that then changed it back to what it was in teh beginning. But it still does the same zoom thingy. Should i reset then?

[Robert Tucker]

I don't seem to have that problem. Clicking "Delete" for a shortcut I have created and no longer want clears it.

[matthewlmcclure]

On a Mac that would be: Hold Command and scroll with mouse (or, in my case, trackpad).

How can I disable Command-Scroll zooming? I routinely do it unintentionally because of the scoll inertia.

[qaz1qaz1qa]

As this thread is now getting attention from a similar thread I will post a responce to the above question

How can I disable Command-Scroll zooming? I routinely do it unintentionally because of the scoll inertia.

Tools > Preferences >
+OpenOffice.Org + View "Middle Mouse Button"

This disables the click of the middle mouse creating the navigation arrow.