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hanstrans

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Dec 20, 2004, 1:47:05 PM12/20/04

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Is there a way in Word 2003 to turn of Research and/or to reassign Alt-Click
to selecting a table column?

Klaus Linke

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Dec 20, 2004, 5:12:51 PM12/20/04

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hanstrans wrote:
> Is there a way in Word 2003 to turn of Research and/or to reassign
> Alt-Click to selecting a table column?

Unfortunately, nobody has figured out how to do that.

Usually, you should be able to intercept the command that looks up a word in the
research pane by creating a macro with the same name, and have it select a table
column if the selection is in a table.

Alt+Click seems to do the same as the command "ResearchLookup".
But probably, Alt+click calls some other, undocumented command which hasn't got
a name. At least, it can't be intercepted using a macro "Sub ResearchLookup".

:-(
Klaus

Klaus Linke

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Dec 20, 2004, 6:11:42 PM12/20/04

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Errrm, I was a bit befuddled here:
You never have been able to intercept Alt+Click, or other mouse-related
shortcuts, in any version of Word.

"ResearchLookup" has another shortcut besides Alt+Click: Ctrl+Shift+O.
Looks as if the designers wanted another, simpler shortcut for that new feature,
and probably we're now stuck with it.

The best we can do is assign a new keyboard shortcut to "ColumnSelect".

8-/
Klaus

Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Dec 20, 2004, 7:44:50 PM12/20/04

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Luckily, for selecting columns you do have a built-in alternative:
Shift+Right-click. As a substitute for Alt+Double-click to select the entire
table, you can, if you have a numeric keypad, press Alt + Num 5 (with
NumLock *off*).

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Klaus Linke

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Dec 21, 2004, 4:47:54 AM12/21/04

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> Shift+Right-click

Hi Suzanne,

Wow!! Bet you didn't discover that one in the help files?
I didn't find most of the shortcuts involving the mouse there.

Some others:
Ctrl+drag (object/text/table...): Create a duplicate,
Ctrl+Shift+Drag (object/text/table...): Create a link,
Ctrl+Drag or Ctrl+Shift+Drag selection to the Windows desktop or into an
Explorer folder: Create a scrap file,
Ctrl+Right-click: Move the selection to a new location,
Ctrl+Double-click (picture): Resize to original size,
Alt+Drag: Column select mode.

Did I miss any shortcuts in the document window? (There are quite a few others
in the UI, like double-clicking on a toolbar for "Tools > Customize", or
Alt+Drag tabs ...)

Klaus

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Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Dec 21, 2004, 10:17:54 AM12/21/04

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A user submitted this (Shift+Right+click) to word.mvps.org, and Jonathan
passed it on to me. Evidently John McGhie discovered the other one, which
unfortunately is no good to me because I don't have access to the numeric
keypad. :(

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Diamonds_Mine

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Mar 21, 2005, 2:31:04 PM3/21/05

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Is the "final answer" that one cannot disable Alt+Click as a keyboard
shortcut in Word?

Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Mar 21, 2005, 7:26:35 PM3/21/05

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That is correct. I'm hoping MS will have this fixed in Word 12.

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