Re: About changing keys for different thesaurus
- From: tickpub@xxxxxxxx
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:41:06 -0800
Thank you, wherever you found it I am thankful. If you find any other
nuggets along the way on how to make 2003 work better please send them
out, that was very good.
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:23:09 -0000 "Griffiths, Steve"
<Steve.Griffiths@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I found out about this from reading a computer magazine where
> someone
> was complaining about the Office 2003 task pane and saying they
> preferred the dialogues offered by previous versions of Office. The
> magazine pointed out that the old dialogues are still there and gave
> the
> method of finding them. All I had to do was browse the list and look
> for
> items that looked like the thesaurus, assign the shortcut to them
> and
> see what happened.
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Mon 15/01/2007 23:00
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: About changing keys for different thesaurus
>
> Steve,
>
> That's really interesting. I never would have thought of that,
> because I
>
> just assumed that MS must have changed things so that the content of
> the
>
> thesaurus might be retained, but its older, simpler interface
> wasn't
> there
> in the coding anymore. And yet you think it is, if only you can
> reassign
>
> Shift F7 to call it up? How would you know what to do in this
> tools/customize menu? How would you find out just what to do?
>
> Thanks.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Griffiths, Steve" <Steve.Griffiths@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 2:41 PM
> Subject: RE: About changing keys for different thesaurus
>
>
> Yes is the short answer.
>
> My understanding is that coding for the old dialogue box that was
> used
> in
> Word 97/2000/2002 is still there in Word 2003, but there is also
> some
> coding
> for the new, task pane based thesaurus. Microsoft have pointed the
> Shift
> +
> F7 keystroke to the new thesaurus. My suggestion is that the
> keystroke
> can
> be pointed to the old dialogue box.
>
> If, for some reason it doesn't work, you ought to be able to go to
> the
> Customise Keyboard dialogue again and use the Reset button to undo
> the
> change you made.
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of tickpub@xxxxxxxx
> Sent: Mon 15/01/2007 20:24
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: About changing keys for different thesaurus
>
> Sorry, I accidently exited without saving your mesage. But I would
> like
> to know if I run word 2003 and go and change the assigned key stroke
> in
> the customization menu, even though I don't have 2002 of word, are
> you
> saying that the thesaurus will revert to my old favorite? What
> exaclty
> will take place and will I be able to change things back if it
> screws
> up?
> Thanks
> MMM
>
>
>
>
>
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