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by memling 1026 days ago
One of the (maybe few) niceties of MS Office these days is that you can search through a list of most available commands through a simple Alt+Q and typing. This greatly improved my productivity for some common tasks, and it's the sort of discoverability that'd be helpful to make LibreOffice easier to use.

For my part, though, I'm typically authoring print documents in LyX, since I don't have to exchange documents routinely. If I do have to share Word-compatible documents, I'll sometimes use LO Writer or else convert from a text format to .docx using pandoc.
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commoner 1026 days ago
LibreOffice has the same feature. Type Shift+Esc or go to Help > Search Commands to activate the head-up display. You can then search for the command you want.

GIF demo: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/08/libreoffice-7-2-release-...

Documentation: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/option...

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memling 1025 days ago
TIL! Thanks a bunch, I'll definitely check this out.
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extraduder_ire 1026 days ago
I really miss the HUD feature the Unity DE had for searching through application menus, which I used for a similar purpose.

Closest I've seen is how it works on macOS.

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