Removal of Ctrl+Alt+E Excel shortcut

R

Rayasiom

I am trying to use a language program that requires the use of Ctrl-Alt-?? to
give an accent on the letter. Whenever I try use ctrl-alt-e, it opens Excel.
How do I remove this shortcut. If right-click on the excel icon and look at
properties, there is no shortcut allocated. Where can I go to disable this?
 
B

Bob I

Please look on the desktop for an Excel Icon, that Shortcut
(CTRL+ALT+letter) assignment should only work for Shortcuts found on the
desktop area.
 
R

Rayasiom

No. I have gone to every Excel Icon on desktop, QuickLaunch and Start Menu
and the properties have 'None' as allocated shortcut. I attempted to put in
Ctrl-Alt-X as a shortcut to see if it would override the ctrl-alt-e, but all
that did was give me both letters as shortcuts into Excel, so I have put the
shortcut back to 'None' and it is still starting Excel on the Ctrl-Alt-E
sequence.
 
R

Rayasiom

Thanks, but I do not want to pay for a solution that seems to be a microsoft
embedded shortcut. Pressing the Ctrl+Alt+E goes to Excel, P to powerpoint,
those are the only 2 that I tested, but they were never allocated by me.
Strange thing is, after having done nothing to my laptop, these 2 shortcuts
have gone and now ctrl-alt-e gives me the é that i require. Hopefully I can
do the same nothing to my desktop and also get the same result.
Thank you for the suggestions.
 
R

Rayasiom

Have also recently discovered that pressing the Alt Gr + e gives me the
result that I am after too - é
 
H

Harlan Grove

Bob I wrote...
Please look on the desktop for an Excel Icon, that Shortcut
(CTRL+ALT+letter) assignment should only work for Shortcuts found on the
desktop area.
Click to expand...
....

Not just on the desktop. Also need to check through the Start menu.
 
R

Rayasiom

No guys. If you read my second thread, I have stated that every single Excel
icon, be it in the start menu, quick launch menu, desktop, the actual office
folder on the c-drive, has a "None" in the shortcut key allocation section.
When I have gone and put in ctrl-alt-x as the shortcut key to see if it will
stop using the ctrl-alt-e it now uses both.
There is also a difference to Excel when it boots up with the embedded
ctrl-alt-e, unfortunately I cannot paste a screen shot into the threads, but
for a couple of seconds you get a bar in the lower right corner with the word
Excel, and to the left of the bar is the Excel Icon. If you allocate a
shortcut in the properties and use that shortcut, you do not get this bar.
I have just allocated the shortcut to Word, and it starts word, but I have
now removed it and pressed ctrl-alt-e and it has defaulted back to excel. But
again all properties have "None" in the excel icons.
 
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