[jon]

1. How do I make trailing dots? Say I write Comments on a form and want to
write trailing dots until the right hand side of the page.

2. Sometimes I have a bit of a problem making an underline that runs from
the left hand side to the right hand side of the page. Has this issue
happened to anyone else?
Is there a shortcut for making this line straight away?

3. How do I create checkboxes (preferably quickly)?

4. How do I create frames of text/pictures? This is because I might want
text to be aligned within a particular frame in the form of a newspaper for
example.

5. How do I review the Style settings? Basically I want to create/update
styles for Heading 1, Heading 2 etc, because on my version only Heading 1
seems to exist, and, after scrolling about a bit 'Heading 2' appeared.


Word 2007

[Jay Freedman]

Jon wrote:
1. How do I make trailing dots? Say I write Comments on a form and
want to write trailing dots until the right hand side of the page.

Set a right-aligned tab stop at the right margin, and give it a dot
'leader'. To do this, open the Tabs dialog (Alt+O, T), type in the distance
from the left margin to the right margin, click the Right option and the dot
leader option, and click OK. [Note: Don't use the Tabs button in the
Paragraph dialog; see
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...672447?hl=en.]
Then press the Tab key to insert a tab character between the text on the
left and on the right.

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...ettingTabs.htm discusses this, but
hasn't been updated for Word 2007.

2. Sometimes I have a bit of a problem making an underline that runs
from the left hand side to the right hand side of the page. Has this
issue happened to anyone else?
Is there a shortcut for making this line straight away?

Turn on the top or bottom border of a paragraph. On the Home tab of the
ribbon, the Borders button is the rightmost in the bottom row of the
Paragraph group. A shortcut is to type three or more hyphens in an empty
paragraph and then hit Enter. This depends on having 'Border lines' checked
in Office button Word Options Proofing AutoCorrect Options
AutoFormat As You Type, but those options are troublemakers best turned off
(http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...utoFormat.htm).

3. How do I create checkboxes (preferably quickly)?

The 'legacy controls' (protected form fields and ActiveX controls) are on
the Developer tab of the ribbon, which you can enable in Office button
Word Options Popular. If you use form field check boxes, you need to
'protect the document for forms', which disables a lot of Word's functions.
ActiveX controls have some other nasty side effects.

If the check boxes will be used only in Word 2007, and not sent to anyone
using an earlier version, try Greg Maxey's add-in at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Custom_CC_Checkboxes.htm.

4. How do I create frames of text/pictures? This is because I might
want text to be aligned within a particular frame in the form of a
newspaper for example.

I'm not sure what you're asking here. If you want to put a frame _around_
text, there's an Insert Frame button among the legacy controls mentioned in
#3 -- select the text and click the button.

5. How do I review the Style settings? Basically I want to
create/update styles for Heading 1, Heading 2 etc, because on my
version only Heading 1 seems to exist, and, after scrolling about a
bit 'Heading 2' appeared.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S or click the tiny arrow button at the right end of
the name bar of the Styles group on the Home ribbon. That opens the Styles
pane. Click the Options link in the bottom right and choose to display All
Styles and list them alphabetically. Then you can right-click any style and
choose Modify.

You can also click the third of the three similar buttons at the bottom --
the tooltip says Manage Styles -- and choose which styles appear in the
gallery and in what order.

Word 2007

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...ettingTabs.htm discusses this,
but hasn't been updated for Word 2007.

Actually, it has.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S ...That opens the Styles pane.

This doesn't work for me because that shortcut is assigned to a DataPrompter
macro, but even if I unassign the macro, the shortcut still doesn't work,
and I can't find any command in the Customize dialog that looks as if it
would open the Styles pane as opposed to the Apply Styles dropdown. What am
I doing wrong?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Jon wrote:
1. How do I make trailing dots? Say I write Comments on a form and
want to write trailing dots until the right hand side of the page.

Set a right-aligned tab stop at the right margin, and give it a dot
'leader'. To do this, open the Tabs dialog (Alt+O, T), type in the
distance from the left margin to the right margin, click the Right option
and the dot leader option, and click OK. [Note: Don't use the Tabs button
in the Paragraph dialog; see
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...672447?hl=en.]
Then press the Tab key to insert a tab character between the text on the
left and on the right.

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...ettingTabs.htm discusses this,
but hasn't been updated for Word 2007.

2. Sometimes I have a bit of a problem making an underline that runs
from the left hand side to the right hand side of the page. Has this
issue happened to anyone else?
Is there a shortcut for making this line straight away?

Turn on the top or bottom border of a paragraph. On the Home tab of the
ribbon, the Borders button is the rightmost in the bottom row of the
Paragraph group. A shortcut is to type three or more hyphens in an empty
paragraph and then hit Enter. This depends on having 'Border lines'
checked in Office button Word Options Proofing AutoCorrect Options
AutoFormat As You Type, but those options are troublemakers best turned
off (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...utoFormat.htm).

3. How do I create checkboxes (preferably quickly)?

The 'legacy controls' (protected form fields and ActiveX controls) are on
the Developer tab of the ribbon, which you can enable in Office button
Word Options Popular. If you use form field check boxes, you need to
'protect the document for forms', which disables a lot of Word's
functions. ActiveX controls have some other nasty side effects.

If the check boxes will be used only in Word 2007, and not sent to anyone
using an earlier version, try Greg Maxey's add-in at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Custom_CC_Checkboxes.htm.

4. How do I create frames of text/pictures? This is because I might
want text to be aligned within a particular frame in the form of a
newspaper for example.

I'm not sure what you're asking here. If you want to put a frame _around_
text, there's an Insert Frame button among the legacy controls mentioned
in #3 -- select the text and click the button.

5. How do I review the Style settings? Basically I want to
create/update styles for Heading 1, Heading 2 etc, because on my
version only Heading 1 seems to exist, and, after scrolling about a
bit 'Heading 2' appeared.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S or click the tiny arrow button at the right end of
the name bar of the Styles group on the Home ribbon. That opens the Styles
pane. Click the Options link in the bottom right and choose to display All
Styles and list them alphabetically. Then you can right-click any style
and choose Modify.

You can also click the third of the three similar buttons at the bottom --
the tooltip says Manage Styles -- and choose which styles appear in the
gallery and in what order.

Word 2007

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so all may benefit.

[grammatim[_2_]]

It was probably the first thing I put on my QAT. In the Customize
window, it's the one whose button is AA with the second A underlined,
and the legend is "Styles..." (the one whose legend is "Styles" gives
you the Styles dropdown, so the Home tab or the Styles pane don't have
to show (using up screen space) in order to quickly grab a new style)

On Apr 13, 11:25*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...s.htmdiscusses this,
but hasn't been updated for Word 2007.

Actually, it has.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S ...That opens the Styles pane.

This doesn't work for me because that shortcut is assigned to a DataPrompter
macro, but even if I unassign the macro, the shortcut still doesn't work,
and I can't find any command in the Customize dialog that looks as if it
would open the Styles pane as opposed to the Apply Styles dropdown. What am
I doing wrong?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message

...



Jon wrote:
1. How do I make trailing dots? *Say I write Comments on a form and
want to write trailing dots until the right hand side of the page.

Set a right-aligned tab stop at the right margin, and give it a dot
'leader'. To do this, open the Tabs dialog (Alt+O, T), type in the
distance from the left margin to the right margin, click the Right option
and the dot leader option, and click OK. [Note: Don't use the Tabs button
in the Paragraph dialog; see
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...ement/ms.....]
Then press the Tab key to insert a tab character between the text on the
left and on the right.

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...s.htmdiscusses this,
but hasn't been updated for Word 2007.

2. Sometimes I have a bit of a problem making an underline that runs
from the left hand side to the right hand side of the page. *Has this
issue happened to anyone else?
Is there a shortcut for making this line straight away?

Turn on the top or bottom border of a paragraph. On the Home tab of the
ribbon, the Borders button is the rightmost in the bottom row of the
Paragraph group. A shortcut is to type three or more hyphens in an empty
paragraph and then hit Enter. This depends on having 'Border lines'
checked in Office button Word Options Proofing AutoCorrect Options
AutoFormat As You Type, but those options are troublemakers best turned
off (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...utoFormat.htm).

3. How do I create checkboxes (preferably quickly)?

The 'legacy controls' (protected form fields and ActiveX controls) are on
the Developer tab of the ribbon, which you can enable in Office button
Word Options Popular. If you use form field check boxes, you need to
'protect the document for forms', which disables a lot of Word's
functions. ActiveX controls have some other nasty side effects.

If the check boxes will be used only in Word 2007, and not sent to anyone
using an earlier version, try Greg Maxey's add-in at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Custom_CC_Checkboxes.htm.

4. How do I create frames of text/pictures? *This is because I might
want text to be aligned within a particular frame in the form of a
newspaper for example.

I'm not sure what you're asking here. If you want to put a frame _around_
text, there's an Insert Frame button among the legacy controls mentioned
in #3 -- select the text and click the button.

5. How do I review the Style settings? *Basically I want to
create/update styles for Heading 1, Heading 2 etc, because on my
version only Heading 1 seems to exist, and, after scrolling about a
bit 'Heading 2' appeared.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S or click the tiny arrow button at the right end of
the name bar of the Styles group on the Home ribbon. That opens the Styles
pane. Click the Options link in the bottom right and choose to display All
Styles and list them alphabetically. Then you can right-click any style
and choose Modify.

You can also click the third of the three similar buttons at the bottom -- *
the tooltip says Manage Styles -- and choose which styles appear in the
gallery and in what order.

Word 2007

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP * * * *FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so all may benefit.-

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Indeed it is. Thanks, Peter. I could have sworn I looked at all the
alternatives, but I guess I didn't try that one.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"grammatim" wrote in message
...
It was probably the first thing I put on my QAT. In the Customize
window, it's the one whose button is AA with the second A underlined,
and the legend is "Styles..." (the one whose legend is "Styles" gives
you the Styles dropdown, so the Home tab or the Styles pane don't have
to show (using up screen space) in order to quickly grab a new style)

On Apr 13, 11:25 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...s.htmdiscusses this,
but hasn't been updated for Word 2007.

Actually, it has.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S ...That opens the Styles pane.

This doesn't work for me because that shortcut is assigned to a
DataPrompter
macro, but even if I unassign the macro, the shortcut still doesn't work,
and I can't find any command in the Customize dialog that looks as if it
would open the Styles pane as opposed to the Apply Styles dropdown. What
am
I doing wrong?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message

...



Jon wrote:
1. How do I make trailing dots? Say I write Comments on a form and
want to write trailing dots until the right hand side of the page.

Set a right-aligned tab stop at the right margin, and give it a dot
'leader'. To do this, open the Tabs dialog (Alt+O, T), type in the
distance from the left margin to the right margin, click the Right
option
and the dot leader option, and click OK. [Note: Don't use the Tabs
button
in the Paragraph dialog; see
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...gement/ms....]
Then press the Tab key to insert a tab character between the text on the
left and on the right.

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...s.htmdiscusses this,
but hasn't been updated for Word 2007.

2. Sometimes I have a bit of a problem making an underline that runs
from the left hand side to the right hand side of the page. Has this
issue happened to anyone else?
Is there a shortcut for making this line straight away?

Turn on the top or bottom border of a paragraph. On the Home tab of the
ribbon, the Borders button is the rightmost in the bottom row of the
Paragraph group. A shortcut is to type three or more hyphens in an empty
paragraph and then hit Enter. This depends on having 'Border lines'
checked in Office button Word Options Proofing AutoCorrect Options

AutoFormat As You Type, but those options are troublemakers best turned
off (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...utoFormat.htm).

3. How do I create checkboxes (preferably quickly)?

The 'legacy controls' (protected form fields and ActiveX controls) are
on
the Developer tab of the ribbon, which you can enable in Office button
Word Options Popular. If you use form field check boxes, you need to
'protect the document for forms', which disables a lot of Word's
functions. ActiveX controls have some other nasty side effects.

If the check boxes will be used only in Word 2007, and not sent to
anyone
using an earlier version, try Greg Maxey's add-in at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Custom_CC_Checkboxes.htm.

4. How do I create frames of text/pictures? This is because I might
want text to be aligned within a particular frame in the form of a
newspaper for example.

I'm not sure what you're asking here. If you want to put a frame
_around_
text, there's an Insert Frame button among the legacy controls mentioned
in #3 -- select the text and click the button.

5. How do I review the Style settings? Basically I want to
create/update styles for Heading 1, Heading 2 etc, because on my
version only Heading 1 seems to exist, and, after scrolling about a
bit 'Heading 2' appeared.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S or click the tiny arrow button at the right end
of
the name bar of the Styles group on the Home ribbon. That opens the
Styles
pane. Click the Options link in the bottom right and choose to display
All
Styles and list them alphabetically. Then you can right-click any style
and choose Modify.

You can also click the third of the three similar buttons at the
bottom --
the tooltip says Manage Styles -- and choose which styles appear in the
gallery and in what order.

Word 2007

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
so all may benefit.-

[grammatim[_2_]]

You remembered my name! Bless you! I wish I'd ever called you Susan so
I could atone now ...

The trouble with QAT buttons is that once they're there, there's no
reason to remember where they came from. I couldn't find any other way
to get to the Style pane until someone mentioned it here ... and don't
get me started on the Font Substitution command! (Extraordinarily
useful for anyone who opens documents from any other source, yet
impossibly buried in about as non-intuitive place as they could find.)

On Apr 13, 12:05*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Indeed it is. Thanks, Peter. I could have sworn I looked at all the
alternatives, but I guess I didn't try that one.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

"grammatim" wrote in message

...
It was probably the first thing I put on my QAT. In the Customize
window, it's the one whose button is AA with the second A underlined,
and the legend is "Styles..." (the one whose legend is "Styles" gives
you the Styles dropdown, so the Home tab or the Styles pane don't have
to show (using up screen space) in order to quickly grab a new style)

On Apr 13, 11:25 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:



http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...mdiscussesthis,
but hasn't been updated for Word 2007.

Actually, it has.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S ...That opens the Styles pane.

This doesn't work for me because that shortcut is assigned to a
DataPrompter
macro, but even if I unassign the macro, the shortcut still doesn't work,
and I can't find any command in the Customize dialog that looks as if it
would open the Styles pane as opposed to the Apply Styles dropdown. What
am
I doing wrong?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message

...

Jon wrote:
1. How do I make trailing dots? Say I write Comments on a form and
want to write trailing dots until the right hand side of the page.

Set a right-aligned tab stop at the right margin, and give it a dot
'leader'. To do this, open the Tabs dialog (Alt+O, T), type in the
distance from the left margin to the right margin, click the Right
option
and the dot leader option, and click OK. [Note: Don't use the Tabs
button
in the Paragraph dialog; see
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...ement/ms.....]
Then press the Tab key to insert a tab character between the text on the
left and on the right.

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...mdiscussesthis,
but hasn't been updated for Word 2007.

2. Sometimes I have a bit of a problem making an underline that runs
from the left hand side to the right hand side of the page. Has this
issue happened to anyone else?
Is there a shortcut for making this line straight away?

Turn on the top or bottom border of a paragraph. On the Home tab of the
ribbon, the Borders button is the rightmost in the bottom row of the
Paragraph group. A shortcut is to type three or more hyphens in an empty
paragraph and then hit Enter. This depends on having 'Border lines'
checked in Office button Word Options Proofing AutoCorrect Options

AutoFormat As You Type, but those options are troublemakers best turned
off (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...utoFormat.htm).

3. How do I create checkboxes (preferably quickly)?

The 'legacy controls' (protected form fields and ActiveX controls) are
on
the Developer tab of the ribbon, which you can enable in Office button
Word Options Popular. If you use form field check boxes, you need to
'protect the document for forms', which disables a lot of Word's
functions. ActiveX controls have some other nasty side effects.

If the check boxes will be used only in Word 2007, and not sent to
anyone
using an earlier version, try Greg Maxey's add-in at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Custom_CC_Checkboxes.htm.

4. How do I create frames of text/pictures? This is because I might
want text to be aligned within a particular frame in the form of a
newspaper for example.

I'm not sure what you're asking here. If you want to put a frame
_around_
text, there's an Insert Frame button among the legacy controls mentioned
in #3 -- select the text and click the button.

5. How do I review the Style settings? Basically I want to
create/update styles for Heading 1, Heading 2 etc, because on my
version only Heading 1 seems to exist, and, after scrolling about a
bit 'Heading 2' appeared.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S or click the tiny arrow button at the right end
of
the name bar of the Styles group on the Home ribbon. That opens the
Styles
pane. Click the Options link in the bottom right and choose to display
All
Styles and list them alphabetically. Then you can right-click any style
and choose Modify.

You can also click the third of the three similar buttons at the
bottom --
the tooltip says Manage Styles -- and choose which styles appear in the
gallery and in what order.

Word 2007

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
so all may benefit.--

[Jay Freedman]

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...ettingTabs.htm discusses
this, but hasn't been updated for Word 2007.

Actually, it has.

Ah, now I see the added material -- I missed it on my first visit today.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S ...That opens the Styles pane.

This doesn't work for me because that shortcut is assigned to a
DataPrompter macro, but even if I unassign the macro, the shortcut
still doesn't work, and I can't find any command in the Customize
dialog that looks as if it would open the Styles pane as opposed to
the Apply Styles dropdown. What am I doing wrong?

The Ctrl+Alt+NumPlus command tells me that Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S is assigned to
the FormattingPane command in the All Commands category. I thought that
removing all nondefault assignments from a key would restore the default,
but maybe not...



"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Jon wrote:
1. How do I make trailing dots? Say I write Comments on a form and
want to write trailing dots until the right hand side of the page.

Set a right-aligned tab stop at the right margin, and give it a dot
'leader'. To do this, open the Tabs dialog (Alt+O, T), type in the
distance from the left margin to the right margin, click the Right
option and the dot leader option, and click OK. [Note: Don't use the
Tabs button in the Paragraph dialog; see
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...672447?hl=en.]
Then press the Tab key to insert a tab character between the text on
the left and on the right.

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...ettingTabs.htm discusses
this, but hasn't been updated for Word 2007.

2. Sometimes I have a bit of a problem making an underline that runs
from the left hand side to the right hand side of the page. Has
this issue happened to anyone else?
Is there a shortcut for making this line straight away?

Turn on the top or bottom border of a paragraph. On the Home tab of
the ribbon, the Borders button is the rightmost in the bottom row of
the Paragraph group. A shortcut is to type three or more hyphens in
an empty paragraph and then hit Enter. This depends on having
'Border lines' checked in Office button Word Options Proofing
AutoCorrect Options AutoFormat As You Type, but those options are
troublemakers best turned off
(http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...utoFormat.htm).
3. How do I create checkboxes (preferably quickly)?

The 'legacy controls' (protected form fields and ActiveX controls)
are on the Developer tab of the ribbon, which you can enable in
Office button Word Options Popular. If you use form field check
boxes, you need to 'protect the document for forms', which disables
a lot of Word's functions. ActiveX controls have some other nasty
side effects. If the check boxes will be used only in Word 2007, and not
sent to
anyone using an earlier version, try Greg Maxey's add-in at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Custom_CC_Checkboxes.htm.

4. How do I create frames of text/pictures? This is because I might
want text to be aligned within a particular frame in the form of a
newspaper for example.

I'm not sure what you're asking here. If you want to put a frame
_around_ text, there's an Insert Frame button among the legacy
controls mentioned in #3 -- select the text and click the button.

5. How do I review the Style settings? Basically I want to
create/update styles for Heading 1, Heading 2 etc, because on my
version only Heading 1 seems to exist, and, after scrolling about a
bit 'Heading 2' appeared.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S or click the tiny arrow button at the right
end of the name bar of the Styles group on the Home ribbon. That
opens the Styles pane. Click the Options link in the bottom right
and choose to display All Styles and list them alphabetically. Then
you can right-click any style and choose Modify.

You can also click the third of the three similar buttons at the
bottom -- the tooltip says Manage Styles -- and choose which styles
appear in the gallery and in what order.

Word 2007

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The fact that it's called FormattingPane explains why I couldn't find it in
the Customize Keyboard dialog. Given that, as Peter has pointed out, you can
get it on the QAT by selecting Styles..., it seems a bit of a stretch to
expect anyone to look for Formatting.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...ettingTabs.htm discusses
this, but hasn't been updated for Word 2007.

Actually, it has.

Ah, now I see the added material -- I missed it on my first visit today.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S ...That opens the Styles pane.

This doesn't work for me because that shortcut is assigned to a
DataPrompter macro, but even if I unassign the macro, the shortcut
still doesn't work, and I can't find any command in the Customize
dialog that looks as if it would open the Styles pane as opposed to
the Apply Styles dropdown. What am I doing wrong?

The Ctrl+Alt+NumPlus command tells me that Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S is assigned to
the FormattingPane command in the All Commands category. I thought that
removing all nondefault assignments from a key would restore the default,
but maybe not...



"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Jon wrote:
1. How do I make trailing dots? Say I write Comments on a form and
want to write trailing dots until the right hand side of the page.

Set a right-aligned tab stop at the right margin, and give it a dot
'leader'. To do this, open the Tabs dialog (Alt+O, T), type in the
distance from the left margin to the right margin, click the Right
option and the dot leader option, and click OK. [Note: Don't use the
Tabs button in the Paragraph dialog; see
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...672447?hl=en.]
Then press the Tab key to insert a tab character between the text on
the left and on the right.

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...ettingTabs.htm discusses
this, but hasn't been updated for Word 2007.

2. Sometimes I have a bit of a problem making an underline that runs
from the left hand side to the right hand side of the page. Has
this issue happened to anyone else?
Is there a shortcut for making this line straight away?

Turn on the top or bottom border of a paragraph. On the Home tab of
the ribbon, the Borders button is the rightmost in the bottom row of
the Paragraph group. A shortcut is to type three or more hyphens in
an empty paragraph and then hit Enter. This depends on having
'Border lines' checked in Office button Word Options Proofing
AutoCorrect Options AutoFormat As You Type, but those options are
troublemakers best turned off
(http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...utoFormat.htm).
3. How do I create checkboxes (preferably quickly)?

The 'legacy controls' (protected form fields and ActiveX controls)
are on the Developer tab of the ribbon, which you can enable in
Office button Word Options Popular. If you use form field check
boxes, you need to 'protect the document for forms', which disables
a lot of Word's functions. ActiveX controls have some other nasty
side effects. If the check boxes will be used only in Word 2007, and not
sent to
anyone using an earlier version, try Greg Maxey's add-in at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Custom_CC_Checkboxes.htm.

4. How do I create frames of text/pictures? This is because I might
want text to be aligned within a particular frame in the form of a
newspaper for example.

I'm not sure what you're asking here. If you want to put a frame
_around_ text, there's an Insert Frame button among the legacy
controls mentioned in #3 -- select the text and click the button.

5. How do I review the Style settings? Basically I want to
create/update styles for Heading 1, Heading 2 etc, because on my
version only Heading 1 seems to exist, and, after scrolling about a
bit 'Heading 2' appeared.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S or click the tiny arrow button at the right
end of the name bar of the Styles group on the Home ribbon. That
opens the Styles pane. Click the Options link in the bottom right
and choose to display All Styles and list them alphabetically. Then
you can right-click any style and choose Modify.

You can also click the third of the three similar buttons at the
bottom -- the tooltip says Manage Styles -- and choose which styles
appear in the gallery and in what order.

Word 2007

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I always remember your name, but since it never appears in your posts, I'm
never sure you aren't meaning to be incognito. g

I agree that things seem to be harder than ever to find in Word 2007,
especially Options settings, which I know by heart in Word 2003.

Also, Jay's post made me realize that where I was unsuccessful in finding
the command was in the Customize Keyboard dialog, where, instead of
referring to Styles, it evidently is called FormattingPane.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"grammatim" wrote in message
...
You remembered my name! Bless you! I wish I'd ever called you Susan so
I could atone now ...

The trouble with QAT buttons is that once they're there, there's no
reason to remember where they came from. I couldn't find any other way
to get to the Style pane until someone mentioned it here ... and don't
get me started on the Font Substitution command! (Extraordinarily
useful for anyone who opens documents from any other source, yet
impossibly buried in about as non-intuitive place as they could find.)

On Apr 13, 12:05 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Indeed it is. Thanks, Peter. I could have sworn I looked at all the
alternatives, but I guess I didn't try that one.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

"grammatim" wrote in message

...
It was probably the first thing I put on my QAT. In the Customize
window, it's the one whose button is AA with the second A underlined,
and the legend is "Styles..." (the one whose legend is "Styles" gives
you the Styles dropdown, so the Home tab or the Styles pane don't have
to show (using up screen space) in order to quickly grab a new style)

On Apr 13, 11:25 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:



http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...mdiscussesthis,
but hasn't been updated for Word 2007.

Actually, it has.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S ...That opens the Styles pane.

This doesn't work for me because that shortcut is assigned to a
DataPrompter
macro, but even if I unassign the macro, the shortcut still doesn't
work,
and I can't find any command in the Customize dialog that looks as if it
would open the Styles pane as opposed to the Apply Styles dropdown. What
am
I doing wrong?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message

...

Jon wrote:
1. How do I make trailing dots? Say I write Comments on a form and
want to write trailing dots until the right hand side of the page.

Set a right-aligned tab stop at the right margin, and give it a dot
'leader'. To do this, open the Tabs dialog (Alt+O, T), type in the
distance from the left margin to the right margin, click the Right
option
and the dot leader option, and click OK. [Note: Don't use the Tabs
button
in the Paragraph dialog; see
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...gement/ms....]
Then press the Tab key to insert a tab character between the text on
the
left and on the right.

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...mdiscussesthis,
but hasn't been updated for Word 2007.

2. Sometimes I have a bit of a problem making an underline that runs
from the left hand side to the right hand side of the page. Has this
issue happened to anyone else?
Is there a shortcut for making this line straight away?

Turn on the top or bottom border of a paragraph. On the Home tab of
the
ribbon, the Borders button is the rightmost in the bottom row of the
Paragraph group. A shortcut is to type three or more hyphens in an
empty
paragraph and then hit Enter. This depends on having 'Border lines'
checked in Office button Word Options Proofing AutoCorrect
Options

AutoFormat As You Type, but those options are troublemakers best
turned
off (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...utoFormat.htm).

3. How do I create checkboxes (preferably quickly)?

The 'legacy controls' (protected form fields and ActiveX controls) are
on
the Developer tab of the ribbon, which you can enable in Office button

Word Options Popular. If you use form field check boxes, you need to
'protect the document for forms', which disables a lot of Word's
functions. ActiveX controls have some other nasty side effects.

If the check boxes will be used only in Word 2007, and not sent to
anyone
using an earlier version, try Greg Maxey's add-in at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Custom_CC_Checkboxes.htm.

4. How do I create frames of text/pictures? This is because I might
want text to be aligned within a particular frame in the form of a
newspaper for example.

I'm not sure what you're asking here. If you want to put a frame
_around_
text, there's an Insert Frame button among the legacy controls
mentioned
in #3 -- select the text and click the button.

5. How do I review the Style settings? Basically I want to
create/update styles for Heading 1, Heading 2 etc, because on my
version only Heading 1 seems to exist, and, after scrolling about a
bit 'Heading 2' appeared.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S or click the tiny arrow button at the right end
of
the name bar of the Styles group on the Home ribbon. That opens the
Styles
pane. Click the Options link in the bottom right and choose to display
All
Styles and list them alphabetically. Then you can right-click any
style
and choose Modify.

You can also click the third of the three similar buttons at the
bottom --
the tooltip says Manage Styles -- and choose which styles appear in
the
gallery and in what order.

Word 2007

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
so all may benefit.--