Function Key Question

[Guest]

My computer was set up so that when you press F4, it jumps to the next * in
the document, but it won't do it anymore since we downloaded a home
inspection program that uses Word for reports. I have no idea how to assign
that function to the F4 key again. Help, please!

 

[Guest]

Maybe this will help:
On the Tools menu, click Customize.
Click Keyboard.
In the Save changes in box, click the current document name or template in
which you want to save the shortcut key changes.
In the Categories box, click the category that contains the command or other
item.
In the Commands box, click the name of the command or other item.

I wasn't sure what * sybolized so I'm sorry I couldn't be more specific

 

[Guest]

Hi PJY -

Thanks for the response. The "*" doesn't symbolize anything. The document
contains astericks to mark places in the document where I need to insert
information. When I pressed F4, the cursor moved to each asterick "*" in the
document so I could type or delete information. The document is not a form
where you tab to fill in the spaces - it's just a document someone typed and
used astericks to indicate where information might need to be typed in.
Maybe it's a macro, but I don't know how to create such a macro is that's
what it is.

Thanks so much!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you used MacroButton NoMacro fields (see
http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm) instead of asterisks, you could use
F11 to skip from one to the next. To do what you describe would require, I
suspect, a macro to Find *.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Cheryl Flanders]

Medical transcriptionists use asterisks quite often to fill in the
blanks of a standard report. If you do a Ctrl + F (Find) for the
first asterisk, then F4 will continue to find the next one. It's
possible a macro was created in the template for the Find function and
F4 was assigned as the shortcut.

Open the template (.dot file) and go to Tools/Macro/Macros (or press
Alt + F8) and see if you can find a macro name that resembles what you
are doing. If the macro is there, you can reassign a keyboard
shortcut in Tools/Customize/Keyboard.

Cheryl