Language bar context menu problem
When I right-click the language bar, the context menu is mostly obscured by the Taskbar. When I right-click other parts of the Taskbar, this does not happen.
Why doesn’t Alt,FU bring up the Page Setup?
In a newsgroup, someone asked:
Is it possible to enable the keyboard shortcut mappings for the File menu in Word 2003? i.e. in word 2003 Alt+F+U was Page Setup, but now in 2007 it shows the Publish menu in the office button.
Apparently, this was an oversight. Or, perhaps they thought nobody used this keystroke. However, if you’re used to this legacy convenience, there’s no good reason not to keep on using it. Note, if the vertical ruler is displayed, you can double-click it to bring up the Page Setup dialog. You can also double-click the upper area of the horizontal ruler. But, both of those require using the mouse and having a steady hand. If you prefer the keyboard method, then try this:
1. Press Ctrl+Alt+[plus sign on number pad]. This turns the mouse pointer into a cloverleaf.
2. Use that cloverleaf to click the Page Layout tab in the ribbon, then click on the Page Setup dialog launcher in the bottom right corner of the Page Setup section of the Page Layout tab in the ribbon.
3. This causes the Customize Keyboard dialog to appear, with the FilePageSetup command already selected.
4. Click in Press New Shortcut Key, and press Alt+F then U, it will display as Alt+F,U, as shown above.
5. Click Assign, then Close.
If you have Word set up to prompt before saving changes to Normal.dotm, click Yes when prompted.
Tip: I have FileSaveAll on my QAT so I can force Word to save Normal.dotm at any time (being careful not to save any stray Document # windows I might not want saved). [This is necessary because the old Shift+click File menu no longer exposes the Save All command, largely because the File menu has been replaced by the Pizza dialog.]
Organization Chart Add-in for Microsoft Office programs
Someone in microsoft.public.office.misc was trying to find the organization chart add-in for Office 2007. I confess–I looked, and it wasn’t there. Not in add-ins, and not where Help said it should be.
In theory, you choose Insert->Object. In the Create New tab, scroll down to Organization Chart Add-in for Microsoft Office programs, select it, and click OK. Only, it wasn’t there.
So, off I go to Office 2007 setup, and look under PowerPoint, and it’s there, and listed as if it’s installed. Clearly, it is–big as life.
But, it’s not in evidence in PowerPoint, Word, or Excel. So, I go through the motions, anyway. After pretending to change it to Run from My Computer, I then click Continue.
After a few seconds, setup says it’s done. So, I close setup and head back to Insert->Object. Now, lo and behold, I suddenly have an entry for it!
If I then click OK, the following dialog appears:
But, having said all that–I think the organization charts you get from SmartArt are much nicer. But, if you like the retro tools, now you know where to find ‘em.