Re: Cannot activate "Track Changes" on Word 2004 for Mac

Hi Elliott:

Well.... The PC Keyboard has an "Insert" key, which is normally
sufficiently close to keys I DO use that I keep hitting it by mistake,
putting Word into Overtype mode and severely raising my blood-pressure.

So I put "Paste Formatted" on the INSERT key, where it will do no harm if I
hit it by acident.

I then replace the Word command EditPaste with my Paste Unformatted macro.
That way, every time I paste, I get text only and can format the result
properly. If I ever NEED to paste formatted, I jit the INSERT key.

Except in Word 2007, where neither the macro nor the keystroke is needed
because I have customised the Word 2007 Paste Defaults to paste in plain
text when coming from "outside" the document, and to paste "Formatted" when
pasting from within the same document.

We should be prepared to dispatch industrial quantities of brick-bats to
Microsoft if that mechanism somehow doesn't make it into Word 2008 :-)

Cheers

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"Elliott Roper" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:080420072016310780%nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <C23E5759.22496%onlygeneraltaz1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, CyberTaz
<onlygeneraltaz1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey Clive -

Just because you "asked" the default assignments are:

Cmd+Opt+V = InsertAutoText
Shift+Cmd+V = PasteFromScrapbook

Heh!

My convention is to use the control key when my brain is in Microsoft
mode.
As an aide-memoire ctrl == tacky, style-free and ugly -- as in
ctrl-opt-delete.
ctrl-shift-V was therefore assigned to paste unformatted.
Note to self:
I really shouldn't go near Usenet after a decent bottle of Pomerol. It
brings out the intellectual snob in me.

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