Lost ability to create em dashes with command-option-number pad

[mwmosser]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi -

A strange behavior on my iMac desktop. I have lost the ability to make em dashes with my number pad. I can still make them using auto correct, but I have muscle memory that insists on doing the command-option-number pad minus key, and I can never remember to type two dashes in a row.

I have blown away the normal.dot template over and over again. No joy.

Also, this is only confined to one machine. On all my other machines (two other iMacs, two MacBook Pro, one MacBook, all running Office 2008) the em dash insert works fine.

Actually, on this machine it looks like I can't do ANYTHING with the number pad in Word except type numbers on it. Very odd.

Any ideas?

thanks -

Michael

 

[mwmosser]

Never mind. Seems to have magically fixed itself. VERY odd behavior....

Hopefully Snow Leopard will clear it up.

 

[Clive Huggan]

I'm glad of that, Michael! As an inveterate user of AutoCorrects I was
having difficulty coping with someone who preferred typing
command-option-number pad minus key! ;-)

By the way, I've set up AutoCorrect to do an em dash when I hit the
[non-numberpad] minus key followed by the plus key next to it. Just in case
you're ever tempted!

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
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[CyberTaz]

Hi Michael;

You can thank our friends at Apple for this one

Command+Option+(Numpad)- was grabbed by the OS for the Zoom In feature of
Universal Access. If you want it back you'll have to steal it away in System
Preferences> Keyboard & Mouse> Keyboard Shortcuts - Universal Access - Zoom.
If you don't use the features just remove the Check for Universal Access
itself. I like the Zoom, myself, so I reassigned Zoom In/Out to
Control+Option+(Numpad)+/- respectively.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[CyberTaz]

See my other reply - I hadn't seen this one. What most likely is happening
is that you're toggling The Universal Access Zoom on/off without realizing
it by keying Shift+Option+8.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac