atw: Re: Assigning keyboard shortcuts in Word
- From: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:33:30 -0400
This useful trick is available in previous versions as well. Glad to see
that they've retained it in Word 2007!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Silcock
> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 11:18 PM
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: atw: Assigning keyboard shortcuts in Word
>
> I just discovered a useful tip for assigning keyboard
> shortcuts in Word. Maybe everyone knows it but me, but I
> found it when skimming through the Dummies Guide to Word 2007
> and it's one of those that I can't imagine finding by chance,
> so I thought it was worth sharing. It works in Word 2007 for
> Windows, but I haven't tested it in any other version.
>
> You press Ctrl + Alt + (+ on the numeric keypad). (That is,
> hold down Control and Alt and press the plus key on the
> numeric keypad.) The cursor changes to a symbol I normally
> associate with a Mac environment - the symbol you find on the
> Mac's Command key. Select any command on the ribbon and up
> comes a dialog box that allows you to define, or redefine, a
> keyboard shortcut for that command. Sometimes it doesn't
> quite work: for instance, I tried the Narrow margins command
> and it only let me define a shortcut for Page Setup. But I
> still find it useful.
>
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