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Recording a macro in Word 2003
I've recorded a macro, and knowing that you can't use the mouse, I did all
the actions with keyboard commands like Alt- and Ctrl- . Fine, but when I got to a certain dialogue I was stumped, temporarily. It was the Format dialogue. When you are finished making your choices, you are supposed to click OK. But how do you do that, without a mouse? Is there a keyboard shortcut? What I actually did was to press Tab 13 times until I landed on the OK button, and then pressed Enter. But is there a better way? |
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Recording a macro in Word 2003
It is correct that you cannot use the mouse to select or manipulate the text
while you record a macro. However, you can use the mouse to select from menus, click in toolbars and make selections in dialog boxes. So you can also click an OK button. If the OK button is the default button (the border of the default button differs from other buttons), pressing the Return key will correspond to clicking the OK button. -- Regards Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word) DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Peter Rooney" wrote: I've recorded a macro, and knowing that you can't use the mouse, I did all the actions with keyboard commands like Alt- and Ctrl- . Fine, but when I got to a certain dialogue I was stumped, temporarily. It was the Format dialogue. When you are finished making your choices, you are supposed to click OK. But how do you do that, without a mouse? Is there a keyboard shortcut? What I actually did was to press Tab 13 times until I landed on the OK button, and then pressed Enter. But is there a better way? |
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Recording a macro in Word 2003
You can use TAB to move the selection around the dialog: these are not
recorded by the macro, but the action of pressing Enter when the OK button is active will be recorded. You can use the mouse to select the OK button too, but you must use the enter key to execute the OK button. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Peter Rooney" wrote in message m... I've recorded a macro, and knowing that you can't use the mouse, I did all the actions with keyboard commands like Alt- and Ctrl- . Fine, but when I got to a certain dialogue I was stumped, temporarily. It was the Format dialogue. When you are finished making your choices, you are supposed to click OK. But how do you do that, without a mouse? Is there a keyboard shortcut? What I actually did was to press Tab 13 times until I landed on the OK button, and then pressed Enter. But is there a better way? |
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Recording a macro in Word 2003
I get the same macro result regardless of whether I click the OK button using
the mouse or execute OK using the Enter (Return) key. -- Regards Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word) DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Terry Farrell" wrote: You can use TAB to move the selection around the dialog: these are not recorded by the macro, but the action of pressing Enter when the OK button is active will be recorded. You can use the mouse to select the OK button too, but you must use the enter key to execute the OK button. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Peter Rooney" wrote in message m... I've recorded a macro, and knowing that you can't use the mouse, I did all the actions with keyboard commands like Alt- and Ctrl- . Fine, but when I got to a certain dialogue I was stumped, temporarily. It was the Format dialogue. When you are finished making your choices, you are supposed to click OK. But how do you do that, without a mouse? Is there a keyboard shortcut? What I actually did was to press Tab 13 times until I landed on the OK button, and then pressed Enter. But is there a better way? |
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