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In Word 2007, left-align now acts as a toggle?
Can someone confirm: in Word 2003 I used to ensure that text was left-
aligned by selecting it and pressing Ctrl-L. Now in Word 2007 if text is already left-aligned, then when I press Ctrl-L it then formats the text to full justification. I'm not sure that I like Ctrl-L acting as a toggle since it assumes that you already know what kind of alignment you have before pressing it! |
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In Word 2007, left-align now acts as a toggle?
I can confirm your observation. In Word 2007, Ctrl+L (assigned to the LeftPara
command) toggles between left- aligned and justified. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Rick" wrote in message ... Can someone confirm: in Word 2003 I used to ensure that text was left- aligned by selecting it and pressing Ctrl-L. Now in Word 2007 if text is already left-aligned, then when I press Ctrl-L it then formats the text to full justification. I'm not sure that I like Ctrl-L acting as a toggle since it assumes that you already know what kind of alignment you have before pressing it! |
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In Word 2007, left-align now acts as a toggle?
I can confirm your observation. In Word 2007, Ctrl+L (assigned to the LeftPara command) toggles between left- aligned and justified. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Rick" wrote in message ... Can someone confirm: in Word 2003 I used to ensure that text was left- aligned by selecting it and pressing Ctrl-L. Now in Word 2007 if text is already left-aligned, then when I press Ctrl-L it then formats the text to full justification. I'm not sure that I like Ctrl-L acting as a toggle since it assumes that you already know what kind of alignment you have before pressing it! |
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In Word 2007, left-align now acts as a toggle?
Rick,
I can confirm that this is a change in behavior -- although not something I noticed until you mentioned it. I don't like it, either. Fortunately, there's a simple fix: - Press Alt+F8 to open the Macros dialog. - Set the "Macros in" dropdown to "Word commands". - Select the LeftPara command in the list. - Change the "Macros in" dropdown to "Normal.dotm (global template)". - Click the Create button. - When the macro editor window appears, just close it. - The next time you exit from Word, if you're asked whether to save changes in Normal.dotm, say yes. This creates a macro that runs when you press Ctrl+L or click the left-alignment button on the ribbon, and the macro unconditionally sets the alignment to Left without toggling. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Rick wrote: Can someone confirm: in Word 2003 I used to ensure that text was left- aligned by selecting it and pressing Ctrl-L. Now in Word 2007 if text is already left-aligned, then when I press Ctrl-L it then formats the text to full justification. I'm not sure that I like Ctrl-L acting as a toggle since it assumes that you already know what kind of alignment you have before pressing it! |
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In Word 2007, left-align now acts as a toggle?
Rick,
I can confirm that this is a change in behavior -- although not something I noticed until you mentioned it. I don't like it, either. Fortunately, there's a simple fix: - Press Alt+F8 to open the Macros dialog. - Set the "Macros in" dropdown to "Word commands". - Select the LeftPara command in the list. - Change the "Macros in" dropdown to "Normal.dotm (global template)". - Click the Create button. - When the macro editor window appears, just close it. - The next time you exit from Word, if you're asked whether to save changes in Normal.dotm, say yes. This creates a macro that runs when you press Ctrl+L or click the left-alignment button on the ribbon, and the macro unconditionally sets the alignment to Left without toggling. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Rick wrote: Can someone confirm: in Word 2003 I used to ensure that text was left- aligned by selecting it and pressing Ctrl-L. Now in Word 2007 if text is already left-aligned, then when I press Ctrl-L it then formats the text to full justification. I'm not sure that I like Ctrl-L acting as a toggle since it assumes that you already know what kind of alignment you have before pressing it! |
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In Word 2007, left-align now acts as a toggle?
Yup, that does it. Thanks much.
So you don't have to specify Ctrl-L as the 'trigger key' for this macro? It just automatically redirects any press of Ctrl-L from what it is by default to this macro instead. Excellent. On May 11, 10:38*am, "Jay Freedman" wrote: Rick, I can confirm that this is a change in behavior -- although not something I noticed until you mentioned it. I don't like it, either. Fortunately, there's a simple fix: - Press Alt+F8 to open the Macros dialog. - Set the "Macros in" dropdown to "Word commands". - Select the LeftPara command in the list. - Change the "Macros in" dropdown to "Normal.dotm (global template)". - Click the Create button. - When the macro editor window appears, just close it. - The next time you exit from Word, if you're asked whether to save changes in Normal.dotm, say yes. This creates a macro that runs when you press Ctrl+L or click the left-alignment button on the ribbon, and the macro unconditionally sets the alignment to Left without toggling. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP * * * *FAQ:http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Rick wrote: Can someone confirm: in Word 2003 I used to ensure that text was left- aligned by selecting it and pressing Ctrl-L. *Now in Word 2007 if text is already left-aligned, then when I press Ctrl-L it then formats the text to full justification. *I'm not sure that I like Ctrl-L acting as a toggle since it assumes that you already know what kind of alignment you have before pressing it!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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In Word 2007, left-align now acts as a toggle?
Yup, that does it. Thanks much.
So you don't have to specify Ctrl-L as the 'trigger key' for this macro? It just automatically redirects any press of Ctrl-L from what it is by default to this macro instead. Excellent. On May 11, 10:38*am, "Jay Freedman" wrote: Rick, I can confirm that this is a change in behavior -- although not something I noticed until you mentioned it. I don't like it, either. Fortunately, there's a simple fix: - Press Alt+F8 to open the Macros dialog. - Set the "Macros in" dropdown to "Word commands". - Select the LeftPara command in the list. - Change the "Macros in" dropdown to "Normal.dotm (global template)". - Click the Create button. - When the macro editor window appears, just close it. - The next time you exit from Word, if you're asked whether to save changes in Normal.dotm, say yes. This creates a macro that runs when you press Ctrl+L or click the left-alignment button on the ribbon, and the macro unconditionally sets the alignment to Left without toggling. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP * * * *FAQ:http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Rick wrote: Can someone confirm: in Word 2003 I used to ensure that text was left- aligned by selecting it and pressing Ctrl-L. *Now in Word 2007 if text is already left-aligned, then when I press Ctrl-L it then formats the text to full justification. *I'm not sure that I like Ctrl-L acting as a toggle since it assumes that you already know what kind of alignment you have before pressing it!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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