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WD: Can't Assign F14 and F15 Shortcut Keys in MacWord

Article ID: 141048

Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006

Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh

This article was previously published under Q141048

SYMPTOMS

You get a system beep or nothing happens when you try to assign commands to the following shortcut keys:

SHIFT+F14
SHIFT+F15
COMMAND+SHIFT+F14
COMMAND+SHIFT+F15
OPTION+SHIFT+F14
OPTION+SHIFT+F15

After you merge the Word Settings(5) file into Word 6.0, the SHIFT+F14 shortcut key combination appears to be available; however, it does not open the Format Paragraph dialog box.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

WORKAROUND

Use a shortcut key assignment other than those listed above.

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