Right-click at cursor for style option

[Jay Gordon]

I get tired of clicking at paragraphs, or selecting text, and then having to
manually select the style from the Styles toolbar and/or Formatting Palette.
It would be great if I could just click in a paragraph, or highlight some
text, and then right click to have a pop-up menu that includes submenus for
Paragraph and Character Styles. This would give a seamless action to
designate the styles you want in precisely the spot you want them, with just
a single right-click and selection from the menu.

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[Jay Freedman]

I get tired of clicking at paragraphs, or selecting text, and then
having to manually select the style from the Styles toolbar and/or
Formatting Palette. It would be great if I could just click in a
paragraph, or highlight some text, and then right click to have a
pop-up menu that includes submenus for Paragraph and Character
Styles. This would give a seamless action to designate the styles you
want in precisely the spot you want them, with just a single
right-click and selection from the menu.

It's already possible to customize Word to do this. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm, and pay
special attention to part 2c and the note in part 4 for assigning commands
to the shortcut (right-click) menus. The Styles category in the Tools >
Customize dialog gives you a selection of all the available styles (but you
probably don't need to add them all, which would give you a huge and
unwieldy menu).

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Moreover, if you have Word 2002 or above, the Styles and Formatting task
pane makes styles much more easily available than the Style dropdown.