One of my early Gateway keyboards had an unshifted asterisk down near the
spacebar, perhaps on what is now the key that brings up the context menu. It
was very handy in the old DOS days when asterisks were often part of a
command line but I guess fell out of favor in Windows (especially as
keyboards gave up space for the dedicated "Windows keys," but you have to
wonder whether Ctrl+* would have worked with that key.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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In this particular case, I think Ctrl+Shift+8 is more general, as I would
imagine that most (or even all?) keyboards have the numbers below the
function keys (that is above the letters).
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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And I can never remember whether the universal shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+8
(regardless of what Shift+8 is) or Ctrl+* (regardless of where the
asterisk is), so I'm constantly dithering over giving that.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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Yes, you are right: if the screentip says Ctrl+ that is what you need
to type, of course, no matter which specific keys you have to press to
achieve .
It's a bigger problem that shortcuts are different in different
languages
or keyboard layouts; Peter mentions the case of Ctrl+Shift+8 (ShowAll)
which on my system is Ctrl+(. Not surprisingly, Shift+8 inserts ( on my
system.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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But presumably Ctrl+ is the correct shortcut regardless of how it is
achieved? I think that's the point. If you have to shift to get , then
Shift is part of . For those of us with a U.S. keyboard, Ctrl+ would
be
Ctrl+Shift+Comma, but for you, obviously, it would just be Ctrl+.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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Yes. For example, on my Swedish keyboard, is Shift+.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Yves Dhondt" wrote in message
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Wouldn't that depend on your keyboard layout?
Yves
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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They amount to the same thing, as Ctrl+ is actually
Ctrl+Shift+Period.
You can't type without pressing Shift.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Huber57" wrote in message
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Does anyone know if MS takes feedback for correcting errors for its
office
suite?
I found a tiny mistake with Word 2007. When you hover over the
Grow
Font
button on the Home ribbon, it shows a shortcut key of Ctrl + .
When
the
shortcut key is actually Ctrl + Shift + .
I know it is minor but it may help someone along the way.