Find & Replace (power) shortcuts for 2008

[Hyland]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Hello Mactopians*,

I'm on a mission to keep my hands on the keyboard. (Mighty Mouse, it's nothing personal. Really.)

I use Find & Replace (F+R) in Word 08 intensively. I would like to navigate the F+R dialog box (F+R.db)without leaving my keyboard.

I've heard mention of some exisiting "hidden" keyboard shortcuts (keycuts) in the F+R.db. (I have not found them on my "ListCommands" matrix. It's 1300 rows long, ya know.)

Does anyone know of any ("hidden&quot DEFAULT KEYCUTs for the FIND+REPLACE db?

Especially a KEYCUT for *REPLACE ALL*?

Does anyone know how to tweak the F+R.db such that *SEARCH ALL* becomes the DEFAULT instead of "Search down"?

Thanks tons,

Hyland

Adapted from an earlier, unanswered inquiry posed by one Nick Carter on June 11, 2009.

THANKS tons to the angel who posted the script whereby Command-V automatically pastes unformatted text. It works like a charm. And if you include a hard return with the text you copy, you *can* carry over a style if you ever want to. MAGIC!

 

[CyberTaz]

I'm not aware of any keystroke for that action, nor has a brief
investigation suggested anything to which one could be assigned.

The best I can suggest is to use the Tab key to move the focus while in the
F&R dialog, then press return when the preferred control is selected. You
may need to make an adjustment in System Preferences> Keyboard & Mouse
(although its a bit differently located in 10.6) to enable Full Keyboard
Access to "All Controls" rather than "Text Boxes & Lists Only".

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Hyland]

Thanks, Bob!

I didn't know about the ability to change "focus" -- that's a handy thing.

Alas, it didn't work, though. I think it's time to start checking out scripting!

- Hyland

 

[CyberTaz]

Hello Hyland;

My mistake -- I forgot that had been broken :-} Not sure whether it was MS
or Apple that did it... But this will do the trick:

Don't even bother Tabbing to the button. Once you specify your F&R criteria
use the keystroke: Command+A

For single replacements use: Command+R

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Hyland]

Hi Bob and HOLY SMOKES!!!

Why didn't I think to try Command-A? It's so logical!

Of course I had tried Command-R, but that didn't work.

Sometimes I think software developers have secret underground tribunals where they scheme to HIDE the best features from us peon users!

Thanks SO much; you've just saved me oodles of time!

- Hyland