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How do I REMOVE a file name from the Work menu? I read somewhere how to put
them on there (with file open, choose Work/Add to work menu), but I can't find even that information anywhere in help, nor any mention of the existence of the Work menu. |
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Hello MKT-Chicago,
Press Ctrl + Alt + - Your cursor will change to a thick black line. Choose Work and click on the field to be removed. There is a full explanation on: http://addbalance.com/word/workmenu.htm#PageStart Judith "MKT-Chicago" wrote: How do I REMOVE a file name from the Work menu? I read somewhere how to put them on there (with file open, choose Work/Add to work menu), but I can't find even that information anywhere in help, nor any mention of the existence of the Work menu. |
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You can remove items from the Work menu by typing the CMD, OPT and - keys
(that's the minus key from the main keyboard), then selecting the item from the menu. This works for any menu item in Word so be very careful! -- Carol A. Bratt, MCP "MKT-Chicago" wrote: How do I REMOVE a file name from the Work menu? I read somewhere how to put them on there (with file open, choose Work/Add to work menu), but I can't find even that information anywhere in help, nor any mention of the existence of the Work menu. |
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JudithJubilee-
Thanks very much, that sure does it! But although the page at the link you provided has "Work Menu in Microsoft Word" as an entry in a long list of links, it's one of two that's not hyperlinked to anything. MKT-Chicago "JudithJubilee" wrote: Hello MKT-Chicago, Press Ctrl + Alt + - Your cursor will change to a thick black line. Choose Work and click on the field to be removed. There is a full explanation on: http://addbalance.com/word/workmenu.htm#PageStart Judith "MKT-Chicago" wrote: How do I REMOVE a file name from the Work menu? I read somewhere how to put them on there (with file open, choose Work/Add to work menu), but I can't find even that information anywhere in help, nor any mention of the existence of the Work menu. |
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Carol-
Thanks very much. It sounds like you're a Mac user, but the directions exactly parallel the Windows ones provided by JudithJubilee. Thanks also for the warning that the technique also works on other menus - I didn't know you could remove entries from normal menus. MKT-Chicago "Carol" wrote: You can remove items from the Work menu by typing the CMD, OPT and - keys (that's the minus key from the main keyboard), then selecting the item from the menu. This works for any menu item in Word so be very careful! -- Carol A. Bratt, MCP "MKT-Chicago" wrote: How do I REMOVE a file name from the Work menu? I read somewhere how to put them on there (with file open, choose Work/Add to work menu), but I can't find even that information anywhere in help, nor any mention of the existence of the Work menu. |
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Opps! Try this:
http://www.addbalance.com/word/workmenu.htm and scroll down. "MKT-Chicago" wrote: JudithJubilee- Thanks very much, that sure does it! But although the page at the link you provided has "Work Menu in Microsoft Word" as an entry in a long list of links, it's one of two that's not hyperlinked to anything. MKT-Chicago "JudithJubilee" wrote: Hello MKT-Chicago, Press Ctrl + Alt + - Your cursor will change to a thick black line. Choose Work and click on the field to be removed. There is a full explanation on: http://addbalance.com/word/workmenu.htm#PageStart Judith "MKT-Chicago" wrote: How do I REMOVE a file name from the Work menu? I read somewhere how to put them on there (with file open, choose Work/Add to work menu), but I can't find even that information anywhere in help, nor any mention of the existence of the Work menu. |
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Aha - I didn't realize how much further the page went! (I took the
digression to a list of historical events as being the beginning of the end of the page, silly me.) That site looks like a treasure trove. Thanks again. MKT-Chicago "JudithJubilee" wrote: Opps! Try this: http://www.addbalance.com/word/workmenu.htm and scroll down. "MKT-Chicago" wrote: JudithJubilee- Thanks very much, that sure does it! But although the page at the link you provided has "Work Menu in Microsoft Word" as an entry in a long list of links, it's one of two that's not hyperlinked to anything. MKT-Chicago "JudithJubilee" wrote: Hello MKT-Chicago, Press Ctrl + Alt + - Your cursor will change to a thick black line. Choose Work and click on the field to be removed. There is a full explanation on: http://addbalance.com/word/workmenu.htm#PageStart Judith "MKT-Chicago" wrote: How do I REMOVE a file name from the Work menu? I read somewhere how to put them on there (with file open, choose Work/Add to work menu), but I can't find even that information anywhere in help, nor any mention of the existence of the Work menu. |
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http://addbalance.com/word/workmenu.htm
Be careful of the keyboard command because it will remove any command from any menu. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "MKT-Chicago" wrote in message ... How do I REMOVE a file name from the Work menu? I read somewhere how to put them on there (with file open, choose Work/Add to work menu), but I can't find even that information anywhere in help, nor any mention of the existence of the Work menu. |
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I use Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac on Macs running OS X 10.4.7. I have
happily used Work menus for years. Suddenly I lost the ability to remove items from the Work menu on my G4 laptop. Astounded, I tried it on my office desktop, and it still worked (I think it was command-option-minus). But sure enough, a few weeks later, after I'd automatically updated Office, it stopped working on my desktop as well. One of the updates seems to have disabled the feature, but I can't reenable it. I cannot delete any items in my Work menu, making it nearly useless: both Work menus are now far too long and include documents I completed months ago. I've tried various other key combinations in case the combination somehow changed (control-option-minus, control-alt-minus, command-alt-minus, you name it), but nothing works. These other commands just move the highlighting between the top and bottom items on the Work menu. I also can't get a minus to remove anything from any other menu, either, but I never used that function anyway. Can anyone suggest a way to re-enable the command or an alternative command to remove items from the Work menu? |
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Why does your subject line say Word 2003 (windows version) when you are
using Word 2004 on a Mac? Such typos can create great confusion. Anyhow, this is a known issue on the Mac--I think one of the Universal Access commands in System Preferences overrides cmd-option-minus. Here's a good explanation: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...rd/browse_frm/ thread/75da70f31d369951/b9a9df06e9453349 For future reference, See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord, MacExcel, and other MS programs for the Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups It's hard to tell when a problem is Mac-specific--in general, if you want to know how to do something, either the general or Mac-specific groups will work. If something is going wrong, try the Mac groups first. I'm guessing that you updated the OS at the same time as you updated Office, and Apple might have turned on some Access features by default in a recent update--my VoiceOver came on randomly and the computer began explaining what I was doing. On 9/18/06 6:30 AM, "NGD" wrote: I use Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac on Macs running OS X 10.4.7. I have happily used Work menus for years. Suddenly I lost the ability to remove items from the Work menu on my G4 laptop. Astounded, I tried it on my office desktop, and it still worked (I think it was command-option-minus). But sure enough, a few weeks later, after I'd automatically updated Office, it stopped working on my desktop as well. One of the updates seems to have disabled the feature, but I can't reenable it. I cannot delete any items in my Work menu, making it nearly useless: both Work menus are now far too long and include documents I completed months ago. I've tried various other key combinations in case the combination somehow changed (control-option-minus, control-alt-minus, command-alt-minus, you name it), but nothing works. These other commands just move the highlighting between the top and bottom items on the Work menu. I also can't get a minus to remove anything from any other menu, either, but I never used that function anyway. Can anyone suggest a way to re-enable the command or an alternative command to remove items from the Work menu? -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Daiya,
I do appreciate your response. I posted in the Word 2003 forum because I couldn't *find* the 2004 for Mac forum; one of the links you gave me below worked. Thanks. Anyway, I've returned so that anyone else who comes to the wrong forum as I did will get the discouraging news: I'm afraid these solutions don't seem to work anymore. I found what looked like some good answers in the links you gave, and I tried them all. option-command-8 will give me a minus sign cursor--which disappears when I try to use it on the Work menu. Another link gave me Macros to remove items from the Work menu. I finally asked my husband, who works in Visual Basic and could analyze these but hadn't known enough about Word to write one himself, why they didn't work. The answer? He found that the "Delete Item from Work Menu" command simply doesn't exist anymore on any of the three Macs we have between us. Turning the cursor to a minus sign won't do anything as a result, and a macro can't get you to a command that seems not to exist anymore. I do appreciate your help. I posted here because I was trying *not* to invest hours and hours in solving a fairly minor problem. Hours later, of course I've had to conclude that we can't solve it, and I can't use the Work menu because I can't remove items. Another suggestion on a different forum was to remove Work menu items one by one from the Library file the machine keeps for Word, but we could never find the list when we opened the file in TextEdit. I'll go post this in the proper place as well. Maybe there is something my husband is missing here, but as he is a professional program (though he doesn't work with Word much), I suspect that somewhere between Microsoft and the Mac OS something went wrong. Perhaps in a future update it will be fixed. Best, NGD "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Why does your subject line say Word 2003 (windows version) when you are using Word 2004 on a Mac? Such typos can create great confusion. Anyhow, this is a known issue on the Mac--I think one of the Universal Access commands in System Preferences overrides cmd-option-minus. Here's a good explanation: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...rd/browse_frm/ thread/75da70f31d369951/b9a9df06e9453349 For future reference, See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord, MacExcel, and other MS programs for the Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups It's hard to tell when a problem is Mac-specific--in general, if you want to know how to do something, either the general or Mac-specific groups will work. If something is going wrong, try the Mac groups first. I'm guessing that you updated the OS at the same time as you updated Office, and Apple might have turned on some Access features by default in a recent update--my VoiceOver came on randomly and the computer began explaining what I was doing. |
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There may have been a "Delete Item from Work Menu" command on Macs, but on
PCs, Ctrl+Alt+Hyphen (not minus) is assigned to ToolsCustomizeRemoveMenuShortcut. -- 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. "NGD" wrote in message ... Daiya, I do appreciate your response. I posted in the Word 2003 forum because I couldn't *find* the 2004 for Mac forum; one of the links you gave me below worked. Thanks. Anyway, I've returned so that anyone else who comes to the wrong forum as I did will get the discouraging news: I'm afraid these solutions don't seem to work anymore. I found what looked like some good answers in the links you gave, and I tried them all. option-command-8 will give me a minus sign cursor--which disappears when I try to use it on the Work menu. Another link gave me Macros to remove items from the Work menu. I finally asked my husband, who works in Visual Basic and could analyze these but hadn't known enough about Word to write one himself, why they didn't work. The answer? He found that the "Delete Item from Work Menu" command simply doesn't exist anymore on any of the three Macs we have between us. Turning the cursor to a minus sign won't do anything as a result, and a macro can't get you to a command that seems not to exist anymore. I do appreciate your help. I posted here because I was trying *not* to invest hours and hours in solving a fairly minor problem. Hours later, of course I've had to conclude that we can't solve it, and I can't use the Work menu because I can't remove items. Another suggestion on a different forum was to remove Work menu items one by one from the Library file the machine keeps for Word, but we could never find the list when we opened the file in TextEdit. I'll go post this in the proper place as well. Maybe there is something my husband is missing here, but as he is a professional program (though he doesn't work with Word much), I suspect that somewhere between Microsoft and the Mac OS something went wrong. Perhaps in a future update it will be fixed. Best, NGD "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Why does your subject line say Word 2003 (windows version) when you are using Word 2004 on a Mac? Such typos can create great confusion. Anyhow, this is a known issue on the Mac--I think one of the Universal Access commands in System Preferences overrides cmd-option-minus. Here's a good explanation: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...rd/browse_frm/ thread/75da70f31d369951/b9a9df06e9453349 For future reference, See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord, MacExcel, and other MS programs for the Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups It's hard to tell when a problem is Mac-specific--in general, if you want to know how to do something, either the general or Mac-specific groups will work. If something is going wrong, try the Mac groups first. I'm guessing that you updated the OS at the same time as you updated Office, and Apple might have turned on some Access features by default in a recent update--my VoiceOver came on randomly and the computer began explaining what I was doing. |
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No, it's the same command name on the Mac. She posted (different name) on
the MacWord group and I just answered over there. I'm not sure whether cmd-option-hyphen vs. cmd-option-minus is a Mac difference or not, since I don't have a number pad on the laptop. Our help definitely says "minus", that may just be an error, though. I guess it is the hyphen. On 9/19/06 7:26 AM, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There may have been a "Delete Item from Work Menu" command on Macs, but on PCs, Ctrl+Alt+Hyphen (not minus) is assigned to ToolsCustomizeRemoveMenuShortcut. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Hi NGD,
Apparently you didn't try the answer in the link I gave you before posting again, so it's a good thing I explained it verbally over in the MacWord group. It is true that the solutions you list don't work--I don't know who thought they would, they all sound wrong to me (except the macro, not enough information to know whether it is wrong). I think instead of realizing that I linked you to a specific post with the first link, you read that as a suggestion to do a search and got all kinds of random guesses--but apparently, not the right answer, although it's been asked and answered the same way several times. The usual answer: Turn off Zoom in System Preferences | Universal Access--the command to Zoom In is overriding the cmd-option-minus in Word. Daiya On 9/19/06 6:18 AM, "NGD" wrote: Daiya, I do appreciate your response. I posted in the Word 2003 forum because I couldn't *find* the 2004 for Mac forum; one of the links you gave me below worked. Thanks. Anyway, I've returned so that anyone else who comes to the wrong forum as I did will get the discouraging news: I'm afraid these solutions don't seem to work anymore. I found what looked like some good answers in the links you gave, and I tried them all. option-command-8 will give me a minus sign cursor--which disappears when I try to use it on the Work menu. Another link gave me Macros to remove items from the Work menu. I finally asked my husband, who works in Visual Basic and could analyze these but hadn't known enough about Word to write one himself, why they didn't work. The answer? He found that the "Delete Item from Work Menu" command simply doesn't exist anymore on any of the three Macs we have between us. Turning the cursor to a minus sign won't do anything as a result, and a macro can't get you to a command that seems not to exist anymore. I do appreciate your help. I posted here because I was trying *not* to invest hours and hours in solving a fairly minor problem. Hours later, of course I've had to conclude that we can't solve it, and I can't use the Work menu because I can't remove items. Another suggestion on a different forum was to remove Work menu items one by one from the Library file the machine keeps for Word, but we could never find the list when we opened the file in TextEdit. I'll go post this in the proper place as well. Maybe there is something my husband is missing here, but as he is a professional program (though he doesn't work with Word much), I suspect that somewhere between Microsoft and the Mac OS something went wrong. Perhaps in a future update it will be fixed. Best, NGD "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Why does your subject line say Word 2003 (windows version) when you are using Word 2004 on a Mac? Such typos can create great confusion. Anyhow, this is a known issue on the Mac--I think one of the Universal Access commands in System Preferences overrides cmd-option-minus. Here's a good explanation: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...rd/browse_frm/ thread/75da70f31d369951/b9a9df06e9453349 For future reference, See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord, MacExcel, and other MS programs for the Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups It's hard to tell when a problem is Mac-specific--in general, if you want to know how to do something, either the general or Mac-specific groups will work. If something is going wrong, try the Mac groups first. I'm guessing that you updated the OS at the same time as you updated Office, and Apple might have turned on some Access features by default in a recent update--my VoiceOver came on randomly and the computer began explaining what I was doing. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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[MacWord 2004--shortcut to remove from Work menu doesn't work]
On 9/19/06 7:39 AM, "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: The usual answer: Turn off Zoom in System Preferences | Universal Access--the command to Zoom In is overriding the cmd-option-minus in Word. Whoops, I mean the command to Zoom Out is the problem. Must keep the archives accurate! PS. NGD, please do all follow-up on the MacWord group, no need to reply here. |
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Thanks for the thought, but on a Mac, we don't have RemoveMenuShortcut either.
I've found a radical solution: I deleted all my preferences. I now have a virgin Work Menu. I will now spend the day restoring my preferences. . . . Best, NGD "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There may have been a "Delete Item from Work Menu" command on Macs, but on PCs, Ctrl+Alt+Hyphen (not minus) is assigned to ToolsCustomizeRemoveMenuShortcut. -- 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. |
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Did you even *look* at the solution I suggested? which is to turn off Zoom
in System Preferences | Universal Access. Did you check back for an answer to your post in the MacWord group before taking the radical solution? The Mac *does* have the command Suzanne listed (you repeat the wrong name, which suggests you were looking for the wrong thing), and I don't believe you when you say *your* Mac doesn't have it, because you can't really remove hard-coded commands from Word. Everyone else with this problem has found the simple answer above works--I don't know what is happening on your machine, but without specific confirmation, I really doubt that it's anything as exceedingly unusual as you seem to think. I'm really surprised that it takes you a day to restore preferences. You also just wiped the checkboxes in Tools | AutoCorrect, by the way, so be sure to go back there and reset those as well. Custom AutoCorrect entries are fine, it's just the checkboxes in those four dialogs that are stored in prefs. On 9/19/06 8:01 AM, "NGD" wrote: Thanks for the thought, but on a Mac, we don't have RemoveMenuShortcut either. I've found a radical solution: I deleted all my preferences. I now have a virgin Work Menu. I will now spend the day restoring my preferences. . . . Best, NGD "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There may have been a "Delete Item from Work Menu" command on Macs, but on PCs, Ctrl+Alt+Hyphen (not minus) is assigned to ToolsCustomizeRemoveMenuShortcut. -- 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. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Daiya,
If you are upset because you think you wasted your time replying, I assure you: you did not. I took each bit separately, from your first suggestion through your links to hunting through the Mactopia groups, and I tried everything on both my office computer and my home laptop. I forgot to mention that turning off Universal Access didn't help; by the time I'd replied, I'd spent so much time on the other suggestions that I'd forgotten that one. Nor did command-option-eight to turn off Zoom, nor command-option-hyphen instead of command-option-minus. A few things, we also tried on my husband's computer. Oddly, the Macro that we installed from the Mactopia newsgroup suggestions seems to have worked on his computer when he restarted Word; I have no explanation why it doesn't work on my own machines despite repeated restarts. I looked in Mactopia repeatedly. I didn't actually take my radical solution on purpose; I ended up having to delete my preferences because (as I posted to the Mactopia group), I tried removing the Work menu and reinstalling it, and the reinstallation didn't work. I then reinstalled Word because I had lost the entire Work menu, and I had played around with several other commands and was afraid I might have messed something else up. I do know that I wiped my AutoCorrect and AutoFormat with my other preferences, and I've restored those; Check Spelling takes longer because I have a lot of specialized words, so I do that gradually. "Spend the rest of the day" was a joke; I was trying some self-effacing humor because I was sorry I'd posted in the wrong item. I just thought that if I came here looking for answers, someone else might, and so I'd put all the time I'd invested to good use by reporting my results. I do appreciate your help, and I'm sorry I have antagonized you. I'll try to confine myself to Mactopia from now on. (And yes, I see that you've posted there, and I will go there too and look.) Best, NGD "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Did you even *look* at the solution I suggested? which is to turn off Zoom in System Preferences | Universal Access. Did you check back for an answer to your post in the MacWord group before taking the radical solution? The Mac *does* have the command Suzanne listed (you repeat the wrong name, which suggests you were looking for the wrong thing), and I don't believe you when you say *your* Mac doesn't have it, because you can't really remove hard-coded commands from Word. Everyone else with this problem has found the simple answer above works--I don't know what is happening on your machine, but without specific confirmation, I really doubt that it's anything as exceedingly unusual as you seem to think. I'm really surprised that it takes you a day to restore preferences. You also just wiped the checkboxes in Tools | AutoCorrect, by the way, so be sure to go back there and reset those as well. Custom AutoCorrect entries are fine, it's just the checkboxes in those four dialogs that are stored in prefs. |
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Hi NGD,
I'm just exasperated thinking of *you* wasting all that time, and I still think unnecessarily. I think posting back after my first post and saying "what you offered didn't work; what should I try now" would have let you work through your problem with a lot less frustration, blind alleys, and time invested, even if waiting for a response seemed slower than going it alone. By the way you phrase your comments, I'm still not entirely sure the failed solution wasn't due to miscommunication rather than a problem on your machine, but we can sort that on the MacWord group. And yes, I think your posts, and mine too, will be valuable in the archives. Daiya On 9/19/06 8:55 AM, "NGD" wrote: Daiya, If you are upset because you think you wasted your time replying, I assure you: you did not. I took each bit separately, from your first suggestion through your links to hunting through the Mactopia groups, and I tried everything on both my office computer and my home laptop. I forgot to mention that turning off Universal Access didn't help; by the time I'd replied, I'd spent so much time on the other suggestions that I'd forgotten that one. Nor did command-option-eight to turn off Zoom, nor command-option-hyphen instead of command-option-minus. A few things, we also tried on my husband's computer. Oddly, the Macro that we installed from the Mactopia newsgroup suggestions seems to have worked on his computer when he restarted Word; I have no explanation why it doesn't work on my own machines despite repeated restarts. I looked in Mactopia repeatedly. I didn't actually take my radical solution on purpose; I ended up having to delete my preferences because (as I posted to the Mactopia group), I tried removing the Work menu and reinstalling it, and the reinstallation didn't work. I then reinstalled Word because I had lost the entire Work menu, and I had played around with several other commands and was afraid I might have messed something else up. I do know that I wiped my AutoCorrect and AutoFormat with my other preferences, and I've restored those; Check Spelling takes longer because I have a lot of specialized words, so I do that gradually. "Spend the rest of the day" was a joke; I was trying some self-effacing humor because I was sorry I'd posted in the wrong item. I just thought that if I came here looking for answers, someone else might, and so I'd put all the time I'd invested to good use by reporting my results. I do appreciate your help, and I'm sorry I have antagonized you. I'll try to confine myself to Mactopia from now on. (And yes, I see that you've posted there, and I will go there too and look.) Best, NGD "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Did you even *look* at the solution I suggested? which is to turn off Zoom in System Preferences | Universal Access. Did you check back for an answer to your post in the MacWord group before taking the radical solution? The Mac *does* have the command Suzanne listed (you repeat the wrong name, which suggests you were looking for the wrong thing), and I don't believe you when you say *your* Mac doesn't have it, because you can't really remove hard-coded commands from Word. Everyone else with this problem has found the simple answer above works--I don't know what is happening on your machine, but without specific confirmation, I really doubt that it's anything as exceedingly unusual as you seem to think. I'm really surprised that it takes you a day to restore preferences. You also just wiped the checkboxes in Tools | AutoCorrect, by the way, so be sure to go back there and reset those as well. Custom AutoCorrect entries are fine, it's just the checkboxes in those four dialogs that are stored in prefs. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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