Re: Word 2003 - Work menu

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Hi NGD,

Apparently you didn't try the answer in the link I gave you before posting
again, so it's a good thing I explained it verbally over in the MacWord
group.

It is true that the solutions you list don't work--I don't know who thought
they would, they all sound wrong to me (except the macro, not enough
information to know whether it is wrong).

I think instead of realizing that I linked you to a specific post with the
first link, you read that as a suggestion to do a search and got all kinds
of random guesses--but apparently, not the right answer, although it's been
asked and answered the same way several times.

The usual answer: Turn off Zoom in System Preferences | Universal
Access--the command to Zoom In is overriding the cmd-option-minus in Word.

Daiya

On 9/19/06 6:18 AM, "NGD" wrote:

Daiya,

I do appreciate your response. I posted in the Word 2003 forum because I
couldn't *find* the 2004 for Mac forum; one of the links you gave me below
worked. Thanks.

Anyway, I've returned so that anyone else who comes to the wrong forum as I
did will get the discouraging news: I'm afraid these solutions don't seem to
work anymore. I found what looked like some good answers in the links you
gave, and I tried them all. option-command-8 will give me a minus sign
cursor--which disappears when I try to use it on the Work menu. Another link
gave me Macros to remove items from the Work menu. I finally asked my
husband, who works in Visual Basic and could analyze these but hadn't known
enough about Word to write one himself, why they didn't work.

The answer? He found that the "Delete Item from Work Menu" command simply
doesn't exist anymore on any of the three Macs we have between us. Turning
the cursor to a minus sign won't do anything as a result, and a macro can't
get you to a command that seems not to exist anymore.

I do appreciate your help. I posted here because I was trying *not* to
invest hours and hours in solving a fairly minor problem. Hours later, of
course I've had to conclude that we can't solve it, and I can't use the Work
menu because I can't remove items. Another suggestion on a different forum
was to remove Work menu items one by one from the Library file the machine
keeps for Word, but we could never find the list when we opened the file in
TextEdit.

I'll go post this in the proper place as well. Maybe there is something my
husband is missing here, but as he is a professional program (though he
doesn't work with Word much), I suspect that somewhere between Microsoft and
the Mac OS something went wrong. Perhaps in a future update it will be fixed.

Best,
NGD


"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

Why does your subject line say Word 2003 (windows version) when you are
using Word 2004 on a Mac? Such typos can create great confusion.

Anyhow, this is a known issue on the Mac--I think one of the Universal
Access commands in System Preferences overrides cmd-option-minus. Here's a
good explanation:
<http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/browse_frm/
thread/75da70f31d369951/b9a9df06e9453349>

For future reference,
See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord, MacExcel,
and other MS programs for the Mac:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups>

It's hard to tell when a problem is Mac-specific--in general, if you want to
know how to do something, either the general or Mac-specific groups will
work. If something is going wrong, try the Mac groups first.

I'm guessing that you updated the OS at the same time as you updated Office,
and Apple might have turned on some Access features by default in a recent
update--my VoiceOver came on randomly and the computer began explaining what
I was doing.




--
Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/
MacWord Tips: <http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html>
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