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First of all, I have to admit that i'm a keyboard guy. :-) Keyboard shortcuts are fine - for those who are familiar with the keyboard and its key combinations.

Most shortcuts mentioned in the article are really ordinary functions that you find across word prrocessors since... 1990, or even earlier, when text processors were in text mode. They are not fantastic in their relationship to OpenOffice - they are standard stuff. This includes:
- Inserting a page break
- Moving around the document
- Selecting without the mouse

Regarding the page break, let me add that there are three main kinds of breaks, associated with the return key:
1. forced line break: Shift + Return
2. paragraph break (or new enum or list entry): Enter
3. page break: Ctrl + Return

Regarding movement and selection, you can apply any from the movement keys together with the Shift key in order to select, for example Ctrl + Left / Right moves word-wise, and Ctrl + Shift + Left / Right selects word-wise.

Some of them were new to me:
- Moving paragraphs (never needed this)
- Applying styles and formatting as you type
- Applying list levels as you type
- Inserting a non-numbered paragraph into a numbered list
- Superscript and Subscript (with varying key combinations in other applications, for example Ctrl + H, Ctrl + T in the german version of WinWord 1.1a, there paragraph adjustment Ctrl + L, Ctrl + Z, Ctrl + R and Ctrl + B according to the german translations (hoch, tief, linksbündig, zentriert, rechtsbündig, Blocksatz))
- Moving objects and images

The article was an interesting inspiration to me. Allthough I do most of my text processing stuff with LaTeX, I have several customers using OpenOffice who will be glad about a hardcopy of this article.

Still most important: Ctrl + S; reason: "I didn't know I have to save my documents, I thought the PC would take care of them by itself." :-)