Removing Default Shortcut Keys?

[mikebmassey]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor: Intel

With Snow Leopard, I have been able to customize shortcut keys to more closely match Windows Powerpoint (I'm soooo used to using those shortcut keys). however, PP on a Mac uses different default shortcut keys. For example, to add a new slide in Windows PowerPoint, you press Cnrl-M. If you do that in Mac Powerpoint, you minimize the program.

Can you remove default shortcut keys?

Thanks

 

[CyberTaz]

I can't be sure because I've not installed Snow Leopard, but unless things
have changed drastically Control+M has historically been used for inserting
a new slide. The OS X stroke for minimizing a window is Command+M... At
least as recently as Leopard (10.5.8). The Control & Command modifier keys
typically are not interchangeable.

PPT also has a second stroke for Insert Slide: Shift+Command+N.

Keyboard shortcuts in PPT are not customizable.

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

 

[Jeff_Chapman]

I've always wondered why PowerPoint for Mac keyboard shortcuts aren't customizable, even though Excel and Word shortcuts are.

 

[mikebmassey]

Through snowleopard, you can add new shortcut keys. As I mentioned, I mapped cmd-m to be a new slide, but cmd-m is also mapped to minimize PowerPoint. But, the minimize function takes precedence over new slide. The only way I can get new slide to work is to click inside the slide pane on the left-hand side, but sometimes, minimize will take back over.

* annoyed*

Thanks for the responses though.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I've always wondered why PowerPoint for Mac keyboard shortcuts aren't

customizable, even though Excel and Word shortcuts are.

Partially because of different devDNA, I imagine.

MS developed Word and Excel but bought PowerPoint (which was originally a Mac app,
in fact).

That was quite some time ago. You'd think by now that the programmerbees would've
done their codecrosspollination thing and ...

But no.

And then there's that whole b*****d stepchild thing.

PPT's a pretty small flea at the end of the tail that the dog wags.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Mike;

Did you read my first reply? There is no need to map anything for the
keystroke to insert a new slide... One of the defaults is *identical* to the
one you asked about on the PC:

CONTROL [Not Command] + M

The other is SHIFT+COMMAND+M, but they both do the same thing.

HINT: Open the Insert menu & take a look at the New Slide -- see the symbols
to the right of the command? They represent the default keystroke. For more
on shortcuts look them up in PPT Help.

But you're right... Any keystrokes grabbed by the OS take precedence over
assignments to/in applications -- unless the OS stroke can be negated.

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

 

[mikebmassey]

CyberTaz,

I did read it, but had to re-read it just now to actual comprehend the cmd vs cntrl thing. Work great now. Thanks for the help!

 

[CyberTaz]

You bet! I know how it is to see what you 'expect' to be there rather than
what actually *is*

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