Ariel Rocholl wrote:

> 2011/3/22 Gerhard Fiedler <lists@connectionbrazil.com>
>> The now one is the ribbon bar and its shortcuts. I use "paste
>> special" a lot (pasting HTML or RTF directly is often a pain; the
>> font size doesn't match, it modifies the paragraph layout, and other
>> crap), and it is available in a reasonable form from the ribbon bar
>> -- but the key sequence changes with the specific window you're in.
>> In an Outlook task it's Alt-ovs, while in an Outlook message and in
>> Word it's Alt-hvs. This is a real pain.=20
>>=20
> But as a power user, you really have an easy fix for that, right? Just
> add it to the "quick toolbar" and that will be now a simple Alt-6 (or
> any other ordinal based on your configuration). You can easily do
> that for both Word and Outlook. This is what a quick-toolbar is.=20

Thanks for the reminder... I played around with this "quick toolbar" a
bit when they updated the Office GUI, but forgot about it.

Anyway, this is a "sort-of" fix, but not quite an easy one. Each Outlook
window (message, task, ...) and possibly each Office application has
different default items in the "quick toolbar" -- and a different number
of default items. So just adding an item doesn't do it; it also needs to
be put at the same location in all possible windows. Then there's the
thing that in general, the items in the quick toolbar are /not/ the same
in the different windows and applications, but a few (hand-picked ones)
then are supposed to be the same. I find such a setup rather confusing.

It's possible to configure it "correctly", but that needs time and
diving into and replicating with every installation... Fact is that the
same function in the same application has different (default) shortcut
keys in different windows, which is something I think is a really bad
design.

Did they really take away the possibility to assign actual shortcuts to
actions? It used to be in the "Customize..." dialog, but doesn't seem to
be there anymore.

Gerhard
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