Increase and Decrease Font Size Shortcut keys

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m. fernandez - 01 Oct 2003 09:42 GMT

With Windows 98, I was able to use the shortcut key
commands Increase Font Size (Shift + Control + <) and
Decrease Font Size (Shift + Control + >)in MS Office
2000. I used these two commands a lot. Now I use
Windows XP Home and those commands are not available in
MS Office 2000, and cannot be created. Is there anyway to
create them again?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 01 Oct 2003 10:53 GMT

Hi M. Fernandez,

If you create two macros containing

Selection.Font.Size = Selection.Font.Size + 1

to increase the font size, and

Selection.Font.Size = Selection.Font.Size - 1

to reduce the Font Size, you can assign them to a keyboard shortcut to
facilitate their use.

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

> With Windows 98, I was able to use the shortcut key
> commands Increase Font Size (Shift + Control + <) and
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> MS Office 2000, and cannot be created. Is there anyway to
> create them again?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 02 Oct 2003 04:56 GMT

The Ctrl+> and Ctrl+< shortcuts do not increase/decrease font size by 1 pt.
They increase/decrease to the next listed point size. So, for example, if
the current point size is 12 pts, Ctrl+> will increase to 14 pts. The
shortcuts to increase/decrease by 1 pt are Ctrl+] and Ctrl+[. AFAIK, these
should all work in Word 2000 unless they have been reassigned. They work in
Word 2002.

If they are not working in Word 2000, you can reassign the keyboard
shortcuts using Tools | Customize: Keyboard... The commands in question are
GrowFont, GrowFontOnePoint, ShrinkFont, and ShrinkFontOnePoint, all of which
can be found under All Commands.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)

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> Hi M. Fernandez,
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> > MS Office 2000, and cannot be created. Is there anyway to
> > create them again?

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