re-introduce keyboard shortcuts in Task Pane

[Guest]

pre-Office 2003, the Format Style was in a floating box that I could close
by pressing the esc key. If I wanted to change the style of a selected text,
I did the following:

1. Select text
2. alt+"o"+"s"
3. "n" (if I wanted Normal style)
4. alt+"o"+enter to format the Font
5. change whatever font, etc. and press enter
6. press enter to exit the format style "floating box"

I didn't need the mouse at all!

Now, with Office 2003, I can still do # 1 and # 2, but I have to use the
mouse to:
1. look for the style (scroll up and down)
2. click on the drop-down arrow next to the style
3. Click on "Modify" to modify the style
before I can proceed with alt+"o" to make modifications.

More keyboard shortcuts please!

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can still do all of that the same way if you restore the FormatStyle
dialog to your menu.

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

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pre-Office 2003, the Format Style was in a floating box that I could close
by pressing the esc key. If I wanted to change the style of a selected text,
I did the following:

1. Select text
2. alt+"o"+"s"
3. "n" (if I wanted Normal style)
4. alt+"o"+enter to format the Font
5. change whatever font, etc. and press enter
6. press enter to exit the format style "floating box"

I didn't need the mouse at all!

Now, with Office 2003, I can still do # 1 and # 2, but I have to use the
mouse to:
1. look for the style (scroll up and down)
2. click on the drop-down arrow next to the style
3. Click on "Modify" to modify the style
before I can proceed with alt+"o" to make modifications.

More keyboard shortcuts please!

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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Melissa

FWIW, I agree with you whole-heartedly. But, in order to help you stay
productive, you can get back to some of the functionality by using a macro to
display the list of styles (similar to what one had in Word 2000 and earlier)

Sub ShowStylesDialog()
Dialogs(wdDialogFormatStyle).Show
End Sub

Assign this to a keyboard shortcut and it will open the Styles dialog box.
Using it is a bit different than what you were used to, but it's better than
what you're dealing with right now...

pre-Office 2003, the Format Style was in a floating box that I could close
by pressing the esc key. If I wanted to change the style of a selected text,
I did the following:

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

Hi Suzanne,
can you please explain further how I restore the FormatStyle as per your
suggestion?

 

[Guest]

Cindy,
loved your suggestion!
But can you teach me how to assign a keyboard shortcut to it? I've already
assigned F2 to Categories-All Commands --> Commands/ ViewTaskPane. Which
category --> command should I use for the macro I've just created?