There’s a common saying in Germany that applies. Basically translates to: “Those Brits are crazy”, but the literal translation would be: “The Brits are spinning” (yarn).

Obelix knows best.

Marketing said it has to be a dedicated key, engineers were stuck between a rock and a hard place.

afaik: the complete sequence is triggered when when the copilot key is pressed. You’d intercept the F23-up immediately --> no way to detect when the physical key is released.

Yes that’s how I understood it. You can’t fix a missing key-up signal on the OS/driver level.
This isn’t Microsoft’s first offense, btw: https://github.com/Rast1234/copilot_key_on_my_keyboard?tab=readme-ov-file#how-these-keys-work

FYI: You can use the new Collabora Desktop Version of LibreOffice with a streamlined interface if you want.

https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/collabora-online-now-available-on-desktop/

Redirector - redirect pages to where you want them to go.

• make the youtube subscription feed the first thing you see / convert shorts without needing another addon
• fix stupid machine translated localizations of pages looking at you learn.microsoft.com or reddit does this too now
• overwrite / define custom duckduckgo search !bangs
• remove tracking parameters from urls
• etc…

Example Usage: https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector?tab=readme-ov-file#examples

This extension is how I learned to love RegEx.

You would never use DuckDuckGo as your default search engine and then type !archiveis in front of your urlbar visiting a news site.