[mazorj]

"tomincnj" wrote in message
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mazorj,

Tks for the reply and for taking the time to run through the
procedures.

I've tried renaming Normal.dot to oldNormal.dot....but when I
restarted
Word....still couldn't chage the keys. Thus my question about
downloading a
Normal.dot file.

I would think that a new bare-bones normal.dot created from scratch by
Word would eliminate your problem if it is based in normal.dot. It's
doubtful that someone else's normal.dot would fix it.

If I had the original disks for my OFFICE SUITE I would have
re-installed
it....but after 4 moves in the past 8 yrs....latest one to and from
the
Philippines...I haven't been able to locate the disks yet.

When I got my first computer, a CP/M machine, I made dupes of all the
5-1/4" program floppies and put them in my bank safe deposit box. :-D

I'm no longer quite that paranoid but I do have all my important
software disks in a plastic container labeled "Computer Essentials".
They have survived two moves. Having them all together also made it
easier the two times that I had to restore a PC to its original state.

I haven't tried any of the other sites....might just purchase a new
laptop
new week and then purchase the latest Office package from best-buy.

The shortcut key problem isn't a showstopper but it's a PIA..lol.
Lucky for
me that I was able to create a 7,500+ Tagalog word/vocabulary list
before
having any problems. Gives me some time before I need to expand the
list.

Will post my final solution to the problem once I've made a
decision. Maybe
I'll get lucky and find the disks.

Tks again!

It would be great if you can find them because I'll stick by my
suggestion to try an uninstall/reinstall, then before and after you
reload your old normal.dot, see if you can create the shortcut keys
using an out-of-the-box set-up of Word. You also now have a few
hopefully helpful additional suggestions from Suzanne S. Barnhill to
explore. Good luck.