Hi Tom,
After reading your lecture above, and given the presence of "newusers" in
this group's title, I am left wondering why you bothered replying in the
first place. If F1 is locked down so securely, then why not just say "you
can't do that unless you know VBA" and left it at that?
I cheerfully admit that I am not a programmer, but my original question was
a simple one, and if you weren't prepared to provide this "new user" with
meaningful assistance, then why even bother to reply?
Leaving someone with the impression that they're an idiot leaves me
fervently hoping that you are not in HR... :-)
We get all levels of user in this group. From absolute first-time at the
computer keyboard, through first time with Word, all the way to C++ developer
wanting help with code - and every imaginable variation within this spectrum.
It's impossible to evaluate a person's capabilities based on a couple of
short messages :-)
I wasn't implying you're an idiot - but you said yourself that you haven't
the background to understand what I gave you. At that point, I have to make a
judgement call whether I'll potentially be causing more harm by following
through with you to the bitter end (you make the change) with the result that
somewhere down the line your system becomes "unusable".
What you want to do is possible (I tested the code before I posted it here),
but it means doing something the average user isn't supposed to do. And when
you step beyond the "safety boundaries" - whether using code, working on a
construction site, or doing anything else - a basic understanding of what
you're doing and the consequenses and dangers involved is required. Based on
your reaction, I consider it better not to take the chance of wrecking your
installation that could result in the loss of customizations (macros,
keyboard assignments, toolbars) you use in your daily work.
If there weren't any alternatives for solving the problem (executing a macro
with a keyboard shortcut), then I would have continued to work on the problem
with you. But given there are hundreds of possible keyboard combinations, the
risk of causing you damage was too high compared to the gain.
And no, I'm certainly not in HR, nor would I ever care to be. I'm a lousy
nurse / handholder and am quite aware of it :-) My strength is in looking at
problems and seeing possible solutions, with a general disregard of any
emotions or feelings involved.
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org
This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or
reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)