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In ms-office-word shortcut-key for special characters can be applied as following:

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But now I am using Libre-office Which is pre-installed with Ubuntu! and want to put shortcut-key for special characters. But there is not such option available:

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It is difficult for me to write every-time with Unicode Ctrl+Uthen055thenEnter(0055 is only example for U which is not special-character).

Thus, Help me to add shortcut-key or any other method as I am leaving ms-office and working with libre-office Version: 4.2.3.3 (open-source and pre-installed with Ubuntu 14.04)

Pandya
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    It's done through the desktop environment, not through LibreOffice itself. – Sparhawk May 14 '14 at 06:47
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    +1 for Sparhawks comment. [Here's a tutorial](http://askubuntu.com/questions/47496/how-can-i-add-a-custom-compose-key-sequence) on setting up custom compose sequences. Another option would be to use [LO's autocorrect](http://askubuntu.com/questions/201960/how-do-you-write-a-macro-for-a-special-character-in-libreoffice/201967). – Glutanimate May 14 '14 at 13:52

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I don't know how to solve this with the built in tools.

Nevertheless, I use AutoKey to insert text snippets like my address system wide. I guess you could just add a snippet containing the special character and set up a shortcut for it. AutoKey offers a lot of configuration possibilities for triggering snippets.

As my system is broken in the moment, I can't test it. Hope it helps anyways.

Joshua Gleitze
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  • The snippets I am talking about are actually called "Phrases" in AutoKey. Here is a nice tutorial: http://saravananthirumuruganathan.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/autokey-linux-utility-for-text-substitution-hotkeys-and-desktop-automation/ – Joshua Gleitze May 14 '14 at 12:28