[Ray19]

Thanks again Jay,
Excellent very clear advice. I appreciate the sharing of your experience and
knowledge. Thanks for taking the time to give very clear and detailed
explanations in answer to my queries.
Best wishes for future success in all your endeavors.
Ray19


"Jay Freedman" wrote:

It may be possible, if you know the menu command structure reasonably well.

For example, let's say you hit some key combination and a field with today's
date appears in the document. The menu command for this is Insert Date and
Time. Open the Tools Customize dialog and click the Keyboard button there to
open the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog. Choose the All Commands category. In the
right-hand list, you'll find the InsertDateTime command (that is, collapse the
menu path into one word), which shows the shortcut Alt+Shift+D.

It isn't always so simple. The menu command for the Track Changes feature is
Tools Track Changes. But the command in the shortcut dialog is
ToolsRevisionMarksToggle (probably because Track Changes was known as Revision
Marks in an earlier version, and MS felt it was important to maintain backward
compatibility). Once you find that, you'll see the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+E.


On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:43:01 -0800, Ray19
wrote:

Jay,
Thanks, your reply was very helpful. I was wondering - is there a way to
determine the mistruck key combinations from the feature that is activiated?
Thanks, for any additional info.
Ray19


"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:54:04 -0800, Ray19
wrote:

I am using Word 2003 on a Vista Ultimate system. I am not the most efficient
typist. Often when I mistrike a key or keys different unwanted features pop
up for installation or to be used. Nothing further can be entered until some
action is taken on the feature suddenly presented! This is very frustrating!
Is there any way to disable some (or all ) of these features that are
evidently easily accessable from the keyboard but become quite irritating for
a noivice typist who is just trying to create a simple Word document?
Thanks, in advance, for any advice provided.
Ray19

There are simple options in the Options dialog to disable some features (such as
the Insert key, which normally toggles between insert mode and overtype mode).
There isn't a simple way to disable many others, but there is a way.

If you can figure out which keystrokes cause the problem, you can disable the
command as follows: Press the Ctrl key, the Alt key, and the number-pad plus key
all at once. The cursor changes to a cloverleaf symbol. Then press the problem
key combination, and the Keyboard Shortcut dialog will open to the corresponding
command. Select the combination in the Current Keys box and click the Remove
button.

If you want the command to still be accessible from the keyboard but with some
other, less easily hit combination, you can assign the new combination by
putting the cursor in the Press New Shortcut Key box, pressing the new
combination, and clicking the Assign button.


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Jay Freedman
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