Protecting a section disables Ctrl+Backspace shortcut

[John Pierce]

When I protect a section with protection of type ProtectedForForms, the
Ctrl+Backspace shortcut key will not work.

This only seems to pertain to Word 2007.

I have 3 continuous sections in my document. I protected the first and last
by setting ProtectedForForms=True. Now I can't get the Ctrl+Backspace
shortcut key to invoke anything! (I can edit and otherwise access the text
in the unprotected section, but not via Ctrl+Backspace.)
At this point the original 'Delete Back Word' command is inoperable. When I
map Ctrl+Backspace to a macro, the macro works until I protect my 2 sections.

With Word 2003 I can at least map Ctrl+Backspace to a macro and duplicate
the lost functionality. I cannot fix this in Word 2007. What am I missing??

 

[Gordon Bentley-Mix]

John,

Although I do not have a solution, I can confirm the existence of the issue
- so it's not something that's unique to your environment.
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[John Pierce]

Thanks for the response. It's nice to know it's not just me (or my
environment)!

Anybody know of a way I can get in-between the keyboard and a VBA macro -
short of examining each keystroke?

 

[John Pierce]

Found a work-around. It involves a change to the template and a change to
the app that is loading the template into Word.

- Added a macro with a name that was not the same as the Word command,
DeleteBackWord.
- From my controlling app, I rebind the Ctrl+Backspace keycode to my new
macro.

Now my macro gets called and I can perform the same steps that the native
Ctrl+Backspace shortcut should.

 

[Gordon Bentley-Mix]

John,

I thought that might be the solution - although I still don't understand why
DeleteBackWord shouldn't work with 2007. I'm facing a similar problem, but at
least my users are all running 2003 (with only a few exceptions) so I should
be able to get away with using DeleteBackWord for the time being.
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Gordon

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