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Black cross instead of the normal cursor
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 |
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Black cross instead of the normal cursor
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 |
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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 |
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Black cross instead of the normal cursor
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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marcus" wrote in message ... 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 |
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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 ... 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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marcus" wrote in message ... 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 |
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Well, I did try that one because that was what I first thought of, but
unfortunately I have that assigned to something else (it inserts a dagger), so I was unable to find it in the normal way. According to Word's Help, however: ALT+CTRL+= (equal sign) Add a toolbar button to a menu. When you type this shortcut key and then click a toolbar button, Microsoft Word adds the button to the appropriate menu. For example, click Bullets on the Formatting toolbar to add the Bullets command to the Format menu. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marcus" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marcus" wrote in message ... 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 |
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