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MS Office Forum / Word / Document Management / May 2008Research Panel: keyboard shortcut to close?
Is there a keyboard shortcut to close the Research Panel in Word & Outlook (new message window); if so what? You can try F6, Ctrl+Space, C. Not exactly a shortcut. In Word, you can create a macro to do it, then assign the macro to a keyboard shortcut. The following is the macro I use to toggle the research panel on/off: Sub ResearchToggle() CommandBars("Research").Visible = Not (CommandBars("Research").Visible) End Sub I assigned it to Ctrl+Shift+T, since I never use the keyboard shortcut for UnHang (the default assignment to Ctrl+Shift+T). If there's a way to make similar keyboard shortcuts in Outlook, I haven't discovered it yet.  SignatureHerb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com > Is there a keyboard shortcut to close the Research Panel in Word & Outlook > (new message window); if so what? Thanks Herb. That really helps in Word. As you implied, it's possible to make the same macro in Outlook, but running it croaks, and I can't find a way to implement a keyboard shortcut for it anyway. If anyone figures this out for Outlook please post the solution here. TIA! > You can try F6, Ctrl+Space, C. > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Is there a keyboard shortcut to close the Research Panel in Word & Outlook > > (new message window); if so what? The only way I've been able to implement keyboard shortcuts in Outlook is to put the macro onto a toolbar and give it a hot key/accelerator using the & designation. In Outlook 2007, this works only at the main Outlook window, however, since windows for messages, contacts, etc. no longer have customizable menus/toolbar. I haven't delved into ribbon customization, however, so I don't know what possibilities might exist when going that route. SignatureHerb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com > Thanks Herb. That really helps in Word. > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >> > Outlook >> > (new message window); if so what? Hi Herb, FYI, for your macro, when I use it in Word 2007, if the research pane has been displayed once during the Word seesion then the macro works, but if the Research Pane has not previously been displayed then I get a runtime error from Word if "Method 'Visible' of object 'CommandBar' failed". =========== You can try F6, Ctrl+Space, C. Not exactly a shortcut. In Word, you can create a macro to do it, then assign the macro to a keyboard shortcut. The following is the macro I use to toggle the research panel on/off: Sub ResearchToggle() CommandBars("Research").Visible = Not (CommandBars("Research").Visible) End Sub I assigned it to Ctrl+Shift+T, since I never use the keyboard shortcut for UnHang (the default assignment to Ctrl+Shift+T). If there's a way to make similar keyboard shortcuts in Outlook, I haven't discovered it yet. SignatureHerb Tyson MS MVP >> -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* Interesting. Since I'm constantly turning the research bar on by accident, I hadn't ever encountered a situation where it had not previously been displayed during a Word session. So, I never noticed. This should fix it, though: Sub ResearchToggle() On Error GoTo Boo CommandBars("Research").Visible = Not (CommandBars("Research").Visible) GoTo EndIt Boo: Application.Run MacroName:="Research" EndIt: End Sub SignatureHerb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Bob Buckland ?:-)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote > Hi Herb, > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > If there's a way to make similar keyboard shortcuts in Outlook, I haven't > discovered it yet. Hi Herb, Yes, that did fix it in Word :) Thank you. Separately, it also looked like the use of Application.Run MacroName:= to execute a Word command might be a solution for putting the Word built in command DrawInsertLine into a macro so it could be put on the QAT. Th DrawInsertLine command can be assigned a keyboard shortcut to execute and lets you draw a Word 97-2003 style line (blue sizing handle) in a Word 2007 document rather than the Word 2007 Insert=>Shape=Line that inserts a 'straight connector'. The 'old style lines' let you use things like 'Edit points' from the right click menu, but aren't included in Word 2007's Insert=>Shape menu, but without being able to put it in a macro it's not a 'visible' addition I could make to add it to the QAT, and saving an already drawn line to a Building Block isn't quite the same as getting the cross hair cursor to draw one <g>. Bob ?:-) ========== Interesting. Since I'm constantly turning the research bar on by accident, I hadn't ever encountered a situation where it had not previously been displayed during a Word session. So, I never noticed. This should fix it, though: Sub ResearchToggle() On Error GoTo Boo CommandBars("Research").Visible = Not (CommandBars("Research").Visible) GoTo EndIt Boo: Application.Run MacroName:="Research" EndIt: End Sub SignatureHerb Tyson MS MVP >> |
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