Any Suggestions when assigning Shortcut Keys to Styles in MS Word XP?

[Juan C. Locarno]

I was wondering if anyone had any simple rule of thumb when it came to
assigning shortcut keys to styles in Word. I am creating a template
for use by others and wanted to create shortcut keys that would not
conflict other common shortcuts typically used. Is there a list
anywhere of unassigned shortcut keys?

Thanks,
JL

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Tools | Customize will tell you if something is already assigned when you
enter it.

Help under "Print a list of shortcut keys" will tell you how to get a list
of already assigned ones, which you could work backward from.

DM

 

[Bruce]

-----Original Message-----
I was wondering if anyone had any simple rule of thumb when it came to
assigning shortcut keys to styles in Word. I am creating a template
for use by others and wanted to create shortcut keys that would not
conflict other common shortcuts typically used. Is there a list
anywhere of unassigned shortcut keys?

Thanks,
JL
.

I freely admit to plagiarizing the following from
unidentified sources in this newsgroup. I copy helpful
answers and save them as my personal Help files, but I
don't always note the author.
For your own customizations, go to Print and select "Key
assignments" from the Print What dropdown.
For default assignments, Choose Tools, Macro, Macros.
Click the drop-down arrow next to Macros in: and choose
Word Commands. Your cursor will be located in the macro
name field with the first item highlighted. Type List to
move you down to other options and click ListCommands, then
click the Run button. You will get a dialog box asking if
you want current menu and keyboard settings or All Word
Commands. Either option will create a word table with
whichever you chose. You can then sort the table, delete
items of no interest to you, etc.