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diff --git a/doc/kspread/config.docbook b/doc/kspread/config.docbook new file mode 100644 index 00000000..23f1a29f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/kspread/config.docbook @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +<chapter id="configure"> +<chapterinfo> +<authorgroup> +<author> +<firstname>Pamela</firstname> +<surname>Robert</surname> +<affiliation> +<address><email>[email protected]</email></address> +</affiliation> +</author> +<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> +</authorgroup> +</chapterinfo> +<title>Configuring &kspread; Shortcuts and Toolbars</title> + +<sect1 id="configshort"> +<title>Shortcuts</title> +<para>To change the shortcut key arrangements used by &kspread; select +<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure Shortcuts... +</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. This will launch a dialog box as shown below. +</para> +<mediaobject> +<imageobject> +<imagedata fileref="shortcut1.png" format="PNG"/> +</imageobject> +<textobject> +<phrase>Shortcut config screenshot 1</phrase> +</textobject> +</mediaobject> +<para>Search through the list box to find the action you want to add or +change the shortcut keys for and select it by <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> +clicking on the name. By entering the name of the action in the search bar at the +top you can quickly find the desired action. You will then be able to change the shortcut +by selecting the <guilabel>None</guilabel>, <guilabel>Default</guilabel> or +<guilabel>Custom</guilabel> radio button or by clicking on the large button in +the <guilabel>Shortcut for Selected Action</guilabel> area.</para> +<para>The <guilabel>Configure Shortcut</guilabel> dialog box will then open. +</para> +<mediaobject> +<imageobject> +<imagedata fileref="shortcut2.png" format="PNG"/> +</imageobject> +<textobject> +<phrase>Simple shortcut configuration</phrase> +</textobject> +</mediaobject> +<para>You can now simply press the key combination you want to act as the +shortcut, for example <keycombo action="simul"> +&Ctrl;&Shift;<keycap>S</keycap></keycombo>. The <guilabel>Configure +Shortcut</guilabel> dialog box will then close by itself as soon as the shortcut +is configured. +</para> +<mediaobject> +<imageobject> +<imagedata fileref="shortcut3.png" format="PNG"/> +</imageobject> +<textobject> +<phrase>Advanced shortcut configuration</phrase> +</textobject> +</mediaobject> +<para> +You can also click on the <guibutton>Advanced >></guibutton> button in the +<guilabel>Configure Shortcut</guilabel> dialog to get more options. +There you can configure a <guilabel>Primary shortcut:</guilabel> and a secondary +<guilabel>Alternate shortcut:</guilabel>. +You can even choose <guilabel>Multi-key mode</guilabel>, which lets you add additional +keys to the shortcut. +</para> +<para> +Configuring the shortcut with the simple dialog sets the primary +shortcut. +</para> + +<sect2 id="userdefmenus"> +<title>User Defined Menus</title> +<para>You can add your own pop up menu to &kspread; so that pressing one key +combination will make the menu appear then pressing a second key, or using the +<keysym>Up arrow</keysym> and <keysym>Down arrow</keysym> keys and pressing +<keysym>Enter</keysym>, will select an item from it.</para> +<para>To do this add a <guilabel>Custom</guilabel> shortcut for each of the +actions you want to appear in the menu and in the <guilabel>Configure Shortcut +</guilabel> dialog check the <guilabel>Multi-key mode</guilabel> box, press the +key combination that you want to bring up your new menu then, separately, +press the key that will choose that item from the menu.</para> +</sect2> +</sect1> + +<sect1 id="configtoolbars"> +<title>Toolbars</title> +<para>&kspread; has five toolbars: <guilabel>File</guilabel>, +<guilabel>Edit</guilabel>, <guilabel>Navigation</guilabel>, +<guilabel>Format</guilabel> and <guilabel>Color/Border</guilabel>. +each of which may or may not be shown depending on the choices made in the +<guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu.</para> +<para>You can choose whether a toolbar appears at the <guimenuitem>Top</guimenuitem>, +<guimenuitem>Left</guimenuitem>, <guimenuitem>Right</guimenuitem> or +<guimenuitem>Bottom</guimenuitem> of &kspread;'s window by <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> clicking on +the toolbar, which brings up the <guilabel>Toolbar Menu</guilabel>, and making +a selection from the <guisubmenu>Orientation</guisubmenu> sub menu. This +<guilabel>Toolbar Menu</guilabel> also has sub menus for choosing whether the +toolbar displays icons, text or both, and the size of the icons.</para> + +<para>Another way of moving a toolbar is by positioning the mouse pointer over +the two vertical bars at the left end of each toolbar and holding the +<mousebutton>left</mousebutton> mouse button down while you drag the toolbar +to the wanted position. When you drag the toolbar in this way you can release +the mouse button when it is some distance from any of &kspread;'s window +sides, and then you will get a floating toolbar, which is not locked to any +particular part of &kspread;'s window and can in fact be moved outside of +the window. To put a floating toolbar back into one of the traditional +positions <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> click on its titlebar to bring +up the <guilabel>Toolbar Menu</guilabel> then choose one of the options in +the <guisubmenu>Orientation</guisubmenu> sub menu.</para> +<para>You can also <quote>flatten</quote> a toolbar by <mousebutton>left +</mousebutton> clicking on the two vertical bars at the left end of the +toolbar or by selecting <menuchoice><guisubmenu>Orientation</guisubmenu> +<guimenuitem>Flat</guimenuitem></menuchoice> from the <guilabel>Toolbar +Menu</guilabel>. A <quote>flattened</quote> toolbar appears as a small +rectangle containing two horizontal bars just under &kspread;'s Menubar. It +can be restored to normal by <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> clicking on it. +</para> +<para>Selecting <guimenuitem>Configure Toolbars...</guimenuitem> from the +<guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu will bring up a dialog box which lets you add +buttons to or remove them from &kspread;'s toolbars.</para> +<para>To use this <guilabel>Configure Toolbars</guilabel> dialog box first +select a toolbar from the <guilabel>Toolbar:</guilabel> combo box. The +right hand <guilabel>Current actions:</guilabel> window will then show the +buttons currently present on the toolbar. You can remove a button by selecting +it in this window then pressing the left arrow button, or move it around by +pressing the up and down arrow buttons. To add a new button to the toolbar +select it in the <guilabel>Available actions:</guilabel> list then press the +right arrow button.</para> +</sect1> +</chapter> + +<!-- +Local Variables: +mode: sgml +sgml-parent-document: ("index.docbook" "book" "chapter") +sgml-minimize-attributes:nil +sgml-general-insert-case:lower +sgml-indent-step:0 +sgml-indent-data:nil +End: +--> |