Why my shortcut key for Bold option automatically change from 'Ctrl+B' to 'Ctrl+ N'? (Word for Windows)

Hi Stefan,

I appreciate that you are a volunteer here, and not working for MS.

I wanted to add that my instance of MS-Word / M365-family has also switched 'bold' from ^B to ^N.

Last week (before 'super-tuesday') it was ^B - this week, after two (!) updates to Office, it is now ^N.

Not sure if you have a 'inside link' to MS, but this is just not bloody good enough!

^B has been the shortcut for 3 decades (at least) and now some **** decides that "oh, let's break everyone's work flow and make it some random keystroke - I know! let's override "new document" and use ^N as the "bold" shortcut. that won't confuse anyone."

as you can guess, somewhat frustrated / ticked off - and not just word, the weather has buggered up the cricket too.

.h

There have been problems recently with some shortcuts being changed, especially those shortcuts that are different in different language versions of Word. The problem is being investigated by Microsoft.

You should be able to change the shortcut manually, though. Ensure that you save the modification to the Normal template, so that it applies to all documents in Word.

Same problem but Ctrl + Shift + B worked for me in Word

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2120253/keyboard-shortcut-for-bold-text-changed-in-czech-v
This link explains how to change it back.

This is so anoying! Been using these short cuts forever! I really hope Microsoft change this back ASAP. The whole office is complaining!

And always used CTRL+ N to make a new document. What is this short cut now then?