Removing Built-In Menu Item

[Steve T]

Running Microsoft Office X, Word 10.1.4
Mac OS 10.2.8

Situation:
A student in our school is taking an AP exam. Due to a physical
impairment, she is being allowed to use a computer for the written
portion of the exam. AP exam regulations call for the word processor
to be disabled in a way that she will not be able to use spell check
or cut and paste.

I assume to disable spell check, the easiest thing to do would be to
delete the dictionary at this location:

Microsoft Office X/Office/Enlgish Dictionary

Is this a correct assumption? Can anyone think of a more effective
mechanism?

I am at a loss about how to disable copy and paste. I know you can add
items to menus and toolbars, but can you delete or disable something
that is a default. Even if you did, would not the shortcut keys still
work?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Hi Steve,

Running Microsoft Office X, Word 10.1.4
Mac OS 10.2.8

Situation:
A student in our school is taking an AP exam. Due to a physical
impairment, she is being allowed to use a computer for the written
portion of the exam. AP exam regulations call for the word processor
to be disabled in a way that she will not be able to use spell check
or cut and paste.

I assume to disable spell check, the easiest thing to do would be to
delete the dictionary at this location:

Microsoft Office X/Office/Enlgish Dictionary

That's the dictionnary, not the spell checker. The proofing tools are in
there:
/Applications/Microsoft Office X/Shared Applications/Proofing Tools

I am at a loss about how to disable copy and paste. I know you can add
items to menus and toolbars, but can you delete or disable something
that is a default. Even if you did, would not the shortcut keys still
work?

That's a tougher one :-\ You need to eliminate the menu items, the
buttons on the toolbar and the shortcut. And even then, you stil can
copy and paste through drag and drop... :-\ I'm not even sure it's
possible at all...

Corentin

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi Steve:

I suppose you could uninstall the dictionary, but that might make the
computer unnecessarily difficult for the user to operate (it might throw a
whole lot of errors in the next available language).

You may find it easier to set the Language property of the Normal Style on
that computer to No Proofing, and to click the DEFAULT button. That
disables spelling.

You can also set Preferences>Spelling and Grammar to disable the Automatic
spelling of the document.

To disable Paste, create a Macro in the Normal template as below:

Sub EditPaste ()
End
End sub

That will replace the Word Paste command with a null operation.

If she can't paste, I assume it doesn't matter whether or not she can Copy.
But you could do the same thing with Copy:

Sub EditCopy ()
End
End Sub

Hope this helps


This responds to article <[email protected]>,

Running Microsoft Office X, Word 10.1.4
Mac OS 10.2.8

Situation:
A student in our school is taking an AP exam. Due to a physical
impairment, she is being allowed to use a computer for the written
portion of the exam. AP exam regulations call for the word processor
to be disabled in a way that she will not be able to use spell check
or cut and paste.

I assume to disable spell check, the easiest thing to do would be to
delete the dictionary at this location:

Microsoft Office X/Office/Enlgish Dictionary

Is this a correct assumption? Can anyone think of a more effective
mechanism?

I am at a loss about how to disable copy and paste. I know you can add
items to menus and toolbars, but can you delete or disable something
that is a default. Even if you did, would not the shortcut keys still
work?

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