Word 2007 Beta - key combinations

[John Gough]

I've got Office 2007 Beta installed alongside Office 2003 on my
machine, but on a different drive.

In Word 2003, I have quite a number of keyboard shortcuts set up to
insert different symbols that I use frequently, all stored in
normal.dot.

If I try to set up similar shortcuts in Word 2007, where they will be
stored in normal.dotm, I cannot. I get the message "Word cannot change
the function of the specified key", even when the combination is
flagged up as unassigned.

Can anyone say if this is because I have the two versions of Word on
my machine at the say time, or if there is some other explanation,
please?

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Which keys are you trying to use for your shortcuts?

Patrick Schmid

 

[John Gough]

Which keys are you trying to use for your shortcuts?

Patrick Schmid

e.g. "Control + Shift + 5" for the "pro mille" sign
"Control + Shift + 2" for "superscript 2"
"Control + Alt + Num -" for "EM-dash"

All of them shewn as not in use for other things -- and all of them
combinations I've been able to set on Word 2003 without problem.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Office 2007 supports all keyboard shortcuts from 2003 (that includes all
the ones you have for menus and menu items) plus a whole host of new
ones to make the ribbon and QAT keyboard accessible. Therefore you are
bound to have less keyboard shortcuts available to you for customizing.

e.g. "Control + Shift + 5" for the "pro mille" sign
"Control + Shift + 2" for "superscript 2"

Control+Shift+number is used to access the items on the QAT. So
control-shift-1 triggers save, control-shift-2 undo, control-shift-3
redo, and control-shift-4 print immediately for a default Word
installation. All numbers with control-sift are reserved as they will be
used when you add additional items to the QAT.

"Control + Alt + Num -" for "EM-dash"

This makes an EM-dash by default.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi John,


Normally you shouldn't have a problem assigning those keyboard shortcuts in Word 2007. I'm not seeing the same behavior as Patrick
is on Ctrl+Shift+numeral combinations being reserved for the Quick Access Toolbar, but it may depend on what Keyboard layout and
Keyboard language you have set in Windows.

If you close Word, rename Normal.dotm, then open your older Normal.dot and save it as Normal.dotm do your previous keyboard
shortcuts work?

Are you logged in as administrator? If not, there could be a permissions problem with changing the file/registry.

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On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:19:38 +0000, "Patrick Schmid"
e.g. "Control + Shift + 5" for the "pro mille" sign
"Control + Shift + 2" for "superscript 2"
"Control + Alt + Num -" for "EM-dash"

All of them shewn as not in use for other things -- and all of them
combinations I've been able to set on Word 2003 without problem.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Hi Bob,

Normally you shouldn't have a problem assigning those keyboard shortcuts in Word 2007. I'm not seeing the same behavior as Patrick
is on Ctrl+Shift+numeral combinations being reserved for the Quick Access Toolbar, but it may depend on what Keyboard layout and
Keyboard language you have set in Windows.

That's rather interesting. CTRL-shift only works for me in Word. It
works no matter whether I have Office in German or English.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Patrick,

If you try to assign a keyboard customization of
Ctrl+Shift+1 (the keypad and the number row on the regular keys give different results) are you getting the error message or are
you able to assign the keyboard shortcuts?

An add-in in there perhaps?

===========Hi Bob,

Normally you shouldn't have a problem assigning those keyboard shortcuts in Word 2007. I'm not seeing the same behavior as Patrick
is on Ctrl+Shift+numeral combinations being reserved for the Quick Access Toolbar, but it may depend on what Keyboard layout and
Keyboard language you have set in Windows.

That's rather interesting. CTRL-shift only works for me in Word. It
works no matter whether I have Office in German or English.

Patrick Schmid <<

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Hi Bob,

Strangely no error message. The keys are listed as unassigned.
I tried it just in a VM (clean XP with clean B2) and those keys work
there as well.

Patrick

 

[John Gough]

Bob --

I tried what you suggested and still got the same result, and tried
one or two other combinations of renaming/recreating too.

Then I tried deleting normal.dotm to force a re-create and copying my
normal.dot back from another machine to replace the normal.dot on this
one. I then opened Word 2007 without a normal.dotm ... and lo and
behold, it seems to have created its new one from the normal.dot and
the key combinations I wrote of now work. I haven't tried assigning
any new key combinations yet ...

John

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi John,

Thank you for the feedback that you found a method that works.

Be sure to use the 2007 feedback tool from the link below to describe your scenario. These go directly to the MS Office 2007
product team and it sounds like Word may be getting confused if it finds both a Normal.dot and a Normal.dotm, or it could be from a
stray temp file it hasn't cleaned up.

(Use start=>search and look for files with the naming of
~$*.*

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Bob --

I tried what you suggested and still got the same result, and tried
one or two other combinations of renaming/recreating too.

Then I tried deleting normal.dotm to force a re-create and copying my
normal.dot back from another machine to replace the normal.dot on this
one. I then opened Word 2007 without a normal.dotm ... and lo and
behold, it seems to have created its new one from the normal.dot and
the key combinations I wrote of now work. I haven't tried assigning
any new key combinations yet ...

John >>
--
I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP

LINKS for the 2007 Office System

1. Read about it, try it, or watch the movie
the 2007 Microsoft Office system iinfo is at
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

2. Already have 2007 Office System Beta 2?
Send Microsoft your feedback (with pictures)
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

3. Use the 2007 OfficeOnline website without Office2007

a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033
b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net