Feedback to Microsoft

[Huber57]

Does anyone know if MS takes feedback for correcting errors for its office
suite?

I found a tiny mistake with Word 2007. When you hover over the Grow Font
button on the Home ribbon, it shows a shortcut key of Ctrl + >. When the
shortcut key is actually Ctrl + Shift + >.

I know it is minor but it may help someone along the way.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

They amount to the same thing, as Ctrl+> is actually Ctrl+Shift+Period. You
can't type > without pressing Shift.

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

 

[Yves Dhondt]

Wouldn't that depend on your keyboard layout?

Yves

 

[Stefan Blom]

Yes. For example, on my Swedish keyboard, > is Shift+<.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

So you can't really give keyboard shortcuts in terms of the character
shown -- the one we use a lot here, Show Non-Printing Characters, has
to be given as Ctrl-Shift-8 because the asterisk is in different
places on other keyboards, but the shortcut doesn't follow the
asterisk around the keyboard.

I have sort of accidentally made this discovery: If I'm in a keyboard
for a different script entirely (Sinhala was the one I was most
recently using), my keyboard shortcuts for accented letters still
work: Ctrl-Alt-Hyphen, e still gives an e with macron.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

But presumably Ctrl+> is the correct shortcut regardless of how it is
achieved? I think that's the point. If you have to shift to get >, then
Shift is part of >. For those of us with a U.S. keyboard, Ctrl+< would be
Ctrl+Shift+Comma, but for you, obviously, it would just be Ctrl+<.

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

 

[Stefan Blom]

Yes, you are right: if the screentip says Ctrl+> that is what you need
to type, of course, no matter which specific keys you have to press to
achieve >.

It's a bigger problem that shortcuts are different in different languages or
keyboard layouts; Peter mentions the case of Ctrl+Shift+8 (ShowAll) which on
my system is Ctrl+(. Not surprisingly, Shift+8 inserts ( on my system.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

And I can never remember whether the universal shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+8
(regardless of what Shift+8 is) or Ctrl+* (regardless of where the asterisk
is), so I'm constantly dithering over giving that.

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

 

[Stefan Blom]

In this particular case, I think Ctrl+Shift+8 is more general, as I would
imagine that most (or even all?) keyboards have the numbers below the
function keys (that is above the letters).

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

One of my early Gateway keyboards had an unshifted asterisk down near the
spacebar, perhaps on what is now the key that brings up the context menu. It
was very handy in the old DOS days when asterisks were often part of a
command line but I guess fell out of favor in Windows (especially as
keyboards gave up space for the dedicated "Windows keys," but you have to
wonder whether Ctrl+* would have worked with that key.

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