Removing items from the Work Menu

[rafaelmontserrat]

Hi McGimpsey,

My keycodes and the black bar have been acting erratically. For the
most part, the option-command-minus hasn't been changing the cursor
into the bar. Periodically it does, but when I take it to the work
menu and lift from the mouse, the bar turns back into the cursor and
never stays long enough to remove the work item.

I read your article:

Removing items from the Work Menu
If the keyboard shortcut does nothing...

I went to system prefs. and found that Universal Access was on. I
turned it off, and the first try to get the bar worked, but it turned
into the cursor, same as above.

So with both UA on and UA off, I got the same result ... no result.

Any clues?

Rafael

 

[John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]]

Hi Rafael:

The cursor does not turn into the Remove hyphen until you have a menu open.
Did you have the menu open?

Cheers

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[Daiya Mitchell]

I'm finding here that even though the black bar turned back into a arrow
when I put it on Work (as always), and stayed the arrow even as I
hovered over Work entries (a new change), it still removed the entry.

I decided to forget about the keyboard shortcut and put Remove right
there next to Add on the Work menu.

Tools | Customize Menus, click on Commands, click on All Commands in the
left column, tab to the right column, type " t o" very quickly, arrow
down to ToolsCustomizeRemoveMenuShortcut and drag it onto the Work Menu.

Right-click it, select Properties, change the name.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I'm finding here that even though the black bar turned back into a arrow
when I put it on Work (as always), and stayed the arrow even as I
hovered over Work entries (a new change), it still removed the entry.

I decided to forget about the keyboard shortcut and put Remove right
there next to Add on the Work menu.

Tools | Customize Menus, click on Commands, click on All Commands in the
left column, tab to the right column, type " t o" very quickly, arrow
down to ToolsCustomizeRemoveMenuShortcut and drag it onto the Work Menu.

Right-click it, select Properties, change the name.

As a bit of a control-freak when it comes to the Word U/I ("No!", I hear
the regulars exclaiming), I do things a bit differently.

Since the Work Menu is stored in a place that I regularly blow away, I
keep my work menu items in a text file in the Application Support
folder, and use macros in a global template to
load/save/add/delete/sort/etc, it. See

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/word/workmenu/workmenu.html

Since the ToolsCustomizeRemoveMenuShortcut is dangerous in that it can
remove ANY menu item, not just Work menu items, I disable it by, among
other things, including this macro in my Startup global template:

Public Sub ToolsCustomizeRemoveMenuShortcut()
'Do nothing
End Sub

 

[Clive Huggan]

Below.

Clive
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I'm finding here that even though the black bar turned back into a arrow
when I put it on Work (as always),

It didn't in Word 2001, unless I'm hallucinating, and I found the apparent
"disappearance" of the black bar when I went from 2001 to 2004
disconcerting. So I sympathize with Rafael.

and stayed the arrow even as I
hovered over Work entries (a new change), it still removed the entry.

I decided to forget about the keyboard shortcut and put Remove right
there next to Add on the Work menu.

A few months back, I lost the ability to remove via Command-Option-[minus].
The keyboard shortcut hasn't been hijacked by the OS. The priority to go
hunting a backed-up Normal template that might have fixed it was not high
enough, so I just left it. But your comment above made the penny drop,
Daiya! Thank you -- done!

 

[Clive Huggan]

On 1/5/07 1:58 AM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "JE McGimpsey"

As a bit of a control-freak when it comes to the Word U/I ("No!", I hear
the regulars exclaiming), I do things a bit differently.

It's not "No!" that you hear, John -- at least not initially. It's "Ow!!",
as we all hit the floor having fallen from our chairs. Then we say "No!"
....

Problem is, I have the lingering feeling, every time you give your way of
doing these things, that I should be starting the same journey myself.



Clive
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[JE McGimpsey]

Problem is, I have the lingering feeling, every time you give your way of
doing these things, that I should be starting the same journey myself.

Well, I wouldn't necessarily agree, as long as you're going to migrate
with OfficeMac. Too many of my customizations depend on VBA. I suspect
that hijacking built-in commands is going to be impossible in Word08,
and all my automatic global and document event macros will be useless in
that version.

While I look forward to playing with Word08, I suspect I'll continue
using Word04 as my primary Mac word processor for a long, long while.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Well, I wouldn't necessarily agree, as long as you're going to migrate
with OfficeMac. Too many of my customizations depend on VBA. I suspect
that hijacking built-in commands is going to be impossible in Word08,
and all my automatic global and document event macros will be useless in
that version.

While I look forward to playing with Word08, I suspect I'll continue
using Word04 as my primary Mac word processor for a long, long while.

Yes, because I have lots of macros that I use intensively I'm reserving
judgement for a while, despite being *very* impressed with some of the
features that will be in Word 2008.

CH
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