Keyboard shortcuts reassign themselves

Anonymous
2014-02-13T22:00:31+00:00

Word's built-in keyboard shortcuts sometimes reassign themselves.

For example, if I edit a table, such as copying and pasting cells, and return to working on the rest of the document, command-c no longer becomes available, command-v turns into "cut" and command-] becomes paste. Those functions listed in the pulldown menus no longer include those keyboard shortcuts. However, if I use the contextual menu, the cut/copy/paste functions work (and also the contextual menu lists the no longer functioning command-c/x/v shortcuts). Similar things seem to happen after I import a photo into the file.

It doesn't matter if I am working in a .doc or .docx document.

If I quit and restart the program, everything goes back to normal until I edit a table again.

This has been happening since I installed Word 2011, on my MacBook Pro and Air, and on various versions of OSX (now running 10.9.1).

Does this happen to anyone else out there?

Madeline

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-07-09T22:12:23+00:00

    Has any one checked to see if it's a problem in the 2016 Office Preview?

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-07-10T01:57:50+00:00

    As soon as I updated to Yosemite a few months ago (right, I'm a late bloomer), Word 2011 started acting on me. It rearranged the options in the Edit menu and mixed the displayed shortcuts. Luckily, unlike for some posters, it did not alter shortcut correspondence.

    I also discovered that several times a day Word enters thousands of log entries related to menu assignments. You can confirm by launching Console in Applications > Utilities, selecting "All Messages" in the list to the left and searching for "Microsoft Word."

    My solution was to disguise the Edit menu. Changing its name did not work, but moving it in the menu bar from fourth to fifth position did. (For that I used View > Toolbars > Customize Toolbars and Menus.)

    Now Word no longer finds the "Edit" menu, does not mess with it and no longer generates garbage logs.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-07-10T10:39:12+00:00

    WOW!

    That sounds like the answer. Thanks.

    Jim

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-07-10T11:37:06+00:00

    I tried to change the position of the EDIT menu and guess what happened:

    That induced the dreaded keyboard shortcuts reassignment.

    Jim

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-08-27T13:29:35+00:00

    14.5.2 version of Word 2011 and still no joy!

    It just changed the key assignments for cut, copy, paste.  It also still eventually crashes on the command-F when assigned the old Find.  The only solution is to do a Save As on the document itself.

    That fixes it for a while, until it happens again!  :-)

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