Can't assign Cmd+Shift+P to FileDocumentLayout

[Tim Murray]

In Word 2008, assigning Cmd+Shift+P to the FileDocumentLayout command
does not work; Word still does a "new" doc using the Project Gallery.

Do others see this?

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Here, I see what you see until I close Word (and normal.dotm is saved)
and re-open, then Cmd-Shift-P does FileDocumentlayout.

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Peter;

I think that's because Project Gallery is a separate app shared by all of
the Office programs, so the keystroke is universal. In fact, IIRC, the only
reason it worked on a restart of Word is that you had no other Office apps
open when you changed the assignment & Quit Word. If one of the other apps
had been active & remained open I believe the stroke still would not have
worked.

 

[Peter Jamieson]

You could well be right that closing all Office apps (or something more
drastic than closing Word) is necessary to make the change in the
general case. That said, I just checked here and if I make the same
change while Excel is open, then Quit Word and re-open Word,
a. the new keystroke assignment is active in Word
b. cmd-shift-P still opens the Project gallery in Excel
c. a restart of Excel doesn't reset the keystroke globally in Office
or specifically in Word

but maybe changing the assignment while other Office components are
running has a different outcome?

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

 

[Tim Murray]

Here, I see what you see until I close Word (and normal.dotm is saved)
and re-open, then Cmd-Shift-P does FileDocumentlayout.

Yes, that's what I see now. I simply never bothered to try again!