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Word 2007 Beta - key combinations
I've got Office 2007 Beta installed alongside Office 2003 on my
machine, but on a different drive. In Word 2003, I have quite a number of keyboard shortcuts set up to insert different symbols that I use frequently, all stored in normal.dot. If I try to set up similar shortcuts in Word 2007, where they will be stored in normal.dotm, I cannot. I get the message "Word cannot change the function of the specified key", even when the combination is flagged up as unassigned. Can anyone say if this is because I have the two versions of Word on my machine at the say time, or if there is some other explanation, please? -- John Gough This e-mail address is rarely read |
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Word 2007 Beta - key combinations
Which keys are you trying to use for your shortcuts?
Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net " wrote in message : I've got Office 2007 Beta installed alongside Office 2003 on my machine, but on a different drive. In Word 2003, I have quite a number of keyboard shortcuts set up to insert different symbols that I use frequently, all stored in normal.dot. If I try to set up similar shortcuts in Word 2007, where they will be stored in normal.dotm, I cannot. I get the message "Word cannot change the function of the specified key", even when the combination is flagged up as unassigned. Can anyone say if this is because I have the two versions of Word on my machine at the say time, or if there is some other explanation, please? -- John Gough This e-mail address is rarely read |
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:19:38 +0000, "Patrick Schmid"
wrote: Which keys are you trying to use for your shortcuts? Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net " wrote in message : I've got Office 2007 Beta installed alongside Office 2003 on my machine, but on a different drive. In Word 2003, I have quite a number of keyboard shortcuts set up to insert different symbols that I use frequently, all stored in normal.dot. If I try to set up similar shortcuts in Word 2007, where they will be stored in normal.dotm, I cannot. I get the message "Word cannot change the function of the specified key", even when the combination is flagged up as unassigned. Can anyone say if this is because I have the two versions of Word on my machine at the say time, or if there is some other explanation, please? -- John Gough This e-mail address is rarely read e.g. "Control + Shift + 5" for the "pro mille" sign "Control + Shift + 2" for "superscript 2" "Control + Alt + Num -" for "EM-dash" All of them shewn as not in use for other things -- and all of them combinations I've been able to set on Word 2003 without problem. -- John Gough This e-mail address is rarely read |
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Office 2007 supports all keyboard shortcuts from 2003 (that includes all
the ones you have for menus and menu items) plus a whole host of new ones to make the ribbon and QAT keyboard accessible. Therefore you are bound to have less keyboard shortcuts available to you for customizing. e.g. "Control + Shift + 5" for the "pro mille" sign "Control + Shift + 2" for "superscript 2" Control+Shift+number is used to access the items on the QAT. So control-shift-1 triggers save, control-shift-2 undo, control-shift-3 redo, and control-shift-4 print immediately for a default Word installation. All numbers with control-sift are reserved as they will be used when you add additional items to the QAT. "Control + Alt + Num -" for "EM-dash" This makes an EM-dash by default. Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net " wrote in message news On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:19:38 +0000, "Patrick Schmid" wrote: Which keys are you trying to use for your shortcuts? Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net " wrote in message : I've got Office 2007 Beta installed alongside Office 2003 on my machine, but on a different drive. In Word 2003, I have quite a number of keyboard shortcuts set up to insert different symbols that I use frequently, all stored in normal.dot. If I try to set up similar shortcuts in Word 2007, where they will be stored in normal.dotm, I cannot. I get the message "Word cannot change the function of the specified key", even when the combination is flagged up as unassigned. Can anyone say if this is because I have the two versions of Word on my machine at the say time, or if there is some other explanation, please? -- John Gough This e-mail address is rarely read e.g. "Control + Shift + 5" for the "pro mille" sign "Control + Shift + 2" for "superscript 2" "Control + Alt + Num -" for "EM-dash" All of them shewn as not in use for other things -- and all of them combinations I've been able to set on Word 2003 without problem. -- John Gough This e-mail address is rarely read |
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Hi John,
Normally you shouldn't have a problem assigning those keyboard shortcuts in Word 2007. I'm not seeing the same behavior as Patrick is on Ctrl+Shift+numeral combinations being reserved for the Quick Access Toolbar, but it may depend on what Keyboard layout and Keyboard language you have set in Windows. If you close Word, rename Normal.dotm, then open your older Normal.dot and save it as Normal.dotm do your previous keyboard shortcuts work? Are you logged in as administrator? If not, there could be a permissions problem with changing the file/registry. ========= "John Gough" wrote in message news On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:19:38 +0000, "Patrick Schmid" wrote: e.g. "Control + Shift + 5" for the "pro mille" sign "Control + Shift + 2" for "superscript 2" "Control + Alt + Num -" for "EM-dash" All of them shewn as not in use for other things -- and all of them combinations I've been able to set on Word 2003 without problem. -- John Gough -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Hi Bob,
Normally you shouldn't have a problem assigning those keyboard shortcuts in Word 2007. I'm not seeing the same behavior as Patrick is on Ctrl+Shift+numeral combinations being reserved for the Quick Access Toolbar, but it may depend on what Keyboard layout and Keyboard language you have set in Windows. That's rather interesting. CTRL-shift only works for me in Word. It works no matter whether I have Office in German or English. Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net If you close Word, rename Normal.dotm, then open your older Normal.dot and save it as Normal.dotm do your previous keyboard shortcuts work? Are you logged in as administrator? If not, there could be a permissions problem with changing the file/registry. ========= "John Gough" wrote in message news On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:19:38 +0000, "Patrick Schmid" wrote: e.g. "Control + Shift + 5" for the "pro mille" sign "Control + Shift + 2" for "superscript 2" "Control + Alt + Num -" for "EM-dash" All of them shewn as not in use for other things -- and all of them combinations I've been able to set on Word 2003 without problem. -- John Gough -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Hi Patrick,
If you try to assign a keyboard customization of Ctrl+Shift+1 (the keypad and the number row on the regular keys give different results) are you getting the error message or are you able to assign the keyboard shortcuts? An add-in in there perhaps? =========== "Patrick Schmid" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, Normally you shouldn't have a problem assigning those keyboard shortcuts in Word 2007. I'm not seeing the same behavior as Patrick is on Ctrl+Shift+numeral combinations being reserved for the Quick Access Toolbar, but it may depend on what Keyboard layout and Keyboard language you have set in Windows. That's rather interesting. CTRL-shift only works for me in Word. It works no matter whether I have Office in German or English. Patrick Schmid -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Hi Bob,
Strangely no error message. The keys are listed as unassigned. I tried it just in a VM (clean XP with clean B2) and those keys work there as well. Patrick "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message : Hi Patrick, If you try to assign a keyboard customization of Ctrl+Shift+1 (the keypad and the number row on the regular keys give different results) are you getting the error message or are you able to assign the keyboard shortcuts? An add-in in there perhaps? =========== "Patrick Schmid" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, Normally you shouldn't have a problem assigning those keyboard shortcuts in Word 2007. I'm not seeing the same behavior as Patrick is on Ctrl+Shift+numeral combinations being reserved for the Quick Access Toolbar, but it may depend on what Keyboard layout and Keyboard language you have set in Windows. That's rather interesting. CTRL-shift only works for me in Word. It works no matter whether I have Office in German or English. Patrick Schmid -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Word 2007 Beta - key combinations
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:43:46 -0700, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)"
75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote: Bob -- I tried what you suggested and still got the same result, and tried one or two other combinations of renaming/recreating too. Then I tried deleting normal.dotm to force a re-create and copying my normal.dot back from another machine to replace the normal.dot on this one. I then opened Word 2007 without a normal.dotm ... and lo and behold, it seems to have created its new one from the normal.dot and the key combinations I wrote of now work. I haven't tried assigning any new key combinations yet ... John Hi John, Normally you shouldn't have a problem assigning those keyboard shortcuts in Word 2007. I'm not seeing the same behavior as Patrick is on Ctrl+Shift+numeral combinations being reserved for the Quick Access Toolbar, but it may depend on what Keyboard layout and Keyboard language you have set in Windows. If you close Word, rename Normal.dotm, then open your older Normal.dot and save it as Normal.dotm do your previous keyboard shortcuts work? Are you logged in as administrator? If not, there could be a permissions problem with changing the file/registry. ========= "John Gough" wrote in message news On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:19:38 +0000, "Patrick Schmid" wrote: e.g. "Control + Shift + 5" for the "pro mille" sign "Control + Shift + 2" for "superscript 2" "Control + Alt + Num -" for "EM-dash" All of them shewn as not in use for other things -- and all of them combinations I've been able to set on Word 2003 without problem. -- John Gough -- John Gough This e-mail address is rarely read |
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Hi John,
Thank you for the feedback that you found a method that works. Be sure to use the 2007 feedback tool from the link below to describe your scenario. These go directly to the MS Office 2007 product team and it sounds like Word may be getting confused if it finds both a Normal.dot and a Normal.dotm, or it could be from a stray temp file it hasn't cleaned up. (Use start=search and look for files with the naming of ~$*.* ======= "John Gough" wrote in message ... On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:43:46 -0700, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote: Bob -- I tried what you suggested and still got the same result, and tried one or two other combinations of renaming/recreating too. Then I tried deleting normal.dotm to force a re-create and copying my normal.dot back from another machine to replace the normal.dot on this one. I then opened Word 2007 without a normal.dotm ... and lo and behold, it seems to have created its new one from the normal.dot and the key combinations I wrote of now work. I haven't tried assigning any new key combinations yet ... John -- I hope this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office system products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends LINKS for the 2007 Office System 1. Read about it, try it, or watch the movie the 2007 Microsoft Office system iinfo is at http://microsoft.com/office/preview 2. Already have 2007 Office System Beta 2? Send Microsoft your feedback (with pictures) http://sas.office.microsoft.com/ 3. Use the 2007 OfficeOnline website without Office2007 a. Install the ActiveX access control http://office.microsoft.com/search/r...XT101650581033 b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net |
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