Re: Keyboard shortcuts ( Alt + any) stopped working in Word docume

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Well, fiddling with Office does give you something to do while it's subzero
outside. :-) Besides, you can use the heat from the overworked hard drive to
keep your hands warm.

FWIW, I've wasted a lot more time on problems of my own that had even more
obvious causes...

At least now you're back in business!

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Jay Freedman
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Ben wrote:
Jay,

I find it hard to believe that I could be soooooo ... Arggghhh! I
feel like such an Orpington. New computer, new keyboard and the durn
little Num Lock light is almost invisible.

I'd blame it on the weather, but we did finally make it above zero in
this part of Montana.

I apologize for taking up your time for something so incredibly
simple. I will add this little item to my list of "Check first ...
then panic," order of things to do.

Many thanks for solving this problem.

Ben



I wish I had another suggestion for you. You've thoroughly
eliminated all the probable software causes I know of.

If the problem were not in Word only, I'd think it might be a
hardware malfunction in the keyboard, but that isn't likely here.

When you say Alt + any, are you talking about just the Alt+number-pad
shortcuts for single characters, or does it also affect Alt+letter
combinations for menus and Alt+function key combinations? If it's
just the number-pad things, are you sure you have NumLock turned on?

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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Ben wrote:
Jay,

Thank you for your quick and informative reply.

I followed your suggestions with these results:

Starting Word with the /a switch in command line - Word started, but
the shortcuts did not. (The "em dash" in the previous line was made
using the Alt 0151 shortcut ... I know the little rascals are in
there somewhere).

Next went to section 4. Located the Startup2 path folder following
instruction and this folder was empty.

Located Normal.dot file in Factory Preset Startup Path and changed
to .old, deleted it, moved it to Startup2, changed to .old and
finally deleted it ... all to no avail.

Made a search and found a Global Template in the Temporary Internet
File, deleted it.

Found templates for Word located in a Templates file and tried
renaming the Normal.dot and finally deleted all of them ... same
result ... no shortcuts.

Com Add-ins; only have one. Web page Wizard and that is not selected
and its Load Behavior is, load on demand.

The computer is running the latest version of Norton Internet
Security with up-to-date virus definitions.

I have not installed any new software nor experienced this problem
before. I'll run a full virus scan and see if that turns up
anything, but I'm not holding out much hope for that.


Your thoughts on what the next course of action would be greatly
appreciated.

Thank you again,

Ben



First try starting Word with the /a switch in the command line (see
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=210565), which suppresses
loading of the Normal.dot template and any add-ins. If that makes
your shortcuts work, then you have to find out which template is
the culprit. Note: the /a switch is _not_ a fix --it's just a
troubleshooting tool. Don't stop there!

For steps to track down the cause, go to section 4 of
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm.
Ignore the fact that the problems described there don't match
yours; the steps are the same.

By the way, uninstalling and reinstalling Word doesn't remove or
replace Normal.dot or most add-ins, so it almost never cures any
problems.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

Ben wrote:
Keyboard shortcuts in any Word document, new (template or
document), previously saved word documents, stopped working. Try
to use and nothing happens.

Shortcuts do work in Notepad, Wordpad and other applications such
as indexing software.

Word>Tools>customize>keyboard>reset all = is grayed out.

XP Professional, Word 2000

Uninstalled/reinstalled word as a last resort ... still have
problem.

I have no idea how or what caused this anomaly, but would be very
appreciative to learn how to restore the keyboard shortcut
function.

Thank you,


.

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