I finally found one of my favorite tips - I must have used it a dozen times this week alone. It was submitted by MARY_YBS</span> on 2/19/07:
WORD SHORTCUT:</span></span>
This is something I just figured out the other day. If you want to
change a word to bold or italics, you can put the cursor anywhere in
that word and hit CTRL+I, and it will italicize the whole word, or
CTRL+B, and it will bold the word, and you don't have to highlight the
whole word first.
Here's another one I came up with that those of you working for E
might appreciate. You know how we have to use red text sometimes? I
customized my keyboard so I can hit CTRL+D and it will change to red
text. Here's how to do that:Go to Tools, Customize. Under
the"Commands" tab, click on the "Keyboard" button at the
bottom.Under "Categories", select "Format", and then in the menu on
the right (Commands), select "Color:".When you click on "Color:", a
"Color" menu should show upwith a drop-down box for you to select the
color - select red. Thenin the box where it says "Press new shortcut
key", click in that box andpress the sequence ofkeysyou want to use
for the shortcut (in my case, I used CTRL+D). Then click "Assign".
(It will tell you if that sequence of keys is already assigned to
another shortcut).
I feel like I totally butchered that explanation. But if you want
to try it, you can PM me and I'll walk you through it. Now that I have
that shortcut set, if I want to red-text a word, I just click the
cursor anywhere in that word and hit CTRL+D, and it red-texts it. Or,
if you have a few words, you can highlight them and hit CTRL+D, and it
will red-text them.
Mary
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