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Losing shortcut keys in templates when upgrading to Word 2003
It seems that I have lost shortcut keys that I established for styles in
templates that I created with Word 2000 and now I am using Word 2003. Is this correct, or am I missing something? I have looked at my styles and it does not look like the shortcut keys are there. I haven't found anything on this on microsoft's site. |
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Hi Vandeg
I haven't experienced this problem, and I've had templates with shortcut keys for styles survive journeys from Word 2000 to 2003 and back again. If you have a document based on a template, and bearing in mind that Normal.dot is always lurking around as a global template, then the keyboard shortcuts may have been saved in normal.dot, in the template or the document. So maybe the shortcuts were not, in fact, stored in the templates? Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "vandeg" wrote in message ... It seems that I have lost shortcut keys that I established for styles in templates that I created with Word 2000 and now I am using Word 2003. Is this correct, or am I missing something? I have looked at my styles and it does not look like the shortcut keys are there. I haven't found anything on this on microsoft's site. |
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You need to make sure that you save your shortcuts in the applicable
template/document and not in normal.dot. I have templates with shortcuts that I created in Word 97, 2000, and 2002 that are working fine in Word 2003. I've taken templates drafted in Word 2003 with shortcuts and moved them to a Word 97 environment and they worked fine. The Keyboard organizer from http://www.chriswoodman.co.uk/Shortcut%20Organizer.htm may help you determine where shortcuts are located. See http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc. -- 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://www.mvps.org/word 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. "vandeg" wrote in message ... It seems that I have lost shortcut keys that I established for styles in templates that I created with Word 2000 and now I am using Word 2003. Is this correct, or am I missing something? I have looked at my styles and it does not look like the shortcut keys are there. I haven't found anything on this on microsoft's site. |
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Thanks. After I posted this I looked again and sure enough they still work.
However, the shortcut keys are not listed with the styles. I will play around with it again, and see what I can come up with. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: You need to make sure that you save your shortcuts in the applicable template/document and not in normal.dot. I have templates with shortcuts that I created in Word 97, 2000, and 2002 that are working fine in Word 2003. I've taken templates drafted in Word 2003 with shortcuts and moved them to a Word 97 environment and they worked fine. The Keyboard organizer from http://www.chriswoodman.co.uk/Shortcut%20Organizer.htm may help you determine where shortcuts are located. See http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc. -- 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://www.mvps.org/word 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. "vandeg" wrote in message ... It seems that I have lost shortcut keys that I established for styles in templates that I created with Word 2000 and now I am using Word 2003. Is this correct, or am I missing something? I have looked at my styles and it does not look like the shortcut keys are there. I haven't found anything on this on microsoft's site. |
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Thanks. After I posted this I tried again and the shortcut keys seem to work,
but they don't show up in the styles listing. I will look further. "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi Vandeg I haven't experienced this problem, and I've had templates with shortcut keys for styles survive journeys from Word 2000 to 2003 and back again. If you have a document based on a template, and bearing in mind that Normal.dot is always lurking around as a global template, then the keyboard shortcuts may have been saved in normal.dot, in the template or the document. So maybe the shortcuts were not, in fact, stored in the templates? Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "vandeg" wrote in message ... It seems that I have lost shortcut keys that I established for styles in templates that I created with Word 2000 and now I am using Word 2003. Is this correct, or am I missing something? I have looked at my styles and it does not look like the shortcut keys are there. I haven't found anything on this on microsoft's site. |
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One other thing is you can simply assign abbreviations to styles by putting
that in the name. For instance, in my templates Body Text is named "Body Text, bt" If I type "bt" in the style window, it will apply the style. Ctrl-Shift-S lets me type into that window without using the mouse. -- 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://www.mvps.org/word 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. "vandeg" wrote in message ... Thanks. After I posted this I tried again and the shortcut keys seem to work, but they don't show up in the styles listing. I will look further. "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi Vandeg I haven't experienced this problem, and I've had templates with shortcut keys for styles survive journeys from Word 2000 to 2003 and back again. If you have a document based on a template, and bearing in mind that Normal.dot is always lurking around as a global template, then the keyboard shortcuts may have been saved in normal.dot, in the template or the document. So maybe the shortcuts were not, in fact, stored in the templates? Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "vandeg" wrote in message ... It seems that I have lost shortcut keys that I established for styles in templates that I created with Word 2000 and now I am using Word 2003. Is this correct, or am I missing something? I have looked at my styles and it does not look like the shortcut keys are there. I haven't found anything on this on microsoft's site. |
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