Deleting Items from Work Menu in Word 2004

[Matthew Leingang]

Hello,

I was playing with the 'Work' Menu in Word 2004 and put a document there.
Now I want to remove that document from the menu, but I'm having trouble.

First I searched help on doing this and it says to press
command-option-minus, and the pointer should change to a black minus sign.
Then I can just click on the menu item and it should go away. Put
command-option-minus doesn't do anything on my machine.

Then I tried to remove it through menu customization, but what appears when
editing the 'Work' toolbar is a '(List of Work Items)' item that can't be
deleted.

Is there a file in which this information is kept so I can just manually
delete it (I guess I'm showing my unix roots when requesting such a thing)?
I googled but didn't find any information about this problem. Any clues?

Thanks,
Matthew Leingang

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I was playing with the 'Work' Menu in Word 2004 and put a document there.
Now I want to remove that document from the menu, but I'm having trouble.

First I searched help on doing this and it says to press
command-option-minus, and the pointer should change to a black minus sign.
Then I can just click on the menu item and it should go away. Put
command-option-minus doesn't do anything on my machine.

Then I tried to remove it through menu customization, but what appears when
editing the 'Work' toolbar is a '(List of Work Items)' item that can't be
deleted.

Is there a file in which this information is kept so I can just manually
delete it (I guess I'm showing my unix roots when requesting such a thing)?
I googled but didn't find any information about this problem. Any clues?

Thanks for posting - it reminds me that I owe John McGhie a
word.mvps.org article.

The most likely problem is that you've got Universal Access enabled in
the System Preferences/Keyboard and Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts pane.

If Universal Access is enabled, by default the system intercepts the
CMD-OPT-8 combination and toggles zooming on and off.

You can uncheck the appropriate checkbox in that pane to restore the
remove from menu command.

 

[Matthew Leingang]

Thanks! That sure did the trick.

--Matt

Thanks for posting - it reminds me that I owe John McGhie a
word.mvps.org article.

The most likely problem is that you've got Universal Access enabled in
the System Preferences/Keyboard and Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts pane.

If Universal Access is enabled, by default the system intercepts the
CMD-OPT-8 combination and toggles zooming on and off.

You can uncheck the appropriate checkbox in that pane to restore the
remove from menu command.