Is there a keyboard shortcut for next bracket?

[Guest]

I have not been able to find or create a keyboard shortcut to go to the "next
bracket". How do I do it?
Thank You

 

[Jay Freedman]

I have not been able to find or create a keyboard shortcut to go to the "next
bracket". How do I do it?
Thank You

There is no shortcut key because there isn't any such command built
into Word. However, a macro could be written to do that action, and a
shortcut key can be assigned to the macro.

First let me ask exactly what you mean by "next bracket". The term
"bracket" is often assigned to any of the characters ( ) [ ] { } < > .
Do you mean "go to the next occurrence of any of these characters"? Or
do you mean one specific character or pair of characters from that
set?

Or do you have in mind the function available in many programming
editors that says "if the character to the right of the cursor is any
one of the eight characters, go to the matching one in either
direction"?

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Jay Freedman
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[Charles Kenyon]

You may want to be using macrobutton fields instead of brackets for your
places to type. See
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/fields.htm#MacroButton and
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/UsingMacroButton.htm for more
about macrobutton fields.


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Charles Kenyon

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[Charles Kenyon]

If you use macrobutton fields, the key for next field is F11.
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