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Want to display the Thesaurus in dialog box not task pane in Word
I have a user who uses a screen reading program and is having problems with
the way the Thesaurus shows up in the task pane. The keystrokes are more complicated to use the task pane than it is to use a dialog box. Is there a way to have the Thesaurus open in a dialog box like it did in Word 2000? |
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Hi Kaytee
Yes, it is possible to get the Thesaurus to display in the old dialog box rather than in the Task Pane. To display the old dialog box, put the following tiny macro into your user's normal.dot. For help in installing the macro, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm. Sub ToolsThesaurusRR() Dialogs(wdDialogToolsThesaurus).Show End Sub This macro will intercept the command to display the task pane. If that macro is in place, then Shift-F7 or Tools Language Thesaurus will invoke the old dialog box rather than the new task pane. However, the new Task Pane can use Thesaurus data that it gets from on-line sources, and the old dialog box doesn't use the on-line data. So your user may miss out on data from the new on-line thesaurus. To see the on-line information, you can still use Tools Research. So this should give your user the best of both worlds. Hope this helps. Write back if you need any further information. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Kaytee" wrote in message news I have a user who uses a screen reading program and is having problems with the way the Thesaurus shows up in the task pane. The keystrokes are more complicated to use the task pane than it is to use a dialog box. Is there a way to have the Thesaurus open in a dialog box like it did in Word 2000? |
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Thank you Shauna
This works great. At the risk of appearing greedy, is there another Macro that will close the task panel when the dialog box is closed? Kaytee "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi Kaytee Yes, it is possible to get the Thesaurus to display in the old dialog box rather than in the Task Pane. To display the old dialog box, put the following tiny macro into your user's normal.dot. For help in installing the macro, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm. Sub ToolsThesaurusRR() Dialogs(wdDialogToolsThesaurus).Show End Sub This macro will intercept the command to display the task pane. If that macro is in place, then Shift-F7 or Tools Language Thesaurus will invoke the old dialog box rather than the new task pane. However, the new Task Pane can use Thesaurus data that it gets from on-line sources, and the old dialog box doesn't use the on-line data. So your user may miss out on data from the new on-line thesaurus. To see the on-line information, you can still use Tools Research. So this should give your user the best of both worlds. Hope this helps. Write back if you need any further information. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Kaytee" wrote in message news I have a user who uses a screen reading program and is having problems with the way the Thesaurus shows up in the task pane. The keystrokes are more complicated to use the task pane than it is to use a dialog box. Is there a way to have the Thesaurus open in a dialog box like it did in Word 2000? |
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Hi Kaytee
You can close the dialog box by pressing Escape. You can close the task pane by doing ctrl-F1 or View Task Pane. Does that solve the problem? Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Kaytee" wrote in message news Thank you Shauna This works great. At the risk of appearing greedy, is there another Macro that will close the task panel when the dialog box is closed? Kaytee "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi Kaytee Yes, it is possible to get the Thesaurus to display in the old dialog box rather than in the Task Pane. To display the old dialog box, put the following tiny macro into your user's normal.dot. For help in installing the macro, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm. Sub ToolsThesaurusRR() Dialogs(wdDialogToolsThesaurus).Show End Sub This macro will intercept the command to display the task pane. If that macro is in place, then Shift-F7 or Tools Language Thesaurus will invoke the old dialog box rather than the new task pane. However, the new Task Pane can use Thesaurus data that it gets from on-line sources, and the old dialog box doesn't use the on-line data. So your user may miss out on data from the new on-line thesaurus. To see the on-line information, you can still use Tools Research. So this should give your user the best of both worlds. Hope this helps. Write back if you need any further information. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Kaytee" wrote in message news I have a user who uses a screen reading program and is having problems with the way the Thesaurus shows up in the task pane. The keystrokes are more complicated to use the task pane than it is to use a dialog box. Is there a way to have the Thesaurus open in a dialog box like it did in Word 2000? |
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Thank you Shauna. I should have noted the user is sight impaired. Now that
I have the keystroke this will work great for him. Kaytee "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi Kaytee You can close the dialog box by pressing Escape. You can close the task pane by doing ctrl-F1 or View Task Pane. Does that solve the problem? Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Kaytee" wrote in message news Thank you Shauna This works great. At the risk of appearing greedy, is there another Macro that will close the task panel when the dialog box is closed? Kaytee "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi Kaytee Yes, it is possible to get the Thesaurus to display in the old dialog box rather than in the Task Pane. To display the old dialog box, put the following tiny macro into your user's normal.dot. For help in installing the macro, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm. Sub ToolsThesaurusRR() Dialogs(wdDialogToolsThesaurus).Show End Sub This macro will intercept the command to display the task pane. If that macro is in place, then Shift-F7 or Tools Language Thesaurus will invoke the old dialog box rather than the new task pane. However, the new Task Pane can use Thesaurus data that it gets from on-line sources, and the old dialog box doesn't use the on-line data. So your user may miss out on data from the new on-line thesaurus. To see the on-line information, you can still use Tools Research. So this should give your user the best of both worlds. Hope this helps. Write back if you need any further information. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Kaytee" wrote in message news I have a user who uses a screen reading program and is having problems with the way the Thesaurus shows up in the task pane. The keystrokes are more complicated to use the task pane than it is to use a dialog box. Is there a way to have the Thesaurus open in a dialog box like it did in Word 2000? |
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Hi Kaytee
Great. I'm glad it will help him out. Shauna Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Kaytee" wrote in message ... Thank you Shauna. I should have noted the user is sight impaired. Now that I have the keystroke this will work great for him. Kaytee "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi Kaytee You can close the dialog box by pressing Escape. You can close the task pane by doing ctrl-F1 or View Task Pane. Does that solve the problem? Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Kaytee" wrote in message news Thank you Shauna This works great. At the risk of appearing greedy, is there another Macro that will close the task panel when the dialog box is closed? Kaytee "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi Kaytee Yes, it is possible to get the Thesaurus to display in the old dialog box rather than in the Task Pane. To display the old dialog box, put the following tiny macro into your user's normal.dot. For help in installing the macro, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm. Sub ToolsThesaurusRR() Dialogs(wdDialogToolsThesaurus).Show End Sub This macro will intercept the command to display the task pane. If that macro is in place, then Shift-F7 or Tools Language Thesaurus will invoke the old dialog box rather than the new task pane. However, the new Task Pane can use Thesaurus data that it gets from on-line sources, and the old dialog box doesn't use the on-line data. So your user may miss out on data from the new on-line thesaurus. To see the on-line information, you can still use Tools Research. So this should give your user the best of both worlds. Hope this helps. Write back if you need any further information. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Kaytee" wrote in message news I have a user who uses a screen reading program and is having problems with the way the Thesaurus shows up in the task pane. The keystrokes are more complicated to use the task pane than it is to use a dialog box. Is there a way to have the Thesaurus open in a dialog box like it did in Word 2000? |
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