Re: A question only a typist would love...

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From: Chris Ridd (chrisridd_at_mac.com)
Date: 06/04/04 

Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 18:10:09 +0100

On 4/6/04 5:43 pm, in article BCE5F4C4.15EF1%bill@nospam.net, "Bill Weylock"
<bill@nospam.net> wrote:

> Yeah. Wish I'd said that. :)
>
>
> On 6/4/04 8:47 AM, in article BCE611CA.3DDF%rcopeland@asdflkjh.munis.com,
> "Rick Copeland" <rcopeland@asdflkjh.munis.com> wrote:
>
>> I have the same issue as Bill, and Walt's response isn't exactly what we're
>> looking for. I know where the list of keyboard shortcuts is documented...
>> The problem is that the shortcuts seemed to have CHANGED from Office X to
>> Office 2004, for no good reason that I can see, either. For example, in
[...]
> On 6/4/04 12:54 AM, in article
> BCE55CAB.1AB5%see_signature_for_real_email@address.com, "Walt Basil"
> <see_signature_for_real_email@address.com> wrote:
[...]
>>> € Keys for Microsoft Office-style text editing
>>> € Keys for Macintosh-style text editing
>>>
>>> Same thing works for Word.
>>>

(Hope I got the attributions right!)

Rick Schaut, one of the developers on Mac Word, has an interesting blog and
he mentioned they changed the keyboard shortcuts in 2004 to align with
Apple's guidelines instead of with previous versions of Office. You need to
read the whole page, but Rick's mention of this change is here:

<URL:http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2004/02/28/81575.aspx#86343>

So there *was* a reason to change the shortcuts.

There's an obvious setting in Entourage's Preferences>General to switch from
Office to Mac shortcuts, however I can't see any analogue to this switch in
Word. Presumably you could set the keyboard shortcuts in
Tools>Customize>Customize Keyboard, but that's pretty longwinded.

So I think there is a way to change back again.

Cheers,

Chris

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