List Word 2008 keyboard commands

[acatland]

In Word 2004 I could print a list of keyboard commands via a macro.

Is there a way of printing Word 2008 keyboard commands now that macros
are 'dead'?

 

[John McGhie]

Yes, same way as you did in Word 2004. Exactly the same way.

It wasn't a "macro", it was, and remains, an Option in the printing command.

Go to File>Print... Change "Copies and Pages" to "Microsoft Word". Then
change Print What: To "Key Assignments".

Cheers

In Word 2004 I could print a list of keyboard commands via a macro.

Is there a way of printing Word 2008 keyboard commands now that macros
are 'dead'?

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[acatland]

Yes, same way as you did in Word 2004. Exactly the same way.

It wasn't a "macro", it was, and remains, an Option in the printing command.

Go to File>Print... Change "Copies and Pages" to "Microsoft Word". Then
change Print What: To "Key Assignments".

Cheers




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Thanks for that, I had never known this.

However, it is not exactly what I wanted. This seems to give me the
keyboard commands available in any particular document I have open. I
want to be able to see all the keyboard commands across the whole of
Word. In Word 2004, this was the way it could be done (from Clive
Huggins' 'Bend Word to your will':

You can compile a document of all keyboard commands by doing the
following:
Tools menu >> Macro >> Macros... >> pop down the "Macros in:" menu to Word
Commands >> scroll down the list until you see ListCommands, then Run >>
click Current menu and keyboard settings >> OK.
A new document will be produced that lists Word's default menu and
keyboard settings (unless you have changed any of them) and any that
you have created. This list is about 16 pages long; if you choose "all
Word commands", it will be about 33 pages.

Any way of doing this in Word 2008?

 

[CyberTaz]

Yes, same way as you did in Word 2004. Exactly the same way.

It wasn't a "macro", it was, and remains, an Option in the printing
command.

Go to File>Print... Change "Copies and Pages" to "Microsoft Word". Then
change Print What: To "Key Assignments".

Cheers




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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltdhttp://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50

Thanks for that, I had never known this.

However, it is not exactly what I wanted. This seems to give me the
keyboard commands available in any particular document I have open. I
want to be able to see all the keyboard commands across the whole of
Word. In Word 2004, this was the way it could be done (from Clive
Huggins' 'Bend Word to your will':

You can compile a document of all keyboard commands by doing the
following:
Tools menu >> Macro >> Macros... >> pop down the "Macros in:" menu to Word
Commands >> scroll down the list until you see ListCommands, then Run >>
click Current menu and keyboard settings >> OK.
A new document will be produced that lists Word's default menu and
keyboard settings (unless you have changed any of them) and any that
you have created. This list is about 16 pages long; if you choose "all
Word commands", it will be about 33 pages.

Any way of doing this in Word 2008?



Unfortunately that will no longer work since VBA (macros) isn't supported in
Mac Office 2008. You might look in the Tools> Macros list of available
scripts to see if there's one for that purpose. Otherwise, try using a
search in Help for "shortcuts" & printing from the results... doing so may
provde a rather well-categorized list. FWIW, keyboard shortcuts haven't
changed all that much.

 

[acatland]

Thanks for that, I had never known this.

However, it is not exactly what I wanted. This seems to give me the
keyboard commands available in any particular document I have open. I
want to be able to see all the keyboard commands across the whole of
Word. In Word 2004, this was the way it could be done (from Clive
Huggins' 'Bend Word to your will':

You can compile a document of all keyboard commands by doing the
following:
Tools menu >> Macro >> Macros... >> pop down the "Macros in:" menu to Word
Commands >> scroll down the list until you see ListCommands, then Run >>
click Current menu and keyboard settings >> OK.
A new document will be produced that lists Word's default menu and
keyboard settings (unless you have changed any of them) and any that
you have created. This list is about 16 pages long; if you choose "all
Word commands", it will be about 33 pages.

Any way of doing this in Word 2008?

Unfortunately that will no longer work since VBA (macros) isn't supported in
Mac Office 2008. You might look in the Tools> Macros list of available
scripts to see if there's one for that purpose. Otherwise, try using a
search in Help for "shortcuts" & printing from the results... doing so may
provde a rather well-categorized list. FWIW, keyboard shortcuts haven't
changed all that much.

Thanks, it was there under ListCommands

 

[John McGhie]

Take your point. The User Interface is a little confusing

The list that comes off the print menu is the same list as you will get
using the command (it runs the command...)

The keystrokes are stored in the template, they should never be stored in
the document. A .docx cannot store keystroke customisations, a .dotm can,
but then it can't function as a document...

So the list that is printed will come from whichever template is attached to
the document from which you print.

For basic users, that's always the Normal template, so the list will never
vary.

Users sophisticated enough to be using Attached Templates or Add-ins will of
course get different lists, but they will also understand what is going on
because they would have attached the template on purpose.

Or their System Administrator loaded the template as a Global, in which case
the user probably shouldn't be playing with the keystrokes in it

Cheers

Thanks for that, I had never known this.

However, it is not exactly what I wanted. This seems to give me the
keyboard commands available in any particular document I have open. I
want to be able to see all the keyboard commands across the whole of
Word. In Word 2004, this was the way it could be done (from Clive
Huggins' 'Bend Word to your will':

You can compile a document of all keyboard commands by doing the
following:
Tools menu >> Macro >> Macros... >> pop down the "Macros in:" menu to Word
Commands >> scroll down the list until you see ListCommands, then Run >>
click Current menu and keyboard settings >> OK.
A new document will be produced that lists Word's default menu and
keyboard settings (unless you have changed any of them) and any that
you have created. This list is about 16 pages long; if you choose "all
Word commands", it will be about 33 pages.

Any way of doing this in Word 2008?

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50