Hi Peter,
As long as your keyboard shortcuts aren't ones 'reserved' for Office wide you should be able to transfer the keyboard shortcuts
stored in your current Normal.dot (make a few spare copies of your templates in case you need to 'put one back' at some point g.
Most of the prior version 'regular' keyboard shortcuts also continue to work.
The ability to use custom icons on the Ribbon or the QAT as part of the end user tools is gone, but if you have created custom
toolbars (rather than customizing built in toolbars) from Word 2003, those will show the same graphics you created when used through
the add-ins tab or through a dropdown on the QAT. So as to prepare the files and templates you may want to use for that part of the
transition the information here may be useful:
http://gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm
Just curious - as you can continue to use Word 2003 in Vista, is it specific Vista or Word 2007 changes in regards to Unicode (that
you mentioned) that are needed for your efforts?
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"grammatim" wrote in message ...
And an amazon associated dealer offers it -- and Word Inside Out --
for 65% and 60% off respectively! (And they don't offer Free Shipping,
so they'll probably be here by Wednesday.)
Lest this turn into a mere chat thread, I do have a worry: Will I be
able to transfer my dozens of custom keyboard shortcuts (for accented
letters) from Word 2003 to Word 2007? Everything else about the
template is presumably so different that none of the other
customizations will make sense.
(My old 250 Gb hard drive will become a second internal drive in the
new computer.)
But from looking over the introductory chapter, it doesn't seem that
the 2007 GUI is all that different from the 2003 GUI: "Menus" have
become "Tabs," and selecting a command involves horizontal rather than
vertical mousing. It would be nice to be able to remove the buttons
from the tabs that I'll never use (such as Grammar Check and color
effects); but unless the range of commands available to be put onto
the QAT is severely limited, I can probably get everything I regularly
need in the one row.
If some commands again (as in 2003) don't come with preset button
graphics, it would be nice to be able to copy my homemade ones over,
so that I don't have to try to duplicate them.
And the bibliography device will be very useful.
***
Just this evening one of the prolific MVPs in the thread "Can I write
a 400-page book?" suggested that its OP be warned against trying to
use Master Document.
Not my problem -- the publisher requires InDesign (I'm responsible for
my [what used to be called] camera-ready copy, because of the 100-odd
exotic fonts involved), which strongly recommends against initial
keyboarding within it but wants imported Word files, and InDesign
apparently can handle composite documents successfully.
--
Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*