No, Alt+O, S will give you the Styles and Formatting task pane. But
Ctrl+Shift+S, as Charles says, will still put you in the Styles dropdown.

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"Jezebel" wrote in message
...
You can use ALT-O,S and the up and down arrows. And you can assign
keyboard
shortcuts to specific styles, as you always could.Ctrl-Alt-1/2/3... for
the
heading styles, Ctrl-Shift-N for normal, etc. (Been using these for so
long
I can't remember whether they are built-in or my own customizations.)


"Tom" wrote in message
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Hello,
Since OfficeXP, the styles in Word seem to want to be selected using the
mouse.

In Word2000, for example, when changing the styles, I could simply press
ALT
+ O, S (to activate the Styles from the Format menu), and then the first
letter of the style I wanted to apply - very efficient - hands don't
leave
keyboard.

Now, in OfficeXP and Office 2003, this efficiency is gone - you must
leave
the keyboard and use the mouse to select styles. Is there any way to go
BACK
to the more efficient method?

Thanks,
Tom McCray