does not work for normal.dot (or any other template file, as I already said), that's why I posted this question ..
It works for other keys like Alt+H, but not Alt+T, Alt+B .
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assign shortcut to Alt+T, Alt+B, Alt+Shift+T
how do I assign my macros or commands to these keys and store them in normal.dot?
Sounds simple, works but will not be stored anywhere, hence the assignment is lost after closing word.
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geneus, does it work for you?
You can get a list of assignments via Tools/Macros/Macro. Choose Macros in: Word Commands and select 'List Commands' and choose 'Current menu and keyboard settings'. Neither Alt+T nor Alt+H are in the list on my system.
Alt+T is normally assigned to the Tools menu item, but Customize doesn't tell you that.
You can try to rename your current Normal.dot to Normal.O17.
Restart word letting it recreate you a new Normal.Dot file.
Select Tools . . . Templates and Add-Ins
Click Organizer
On the Left, Close the File
Click Open file and browse to the Normal.O17 and open it.
Copy your macros, Styles,Autotext, and toolbars to the Normal.Dot file
Close out of the organizer and restart MS Word
Select Format . . . Font
Change the font and click the Default button
Click the Yes button and restart Word making sure the Default font has saved.
Open a blank document
Retry assigning the keystrokes.
After reassigning the keystrokes, Open the Visual Basic Editor (Tools . . . Macro . . . Visual Basic Editor)
Select File . . . Save normal to save the Normal.dot
NOTE: Do not Open the Normal.Dot file directly to do this as it will not save.
It is certainly beginning to sound as if there is something wrong with your Word installation. Try these troubleshooting steps.
http://www.officearticles.
it ends up as usual with M$: reformated the disk, reinstalled everything, didn't use any bit or byte from previous installation, and what suprise: it works!
Background:
All this happend on fresh installed system, just the office data have been migrated to to the new system using Office Export Tool (bundled with M$ Office) and imported that data on the new system. After that normal.dot seems to be unusable and denies setting the keys as mention in the question (but still allows other keys).
Having that it mind, I did what everyone will tell you: install on a clean system, never ever use anithing generated by M$ tools. Simple, isn't it?
The link to troubleshooting didn't help either, but contains a lot of usefull information (but I doubt it will always work as described, according my experiance, see above:-))
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by: geneusPosted on 2007-10-17 at 04:45:20ID: 20092336
In Word:
1. On the Tools menu, click Customize.
2. Click Keyboard.
3. In the Save changes in box, click the current document name or template in which you want to save the shortcut key changes.
4. In the Categories box, click the category that contains the command or other item.
5. In the Commands box, click the name of the command or other item. Any shortcut keys that are currently assigned appear in the Current keys box.
6. Click the Press new shortcut key box and press the shortcut key combination you want to assign. For example, press ALT plus the desired key. Look at Currently assigned to to see if the shortcut key combination is already assigned to a command or other item. If so, select another combination.
7. Click Assign.