Ctrl+Shft+E keyboard shortcut in Word 2007?

[Paul]

I recently installed Encarta on my laptop, and assigned the Encarta taskbar
the easy-to-remember shortcut of Ctrl+Shft+e (originally I absentmindedly
used Win+e as my shortcut, but you know why that didn't work; Shft+e was my
next unsuccessful attempt). Ctrl+shft+e seemed to work for a few days, but
then I realized that when I was in Word, it wouldn't. I couldn't find any
document online that had this keyboard shortcut, but a search result with an
expired page said that "CTRL+SHFT+E, Turn revision marks on or off." As I
said the page itself has been taken offline but the result preview said that
this is an editing shortcut.

I'm not sure what do to or how to change this shortcut--I'd really like
Ctrl+Shft+e for Encarta. How can I remove this key from Word? I went into
the Word Options/Custom/Keyboard shortcuts: customize button, but didn't see
how to find and then remove this keyboard.

Any suggestions?

 

[Jay Freedman]

I recently installed Encarta on my laptop, and assigned the Encarta
taskbar the easy-to-remember shortcut of Ctrl+Shft+e (originally I
absentmindedly used Win+e as my shortcut, but you know why that
didn't work; Shft+e was my next unsuccessful attempt). Ctrl+shft+e
seemed to work for a few days, but then I realized that when I was in
Word, it wouldn't. I couldn't find any document online that had this
keyboard shortcut, but a search result with an expired page said that
"CTRL+SHFT+E, Turn revision marks on or off." As I said the page
itself has been taken offline but the result preview said that this
is an editing shortcut.
I'm not sure what do to or how to change this shortcut--I'd really
like Ctrl+Shft+e for Encarta. How can I remove this key from Word? I
went into the Word Options/Custom/Keyboard shortcuts: customize
button, but didn't see how to find and then remove this keyboard.

Any suggestions?

You would be able to find the command in the Customize Keyboard Shortcuts
dialog if you know where to look (choose the Review category, then select
the ToolsRevisionMarksToggle command), but there's an easier way to locate
the command for any given shortcut:

Press Ctrl+Alt+number-pad plus sign. The cursor changes to a clover-leaf
symbol. Type the shortcut. The Customize Shortcut dialog will open directly
to the command assigned to that shortcut (if any), and you can then remove
or redefine the shortcut.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

 

[Paul]

That Ctrl+Alt+plus sign was a great trick. On my laptop I had to hit the
NumLock button (I don't have a separate number pad), but that did it.

OK I was able to select that shortcut, then hit remove. So now, Word doesn't
think I want to review changes etc. etc. However, when I am in Word, Word
still doesn't know that I want to go to my Encarta search bar. In Explorer,
in any folder, this shortcut combo will insert the cursor in that bar. But
in Word, nothign happens. This isn't the end of the world--I can always just
move the cursor to the bar, before I start typing, but I'd love to be able
to do this from within Word, via a shortcut. Is there anything I can do
about this?

 

[Yves Dhondt]

I think that what you are looking for is a "system wide hotkey" rather than
a hotkey that only works in a specific application.

As far as I know, there is no built-in functionality in Windows to add/edit
such a hotkey directly. However, a quick Google search turned up several
freeware applications which can add/edit such keys. Maybe you could try one
of those.

Yves