In Word 2007, left-align now acts as a toggle?

[Rick]

Can someone confirm: in Word 2003 I used to ensure that text was left-
aligned by selecting it and pressing Ctrl-L. Now in Word 2007 if text
is already left-aligned, then when I press Ctrl-L it then formats the
text to full justification. I'm not sure that I like Ctrl-L acting as
a toggle since it assumes that you already know what kind of alignment
you have before pressing it!

 

[Stefan Blom]

I can confirm your observation. In Word 2007, Ctrl+L (assigned to the LeftPara
command) toggles between left- aligned and justified.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Rick,

I can confirm that this is a change in behavior -- although not something I
noticed until you mentioned it. I don't like it, either.

Fortunately, there's a simple fix:

- Press Alt+F8 to open the Macros dialog.
- Set the "Macros in" dropdown to "Word commands".
- Select the LeftPara command in the list.
- Change the "Macros in" dropdown to "Normal.dotm (global template)".
- Click the Create button.
- When the macro editor window appears, just close it.
- The next time you exit from Word, if you're asked whether to save changes
in Normal.dotm, say yes.

This creates a macro that runs when you press Ctrl+L or click the
left-alignment button on the ribbon, and the macro unconditionally sets the
alignment to Left without toggling.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Rick]

Yup, that does it. Thanks much.

So you don't have to specify Ctrl-L as the 'trigger key' for this
macro? It just automatically redirects any press of Ctrl-L from what
it is by default to this macro instead.

Excellent.