Unfortunately, *recorded* macros to open dialog boxes fail because you have
to actually do something in the dialog box for it to be recorded. If you
know the VBA you can probably *write* a macro to do it. (It would involve
the terms "Dialogs" and "Show," but beyond that, I'm clueless.)

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"jodzeee" wrote in message
ups.com...
If I open my old template where I had the shortcut stored, I can
pretend I'm assigning the shortcut to something else and it says,
Currently assigned to: FormatBordersAndShading

and it works fine in that template.

But in my new normal.dot, this is NOT an option! How frustrating. I'm
sure there are others missing, but I'm focusing on this one right now
because I use it a lot!

Any ideas of how I could create a macro to bring up the dialog box and
assign a keyboard shortcut to that?

Jodi