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Default Black cross instead of the normal cursor

Thanks!
Your answer brought me on the right track: it is the key combination
"ALT+Ctrl+=" (the third key is the "=/+" key on the normal keyboard)!
And I ment the mouse pinter, of course, but if you wrote about the
cloverleaf after pressing ALT+CTRL++, you must have understood me correctly.
Unortunately, I have not found out, yet, what the keyboard shortcut
"ALT+Ctrl+=" is for...

Marcus


Uzytkownik "Suzanne S. Barnhill" napisal w wiadomosci
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Possibly it is Alt+Ctrl++, which Word's Help topic "Keyboard shortcuts"
defines as follows:

ALT+CTRL++ (plus key on numeric keypad)
Customize the shortcut key for a menu command. When you type this shortcut
key and then select a menu command, the Customize Keyboard dialog box
opens
so you can add, change, or remove the shortcut key.

What you get with that is not really a plus sign, though, but a character
sometimes described as a cloverleaf (character 122 in the Wingdings font).
I
thought there was something that produced a plus sign (as Alt+Ctrl+Hyphen
produces a "minus"), but I'm not finding it at the moment.

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"Marcus" wrote in message
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Well, that's exactly what I did. You are right, it does not matter, if
you
mean being any trouble or problem for me. But I just want to understand

what
happened and to be able to do it again. And to use this function I did
not
know before :-))

Marcus


Uzytkownik "garfield-n-odie [MVP]"


napisal w wiadomosci ...
Why does it matter? If it happens again, press the Escape key to reset
the cursor.

Marcus wrote:

When working on a Word document, I pressed by accident a key

combination
I cannot remember anymore. Suddenly, the normal cursor changed into a
small black cross. Afterwards I tried to do it again, by I could not

find
the correct key combination. Does anybody know what I did and what the
function of that black cross is?



Thanks a lot for your help.

Marcus