Font Menu navigation

[Carl L Cooper]

I frequently use the Verdana font which appears miles down the list in the
Font menu and takes a long time to reach. Is there any way to jump to it
quickly? Hitting the ³v² key does nothing.

 

[little_creature]

That it what I wanted just to suggest - to prepare a template where the body
is Verdana or to create style in Normal template and assign keyboard
shortcut to it.

 

[CyberTaz]

Font Menu navigationIf you use it *very* frequently you may want to set it
as your default font.

Another option is to add a button for it to a toolbar, although others will
say that it would be even better to create a Style that includes Verdana as
the specified font as well as any other attribs that might normally
accompany its use.
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HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

I frequently use the Verdana font which appears miles down the list in the
Font menu and takes a long time to reach. Is there any way to jump to it
quickly? Hitting the "v" key does nothing.

 

[Clive Huggan]

And here's a quick way to do what Cybertaz said, Carl: suppose you create a
style with the Verdana font and other characteristics as CyberTaz suggested,
which you title "body text verdana,btv". You can invoke the style from the
keyboard, in a split second, by keying Command-Shift-s followed by btv
followed by the Return key. (If you are in Word X rather than 2004 or 2001,
post back for an important extra detail.)

Having such a short keyboard shortcut is possible if you follow the name of
the style you choose with a comma and an abbreviation (but no space between
those 2 elements), hence "body text verdana,btv".

For more information, see 'Formatting paragraphs by styles' on page 85 of
some notes on the way I use Word for the Mac, titled "Bend Word to Your
Will", which are available as a free download from the Word MVPs' website
(http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html).

[Note: "Bend Word to your will" is designed to be used electronically and
most subjects are self-contained dictionary-style entries. If you decide to
read more widely than the item I've referred to, it's important to read the
front end of the document -- especially pages 3 and 5 -- so you can select
some Word settings that will allow you to use the document effectively.]

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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