macro to change to another font

[a.fox]

I've used vba, but never with word. I usually work with Arial or Times
fonts. I do a lot of music theory writing, so I need to use Yo Tomita's
bach font for characters. I would like to streamline the process of
changing the font and returning to the original font, often with the
next character. For instance, if I want to describe and E-flat chord, I
would like to type "E" then perhaps [alt-z] which changes the font to
bach, @ (which gives me the flat sign) then [alt-x] to return to the
orignal font.

Seems like two separate keyboard-shortcut macros to me. Should I be
looking at this another way?

Andy

 

[Jay Freedman]

I've used vba, but never with word. I usually work with Arial or Times
fonts. I do a lot of music theory writing, so I need to use Yo
Tomita's bach font for characters. I would like to streamline the
process of changing the font and returning to the original font,
often with the next character. For instance, if I want to describe
and E-flat chord, I would like to type "E" then perhaps [alt-z] which
changes the font to bach, @ (which gives me the flat sign) then
[alt-x] to return to the orignal font.

Seems like two separate keyboard-shortcut macros to me. Should I be
looking at this another way?

Andy

Yes, I'd suggest defining two (or more) character styles that apply the
different fonts. You can use the Tools > Customize > Keyboard dialog to
assign shortcuts directly to the styles. No macros are necessary.

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[a.fox]

Sounds great, but I'm afraid you lost me at defining the character
styles that apply the fonts. Would you please explain? Or perhaps
direct me to a web source?

Thanks for your help.

Andy

 

[a.fox]

Sounds great, but I'm afraid you lost me at defining the character
styles that apply the fonts. Would you please explain? Or perhaps
direct me to a web source?

Thanks for your help.

Andy

 

[Jezebel]

Experiment with the Styles pane. Some styles apply to entire paragraphs
(font, spacing, indents, etc); others -- character styles -- apply only to
text. You've probably used the Hyperlink character style even if you weren't
aware of it. The suggestion is you define a character style (eg called Music
or some such).

 

[Charles Kenyon]

http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm and
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/TipsOnStyles.html
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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