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Can I write code to customize Shortcut Menus in Word 2007?
As many of you are aware by now, M$ has RUINED one of the best features of
Word - the ability to customize Shortcut Menus. I have about 20 different Macros I use on a regular basis in Word. They used to reside on a nice little shortcut menu that I could right click and access within a Word Document to do useful things like applying a style or adding bullets WITHOUT having to click a button or touch the keyboard. Alas, M$ decides that I wasn't working hard enough, so they got rid of Shortcut Menu customization and gave me the "Quick Access Toolbar" instead. Let's see, 20 different highly specialized macros on the Quick Access Toolbar, all represented by a different little icon that I pray I can remember which is which. After all, we can't have any nasty old WORDS on our Quick Access Toolbar, can we? No, meaningless pictures are MUCH better. Or, I can assign my 20 macros to 20 different Keyboard Shortcuts. Yes, that's perfect. Ummm, now what does CTRL ALT P stand for again? Was that "Add Paragraph" or "Reformat Hard Drive"? Yep, why would I want Shortcut Menus that described exact what everything was when I can THIS cryptic mess instead? THE POINT: Ok, now that I vented. Can I write some code that will create new Shortcut Menu's (like I do in Access) or have the eliminated that option as well? |
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Can I write code to customize Shortcut Menus in Word 2007?
Try this:
http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribbon...izer/index.php. "Bill Mitchell" wrote in message ... As many of you are aware by now, M$ has RUINED one of the best features of Word - the ability to customize Shortcut Menus. I have about 20 different Macros I use on a regular basis in Word. They used to reside on a nice little shortcut menu that I could right click and access within a Word Document to do useful things like applying a style or adding bullets WITHOUT having to click a button or touch the keyboard. Alas, M$ decides that I wasn't working hard enough, so they got rid of Shortcut Menu customization and gave me the "Quick Access Toolbar" instead. Let's see, 20 different highly specialized macros on the Quick Access Toolbar, all represented by a different little icon that I pray I can remember which is which. After all, we can't have any nasty old WORDS on our Quick Access Toolbar, can we? No, meaningless pictures are MUCH better. Or, I can assign my 20 macros to 20 different Keyboard Shortcuts. Yes, that's perfect. Ummm, now what does CTRL ALT P stand for again? Was that "Add Paragraph" or "Reformat Hard Drive"? Yep, why would I want Shortcut Menus that described exact what everything was when I can THIS cryptic mess instead? THE POINT: Ok, now that I vented. Can I write some code that will create new Shortcut Menu's (like I do in Access) or have the eliminated that option as well? |
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Can I write code to customize Shortcut Menus in Word 2007?
See http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Bill Mitchell wrote: As many of you are aware by now, M$ has RUINED one of the best features of Word - the ability to customize Shortcut Menus. I have about 20 different Macros I use on a regular basis in Word. They used to reside on a nice little shortcut menu that I could right click and access within a Word Document to do useful things like applying a style or adding bullets WITHOUT having to click a button or touch the keyboard. Alas, M$ decides that I wasn't working hard enough, so they got rid of Shortcut Menu customization and gave me the "Quick Access Toolbar" instead. Let's see, 20 different highly specialized macros on the Quick Access Toolbar, all represented by a different little icon that I pray I can remember which is which. After all, we can't have any nasty old WORDS on our Quick Access Toolbar, can we? No, meaningless pictures are MUCH better. Or, I can assign my 20 macros to 20 different Keyboard Shortcuts. Yes, that's perfect. Ummm, now what does CTRL ALT P stand for again? Was that "Add Paragraph" or "Reformat Hard Drive"? Yep, why would I want Shortcut Menus that described exact what everything was when I can THIS cryptic mess instead? THE POINT: Ok, now that I vented. Can I write some code that will create new Shortcut Menu's (like I do in Access) or have the eliminated that option as well? |
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Can I write code to customize Shortcut Menus in Word 2007?
Thanks,
Those are nice but I am still trying to figure out why M$ willfully and with malice of forethought DESTROYED a great product. Their only response seems to be "just keep using it - you'll get to love it". Well, I've been using it and I HATE it more every day. I've tried having both versions of Word on my machine at same time but it plays havock with some of the mail merge code I've written to work with Access. It's amazing that we are forced to hack a BRAND NEW RELEASE just to make it halfway useable. It reminds me of the Seinfled line - "so who were the ad wizards that came up with this one?..." "Graham Mayor" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Bill Mitchell wrote: As many of you are aware by now, M$ has RUINED one of the best features of Word - the ability to customize Shortcut Menus. I have about 20 different Macros I use on a regular basis in Word. They used to reside on a nice little shortcut menu that I could right click and access within a Word Document to do useful things like applying a style or adding bullets WITHOUT having to click a button or touch the keyboard. Alas, M$ decides that I wasn't working hard enough, so they got rid of Shortcut Menu customization and gave me the "Quick Access Toolbar" instead. Let's see, 20 different highly specialized macros on the Quick Access Toolbar, all represented by a different little icon that I pray I can remember which is which. After all, we can't have any nasty old WORDS on our Quick Access Toolbar, can we? No, meaningless pictures are MUCH better. Or, I can assign my 20 macros to 20 different Keyboard Shortcuts. Yes, that's perfect. Ummm, now what does CTRL ALT P stand for again? Was that "Add Paragraph" or "Reformat Hard Drive"? Yep, why would I want Shortcut Menus that described exact what everything was when I can THIS cryptic mess instead? THE POINT: Ok, now that I vented. Can I write some code that will create new Shortcut Menu's (like I do in Access) or have the eliminated that option as well? |
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Can I write code to customize Shortcut Menus in Word 2007?
Does this method allow me to create my own Shortcut Menus to use within the
body of the document? "Graham Mayor" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Bill Mitchell wrote: As many of you are aware by now, M$ has RUINED one of the best features of Word - the ability to customize Shortcut Menus. I have about 20 different Macros I use on a regular basis in Word. They used to reside on a nice little shortcut menu that I could right click and access within a Word Document to do useful things like applying a style or adding bullets WITHOUT having to click a button or touch the keyboard. Alas, M$ decides that I wasn't working hard enough, so they got rid of Shortcut Menu customization and gave me the "Quick Access Toolbar" instead. Let's see, 20 different highly specialized macros on the Quick Access Toolbar, all represented by a different little icon that I pray I can remember which is which. After all, we can't have any nasty old WORDS on our Quick Access Toolbar, can we? No, meaningless pictures are MUCH better. Or, I can assign my 20 macros to 20 different Keyboard Shortcuts. Yes, that's perfect. Ummm, now what does CTRL ALT P stand for again? Was that "Add Paragraph" or "Reformat Hard Drive"? Yep, why would I want Shortcut Menus that described exact what everything was when I can THIS cryptic mess instead? THE POINT: Ok, now that I vented. Can I write some code that will create new Shortcut Menu's (like I do in Access) or have the eliminated that option as well? |
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Can I write code to customize Shortcut Menus in Word 2007?
No. They go on the add-ins tab of the ribbon
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Bill Mitchell wrote: Does this method allow me to create my own Shortcut Menus to use within the body of the document? "Graham Mayor" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Bill Mitchell wrote: As many of you are aware by now, M$ has RUINED one of the best features of Word - the ability to customize Shortcut Menus. I have about 20 different Macros I use on a regular basis in Word. They used to reside on a nice little shortcut menu that I could right click and access within a Word Document to do useful things like applying a style or adding bullets WITHOUT having to click a button or touch the keyboard. Alas, M$ decides that I wasn't working hard enough, so they got rid of Shortcut Menu customization and gave me the "Quick Access Toolbar" instead. Let's see, 20 different highly specialized macros on the Quick Access Toolbar, all represented by a different little icon that I pray I can remember which is which. After all, we can't have any nasty old WORDS on our Quick Access Toolbar, can we? No, meaningless pictures are MUCH better. Or, I can assign my 20 macros to 20 different Keyboard Shortcuts. Yes, that's perfect. Ummm, now what does CTRL ALT P stand for again? Was that "Add Paragraph" or "Reformat Hard Drive"? Yep, why would I want Shortcut Menus that described exact what everything was when I can THIS cryptic mess instead? THE POINT: Ok, now that I vented. Can I write some code that will create new Shortcut Menu's (like I do in Access) or have the eliminated that option as well? |
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Can I write code to customize Shortcut Menus in Word 2007?
Bill,
If it is any help, I have just talked to a M$ rep and found out how to reset the Right-Click Menu to original Default form. ------------------------------------ Close all MS Office Apps including Outlook. In regedit, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, go to Software-Microsoft-Office-12.0-Word. Rename Data to OldData Rename Options to OldOptions Close Regedit In RUN (Start Menu) enter %appdata% Goto Microsoft/Templates and make a back up of this folder. Erase folder contents. Start Word and the right-click menu should be reset to default ------------------------ It is evident that the manipulation takes place in the Data and Options folders in Regedit and that makes permanent changes to the Normal.dotm file. Maybe from that you can figure out how to create what you want in the right-click menus. Hope this helps. "Bill Mitchell" wrote: As many of you are aware by now, M$ has RUINED one of the best features of Word - the ability to customize Shortcut Menus. I have about 20 different Macros I use on a regular basis in Word. They used to reside on a nice little shortcut menu that I could right click and access within a Word Document to do useful things like applying a style or adding bullets WITHOUT having to click a button or touch the keyboard. Alas, M$ decides that I wasn't working hard enough, so they got rid of Shortcut Menu customization and gave me the "Quick Access Toolbar" instead. Let's see, 20 different highly specialized macros on the Quick Access Toolbar, all represented by a different little icon that I pray I can remember which is which. After all, we can't have any nasty old WORDS on our Quick Access Toolbar, can we? No, meaningless pictures are MUCH better. Or, I can assign my 20 macros to 20 different Keyboard Shortcuts. Yes, that's perfect. Ummm, now what does CTRL ALT P stand for again? Was that "Add Paragraph" or "Reformat Hard Drive"? Yep, why would I want Shortcut Menus that described exact what everything was when I can THIS cryptic mess instead? THE POINT: Ok, now that I vented. Can I write some code that will create new Shortcut Menu's (like I do in Access) or have the eliminated that option as well? |
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