"Save as..." shortcut doesn't work in 2008

[Charles]

In Word 2004 (OS 10.4.11), Shift+Command+S has always worked as a
shortcut for "Save as..." even though the shortcut itself doesn't appear
in the File menu.

Now with Word 2008, the shortcut doesn't work. Does this have anything
to do with the fact that I have both 2004 and 2008 installed on the same
drive? Any other reason?

Thank you,

Charles

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Charles,

Go into Tools | Customize Keyboard and re-assign the shortcut.

My uncustomized copy of Word 2004 shows F12 as the shortcut, not
shift-cmd-S, and same for Word 2008. I think someone changed it on your
machine at some point.

Having 2004 and 2008 installed is not problematic.

 

[Charles]

Go into Tools | Customize Keyboard and re-assign the shortcut.

My uncustomized copy of Word 2004 shows F12 as the shortcut, not
shift-cmd-S, and same for Word 2008. I think someone changed it on your
machine at some point.

Thank you--I was unaware of Tools>Customize Keyboard. (Obviously a basic
feature but like so many things in Office, one I had just never known
about.)

By the way, my Word (as well as Excel and PowerPoint) 2004 have both
Shift-Command-S and F12. I don't remember adding Shift-Command-S,
although I guess I could have and just forgot about it. I do see that
it's the OS X shortcut for Save As...
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459>. Are these
shortcuts ignored by Office applications?

Charles

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

By the way, my Word (as well as Excel and PowerPoint) 2004 have both
Shift-Command-S and F12. I don't remember adding Shift-Command-S,
although I guess I could have and just forgot about it. I do see that
it's the OS X shortcut for Save As...
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459>. Are these
shortcuts ignored by Office applications?

I was wondering if that could be it. They aren't ignored by
default--system shortcuts certainly work in Entourage.

I think system shortcuts won't override existing shortcuts, though (not
sure about that, actually), and cmd-shift-s is assigned to Style in Word
2008 (you can unassign it, if you want), so that could be a related
issue. Same in 2004, though, so I can't tell what's changed.

Tools | Customize Keyboard and now View | Customize Toolbars is possibly
the most unknown yet useful feature in Word.

 

[Charles]

I think system shortcuts won't override existing shortcuts, though (not
sure about that, actually), and cmd-shift-s is assigned to Style in Word
2008 (you can unassign it, if you want), so that could be a related
issue.

I'm not sure what is going on but in my Word 2008, Shift-Command-S
activates View>Toolbars>Formatting, which I normally have off.

Charles

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I'm not sure what is going on but in my Word 2008, Shift-Command-S
activates View>Toolbars>Formatting, which I normally have off.

Well. I haven't a clue either. Word 2008 does try its best to import
previous customizations, but I thought I had prevented it and done a
clean install. I could be wrong, or it could be picking up earlier
customizations on your end.

 

[Charles]

Well. I haven't a clue either. Word 2008 does try its best to import
previous customizations, but I thought I had prevented it and done a
clean install. I could be wrong, or it could be picking up earlier
customizations on your end.

In any event, I think I understand things a little better now--thank you
for your explanations.

Charles