Highlight a word or phrase. Start the macro recorder (Tools - Macro - Record new macro) assign the macro a name, define if it should be stored in Normal.dot or the current file, assign a keyboard shortcut (after all this, you'll close the dialogs and end up with a recording icon) format your selected text.

You can create a keyboard shortcut for a symbol, such as the telephone symbol from the Zapf Dingbats font ( ). For example, to create a keyboard shortcut to insert the telephone symbol, you could assign COMMAND + OPTION + SHIFT + T. • On the Insert menu, click Symbol. • Click the tab with the symbol or special character that you want. If it is necessary, select a font on the Font pop-up menu. Install office 2011 for mac from 365.

• Click the symbol or character that you want. • Click Keyboard Shortcut. • In the Press new keyboard shortcut box, type a key combination that includes at least one modifier key (, CONTROL, OPTION, SHIFT ) and an additional key, such as + OPTION + F11. If you type a keyboard shortcut that is already assigned, the action assigned to that key combination appears next to Currently assigned to. • Click Assign.

• On the Apple menu, click System Preferences. • Under Hardware, click Keyboard. • On the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, click Application Shortcuts, and then click Add. • On the Application pop-up menu, click Other, click Microsoft Office 2011, and then click Microsoft PowerPoint. • In the Menu Title box, type the name of the command that you want to add.

For example, to create a keyboard shortcut for the Paragraph command on the Format menu, type Paragraph. Into the box. • In the Keyboard Shortcut box, type a key combination that includes at least one modifier key (, CONTROL, OPTION, SHIFT ) and an additional key, such as + OPTION + F11, and then click Add.

I add a lot of comments to the documents I edit in Word. And I finally went hunting for a keyboard shortcut for adding a comment balloon. It’s obscure and not listed on the tooltip for the ‘New Comment’ icon on the Review ribbon in Word 2007 (or later). And even looking for it in the Word Options > Customize > Keyboard Shortcuts area for the Review Tab was an exercise in ‘Huh?’ But I found it!

It’s Ctrl+Alt+M (that’s intuitive Not!) If you go looking for it yourself in the keyboard shortcuts list, you’ll find it under InsertAnnotation in the list of Review tab commands. I am SO glad to have found your blogtwo solutions I *desperately* needed today in less than 15 minutes!!!

Periodically rolls out updates that require us to recreate all of our custom settings (and really, there are only a few of us who have them), and I couldn’t for the life of me remember what command I needed to set my own “insert a comment” kb shortcut — Thank you!!!!! Why DO they insist on breaking things that were just fine to begin with?) The other thing you helped me with today was the Styles pane. I do NOT have “Keep track of formatting” checked, and yet ALL of the direct formatting in this document was showing up in the Styles paneand I couldn’t find *anything* about getting rid of it. Your post about “Recommended” styles got rid of most of them — thank you!! And I just found another article about turning off “Paragraph level formatting” and “Bullet and numbering formatting”, also in the Style Pane Options dialog box. Thanks again, Rhonda — I’m definitely bookmarking your site!! Caroline October 31, 2014 at 11:31 pm.