Special characters in Libreoffice for mac -- how to use keystrokes?

I have to post this here because the Libreoffice help website won't let me post my question. Every time I click on 'ask your question' it takes me to the top of the 'ask your question page.' These folks need to work on this.

I like the app, but there are some things that are frustrating. One of them is trying to insert a special character. It's tedious to have to choose it from the menu and then click on insert. There has to be a way of using keystrokes to do it, but I can't figure it out. I read something about using the unicode combinations for each special character, but I just don't get it.

They really need to work on their help menus and such.

Has anyone else tried to do this, and if so can you help me out?

Check out this article and guide. It might help.

I wrote some step by step instructions for entering Unicode on the Mac. I'll try to find it. It's on iphoneforums.net. Slydude linked to it from his Sunday chat show notes a few weeks ago.

It's in this thread along with keyboard shortcuts.

http://www.iphoneforums.net/threads/how-to-use-keyboards-shortcuts.77928/#post-400819