Black cross instead of the normal cursor

[Marcus]

When working on a Word document, I pressed by accident a key combination I
cannot remember anymore. Suddenly, the normal cursor changed into a small
black cross. Afterwards I tried to do it again, by I could not find the
correct key combination. Does anybody know what I did and what the function
of that black cross is?



Thanks a lot for your help.

Marcus

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Why does it matter? If it happens again, press the Escape key to reset
the cursor.

 

[Marcus]

Well, that's exactly what I did. You are right, it does not matter, if you
mean being any trouble or problem for me. But I just want to understand what
happened and to be able to do it again. And to use this function I did not
know before )

Marcus

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Possibly it is Alt+Ctrl++, which Word's Help topic "Keyboard shortcuts"
defines as follows:

ALT+CTRL++ (plus key on numeric keypad)
Customize the shortcut key for a menu command. When you type this shortcut
key and then select a menu command, the Customize Keyboard dialog box opens
so you can add, change, or remove the shortcut key.

What you get with that is not really a plus sign, though, but a character
sometimes described as a cloverleaf (character 122 in the Wingdings font). I
thought there was something that produced a plus sign (as Alt+Ctrl+Hyphen
produces a "minus"), but I'm not finding it at the moment.

 

[Marcus]

Thanks!
Your answer brought me on the right track: it is the key combination
"ALT+Ctrl+=" (the third key is the "=/+" key on the normal keyboard)!
And I ment the mouse pinter, of course, but if you wrote about the
cloverleaf after pressing ALT+CTRL++, you must have understood me correctly.
Unortunately, I have not found out, yet, what the keyboard shortcut
"ALT+Ctrl+=" is for...

Marcus

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, I did try that one because that was what I first thought of, but
unfortunately I have that assigned to something else (it inserts a dagger),
so I was unable to find it in the normal way. According to Word's Help,
however:

ALT+CTRL+= (equal sign)
Add a toolbar button to a menu. When you type this shortcut key and then
click a toolbar button, Microsoft Word adds the button to the appropriate
menu. For example, click Bullets on the Formatting toolbar to add the
Bullets command to the Format menu.

 

[Marcus]

Thanks a lot!
It's nice to know and understand more than you did before

Marcus

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Glad I could help. (Tried to answer your email, but my reply bounced.)