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Do I really have to use keyboard Shortcuts to do things that used to be on the Menu?
I have run into issues using Word 2007 that need to be on the Wish list for
a new Word. 1) There a many things I cannot do any more using menus (the mouse). For example, Insert field. For example I am expected to learn Alt Shift O to insert a TC entry. Please can we have the Insert Field menu back - more to the point, I should NEVER HAVE TO LEARN KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS. PLEASE!!!! It took me 45 minutes to discover there was no obvious way of doing it with a mouse! 2) I can no longer toggle formatting marks on and off on the fly: this is a vital method of figuring out what idiotic thing the other guy did and a quick way of looking at the likely final layout when, for example, inserting TC entries (You notice a theme here?). Having to wander off to turn Word Options on and off is irritating, and likely to leave my default setting incorrect. This Needs to be somewhere in the View Ribbon. Thank you |
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Do I really have to use keyboard Shortcuts to do things that used to be on the Menu?
I think you're missing some things. The Show/Hide ¶ button is on the Home
tab (Paragraph group). Insert Field is still available through Insert | Text | Quick Parts | Field. You can add either or both to the QAT via the Customize dialog. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Alan Gillott" wrote in message ... I have run into issues using Word 2007 that need to be on the Wish list for a new Word. 1) There a many things I cannot do any more using menus (the mouse). For example, Insert field. For example I am expected to learn Alt Shift O to insert a TC entry. Please can we have the Insert Field menu back - more to the point, I should NEVER HAVE TO LEARN KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS. PLEASE!!!! It took me 45 minutes to discover there was no obvious way of doing it with a mouse! 2) I can no longer toggle formatting marks on and off on the fly: this is a vital method of figuring out what idiotic thing the other guy did and a quick way of looking at the likely final layout when, for example, inserting TC entries (You notice a theme here?). Having to wander off to turn Word Options on and off is irritating, and likely to leave my default setting incorrect. This Needs to be somewhere in the View Ribbon. Thank you |
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Do I really have to use keyboard Shortcuts to do things that used to be on the Menu?
Thanks Suzanne: as soon as I sent that I found the Show hide button.
Typical. I must admit that never in a month of Sundays would I have dreampt of looking in something called quickparts!!! Can I invoke the nice little Alt shift O dialog via the mouse? I'll see if I can do it under Insert field: I must admit that the Word Help doesn't give you anything useful out of search, or at least when I do search: my search keyword thinkerupper is decidedly myopic and I spend hours thinking up keywords for computer help systems, never the one actually needed. LOL. A "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I think you're missing some things. The Show/Hide ¶ button is on the Home tab (Paragraph group). Insert Field is still available through Insert | Text | Quick Parts | Field. You can add either or both to the QAT via the Customize dialog. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Alan Gillott" wrote in message ... I have run into issues using Word 2007 that need to be on the Wish list for a new Word. 1) There a many things I cannot do any more using menus (the mouse). For example, Insert field. For example I am expected to learn Alt Shift O to insert a TC entry. Please can we have the Insert Field menu back - more to the point, I should NEVER HAVE TO LEARN KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS. PLEASE!!!! It took me 45 minutes to discover there was no obvious way of doing it with a mouse! 2) I can no longer toggle formatting marks on and off on the fly: this is a vital method of figuring out what idiotic thing the other guy did and a quick way of looking at the likely final layout when, for example, inserting TC entries (You notice a theme here?). Having to wander off to turn Word Options on and off is irritating, and likely to leave my default setting incorrect. This Needs to be somewhere in the View Ribbon. Thank you |
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Do I really have to use keyboard Shortcuts to do things that used to be on the Menu?
In addition to Suzanne's Comments, you can find Table of Contents on the
References tab. "Alan Gillott" wrote in message ... I have run into issues using Word 2007 that need to be on the Wish list for a new Word. 1) There a many things I cannot do any more using menus (the mouse). For example, Insert field. For example I am expected to learn Alt Shift O to insert a TC entry. Please can we have the Insert Field menu back - more to the point, I should NEVER HAVE TO LEARN KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS. PLEASE!!!! It took me 45 minutes to discover there was no obvious way of doing it with a mouse! 2) I can no longer toggle formatting marks on and off on the fly: this is a vital method of figuring out what idiotic thing the other guy did and a quick way of looking at the likely final layout when, for example, inserting TC entries (You notice a theme here?). Having to wander off to turn Word Options on and off is irritating, and likely to leave my default setting incorrect. This Needs to be somewhere in the View Ribbon. Thank you |
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Do I really have to use keyboard Shortcuts to do things that used to be on the Menu?
Alt+Shift+O is assigned to MarkTableoOfContentsEntry, so I looked for that
in Customize. I didn't find it exactly but did find two likely candidates under All Commands: Mark Entry... and Mark Entry. The first opens the Mark Index Entry dialog; the second is TOC-related, but, given the lack of ellipsis, I would have expected it to just insert a TC field based on the selected text rather than open the dialog. I tested it, however, and it does do what you want. Unfortunately, it doesn't have a button icon, so you get one more green ball. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Alan Gillott" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne: as soon as I sent that I found the Show hide button. Typical. I must admit that never in a month of Sundays would I have dreampt of looking in something called quickparts!!! Can I invoke the nice little Alt shift O dialog via the mouse? I'll see if I can do it under Insert field: I must admit that the Word Help doesn't give you anything useful out of search, or at least when I do search: my search keyword thinkerupper is decidedly myopic and I spend hours thinking up keywords for computer help systems, never the one actually needed. LOL. A "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I think you're missing some things. The Show/Hide ¶ button is on the Home tab (Paragraph group). Insert Field is still available through Insert | Text | Quick Parts | Field. You can add either or both to the QAT via the Customize dialog. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Alan Gillott" wrote in message ... I have run into issues using Word 2007 that need to be on the Wish list for a new Word. 1) There a many things I cannot do any more using menus (the mouse). For example, Insert field. For example I am expected to learn Alt Shift O to insert a TC entry. Please can we have the Insert Field menu back - more to the point, I should NEVER HAVE TO LEARN KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS. PLEASE!!!! It took me 45 minutes to discover there was no obvious way of doing it with a mouse! 2) I can no longer toggle formatting marks on and off on the fly: this is a vital method of figuring out what idiotic thing the other guy did and a quick way of looking at the likely final layout when, for example, inserting TC entries (You notice a theme here?). Having to wander off to turn Word Options on and off is irritating, and likely to leave my default setting incorrect. This Needs to be somewhere in the View Ribbon. Thank you |
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