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
    2014-02-23T22:01:16+00:00

    At least you asked for a magic incantation to mutter as opposed to cursing the Organizer!  :-)

    Your question is a good one.  Maybe one of the mavens around here can answer.  I've used the Organizer for importing Styles; didn't realize it could be used to import Toolbars!!

    Don't see a tab for keyboard shortcuts, although I would have expected them to be included in the Normal template.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-02-24T00:16:14+00:00

    AFAIK - there is not any "factory" supplied method to transfer global key assignments from one template to another and this includes the Normal template.

    I will use the Normal template as my example for the following and know that it will also work for any custom template that is attached to the active document.

    You can printout the Global Key Assignments you have made by opening any document that has the Normal template attached and selecting File > Print. From there change the "Copies and Pages" selection to "Microsoft Word".

    Then change "Print What" to "Key Assignments" and click the Print button.

    This will give you a list of your custom assignments. You will need to enter them again into your new global template.

    I believe the only method of automating this process would be with a macro and even then I don't think it would be perfect. Here is code that will list the KeyBinding entries in the Normal template and additional code would be needed if an attempt was made to store the bindings from one template and add them into another.

    Sub KeyBindingEntries()

        Dim kb As keyBinding

        CustomizationContext = NormalTemplate

        For Each kb In KeyBindings

            Debug.Print kb.KeyString; vbTab; kb.Command

        Next

    End Sub

    As I said, I don't believe it would be a perfect transition due to some key bindings being made to Word functions such as FileOpen or FileClose and others that might have been made to Word objects such as Styles or Symbols.

    That's probably all just gibberish to most but the bottom-line is that it's complex and that's probably why there isn't any "factory" supplied method to do it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-04-07T13:53:58+00:00

    In an earlier post in this thread, I mentioned backing up

    Proofing Tools Preferences  

    However, I can't find it anymore!  Anyone know where the file is in Word 2011?  Maybe it's been subsumed into another preference document.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-06-13T21:56:33+00:00

    Me too. Did you resolve the issue?

    Thanks,

    Jim

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-06-15T21:10:56+00:00

    Which one?  :-)

    The re-assinging keeps happening to me.  When it does, I save and quit what I'm doing-- and relaunching Word resets the keystrokes.

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