Lost Format>Document option

[conlan27]

I need to access the Format>Document menu option (to change line
numbering), but it's disappeared. The only options are Font and
Paragraph. Does anyone know where Document went?

Thanks,
Conlan

 

[conlan27]

Never mind. I got it back by resetting the tool bar, as suggested in a
previous thread. But does anyone know how it could have disappeared in
the first place?

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

The lurking keystroke is Command + Option + minus.

Hit that, and the next menu item you choose will be deleted! It's the
"Remove item from menu" command...

Cheers

There has recently been a rash of this being discussed here. I put it
down to Word flu.
Maybe there is a secret default keystroke combo waiting for us hapless
noobs to mistype?
I lost one menu item a while ago, and I'm sure I did nothing to provoke
it, but then I'm always mucking about trying to remember what daft
combo I assigned to an even dafter macro I'd almost forgotten about.

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[Clive Huggan]

Problem is: In OS 10.3 onwards, you'll also find that this keyboard shortcut
doesn¹t work.

Go to System Preferences => Keyboard and mouse => Keyboard shortcuts =>
Universal Access => de-select the Zoom Out tickbox (or if you want to have a
keyboard shortcut for that command, assign another combination for Zoom
Out).

For work-arounds for other well-used Office keyboard shortcuts recently
h*jacked by OSX, see pages 21, 104 and 105 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/MacWordNew/Bend/BendWord.htm).

[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
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[Beth Rosengard]

Command + Option + minus is the command to remove an item from the *Work*
menu, not from *any* menu.

Beth

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

It works for any menu. The next thing you click on is gone.

I think the official name is actually ToolsCustomizeRemoveMenuShortcut.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Well, THAT'S a pain in the butt! How nasty of the Word Help not to mention
that little fact in the bit about removing items from the Work menu.

Beth

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

This problem has created its very own FAQ in WinWord.

Scroll down to "how you lost it" on this page, if interested:
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/LostSymbol.htm

I've not actually double-checked to ensure MacWord works the same way, but I
would expect it to.