Hi Ross,
First, (I'm assuming you know this), you can open the New dialog box
with your keyboard by just pressing Alt+F, N to open the File menu and
then trigger the New ... command.
But if you want to assign a keystroke directly to that command, Word, at
least in Word 97, is a little confusing on this. First, open the
Customize Dialog box (Tools, Customize) to the Commands pane. Select
File in the left pane and look at the right pane. The first two
commands listed are "New" and "New ..." The first one is the command
triggered by Ctrl+N, which creates a new document. The second is the
command that opens the New dialog box.
However, that's not the end of the story, because if you go to the
Customize Keyboard dialog box (Tools, Customize, Keyboard) and look at
the commands for the File menu, there is a FileNew command, which
corresponds to the "New" command in the Customize dialog box, but there
is no equivalent of the "New ..." command which opens the New dialog
box. So there is no built-in command to which a keystroke can be
assigned.
The answer is that you've got to create a macro. This code will open
the New dialog box:
Dialogs(wdDialogFileNew).Show
Create a macro containing this code, and assign a keystroke to it.
However, I would not recommend assigning Ctrl+N, since the ability to
create a new document with Ctrl+N is such a basic feature of Word.
If you need help creating macros, see:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/CreateAMacro.htm
Larry
