From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: soft hyphenation (<ctrl><->) does not work in fedora's openoffice. Instead it is treated as a normal hyphen (-) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-1.1.3-11.5.fc3 and later How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open openoffice 2.Write some text an try <ctrl><-> 3. Actual Results: no soft hyphen Additional info: Same is true for the rawhide version openoffice.org-1.1.2-11.7 as of Nov. 21, 2004
As a workaround, try ctrl + the minus on the numeric keypad, instead of the minus on the top row *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 134649 ***