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Symbol Shortcut
I have been working with Word quite a lot and have discovered that I somehow
lost the insert symbol shortcut from the Insert drop down menu. Does anyone know how to get it back to make my projects a little easier to complete. I would not worry about it very much, except there are several symbols i need to work with to complete school projects. Thanks in advance Shannon |
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On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:23:03 -0800, "Shannon"
wrote: I have been working with Word quite a lot and have discovered that I somehow lost the insert symbol shortcut from the Insert drop down menu. Does anyone know how to get it back to make my projects a little easier to complete. I would not worry about it very much, except there are several symbols i need to work with to complete school projects. Thanks in advance Shannon See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...oreMenuCmd.htm -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Jay has told you how to get it back. I'll tell you how you lost it so it
doesn't happen again. 1. You wanted to insert an em dash, for which the keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Alt+Num- (that is, the minus sign on the numeric keypad). 2. You pressed Ctrl+Alt+Hyphen instead. 3. You thought that nothing had happened. What you didn't realize was that you had activated what some call the "destructive cursor" or "Terminator hyphen" (the actual name of the command is ToolsCustomizeRemoveMenuShortcut). You might have noticed that the mouse pointer had changed to a giant minus sign. The function of this pointer is to remove menu shortcuts; it's handy for removing files from the Work menu or deleted documents from the MRU list on the File menu. 4. You guessed that you had misremembered the keyboard shortcut for an em dash and decided to use Insert | Symbol instead. As soon as you clicked on Symbol, poof! it was gone! If you ever press this key combination by mistake again, remember that you can dismiss it with ESC. -- 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. "Shannon" wrote in message ... I have been working with Word quite a lot and have discovered that I somehow lost the insert symbol shortcut from the Insert drop down menu. Does anyone know how to get it back to make my projects a little easier to complete. I would not worry about it very much, except there are several symbols i need to work with to complete school projects. Thanks in advance Shannon |
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