WD98: Keyboard Shortcut Changes Under 5.1 Interface

Last reviewed: March 11, 1998
Article ID: Q180849

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SUMMARY

Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition includes a User Interface for users who are more comfortable working with a Microsoft Word 5.1 for the Macintosh Interface (5.1 menus). To use the Word 5.1 menu items and their keyboard shortcuts, the Word 5.1 toolbar, Word 5.1 ruler, and the Word 5.1 ribbon, click Word 5.1 Menus on the View menu.

NOTE: Shortcut keys mentioned in the Help topics, menus, and dialog boxes refer to the U.S. keyboard layout. Keys on other layouts may not correspond exactly to the keys on a U.S. keyboard. If you are using keyboard layout different from the version of Word you are using, you may have to make adjustments when using shortcut keys.

MORE INFORMATION

Many Word 98 keyboard shortcuts are altered when you enable the Word 5.1 interface. The following table shows the shortcuts that are altered and the differences in their behaviors in Word 5.1.

   This keyboard     Which does this in Word 98   Does this when you
   shortcut                                       enable the Word 5.1
                                                  interface

   F5                Displays the Go To tab in    Creates a new document
                     the Find and Replace dialog
                     box

   F6                Moves the insertion point    Displays the Open dialog
                     to the next pane             box

   F7                Starts the spelling checker  Saves the document

   SHIFT+F7          Starts the thesaurus         Displays the Save As
                                                  dialog box

   F8                Turns on extend selection    Displays the Print
                     mode                         dialog box

   SHIFT+F8          No action                    Displays the Document
                                                  Layout dialog box

   F13               No action                    Switches to page layout
                                                  view

   SHIFT+F13         No action                    Switches to outline view

   OPTION+F13        No action                    Switches to print
                                                  preview

   F14               No action                    Displays the Font dialog
                                                  box

   SHIFT+F14         No action                    Displays the Paragraph
                                                  dialog box

   COMMAND+F14       No action                    Displays the Document
                                                  Layout dialog box

   F15               No action                    Starts the spelling
                                                  checker

   SHIFT+F15         No action                    Displays the Hyphenation
                                                  dialog box

   COMMAND+SHIFT+OPT No action                    Displays the Customize
   ION+C                                          dialog box

   COMMAND+OPTION+I  No action                    Switches to print
                                                  preview

   COMMAND+L         Aligns text or objects to    Starts the spelling
                     the left                     checker

   COMMAND+SHIFT+L   Adds bullets from selected   Aligns selected text or
                     paragraphs                   objects to the left

   COMMAND+SHIFT+G   No action                    Starts the grammar
                                                  checker

   COMMAND+M         Indents selected text or     Displays the Paragraph
                     objects                      dialog box

   CONTROL+M         No action                    Indents selected text or
                                                  objects

   COMMAND+OPTION+N  No action                    Switches to normal view

   COMMAND+R         Aligns selected text or      Displays or hides the
                     objects to the right         ruler

   COMMAND+SHIFT+R   No action                    Aligns selected text or
                                                  objects to the right

   COMMAND+SHIFT+OPT No action                    Displays or hides the
   ION+S                                          footnote pane

   COMMAND+T         No action                    Displays the Style
                                                  dialog box

   CONTROL+5         Enables the Word 98          Enables the Word 5.1
                     interface, or switches to    interface, or switches
                     the Word 5.1 interface       to the Word 98 interface

   CONTROL+8         Enables the Word 5.1         Enables the Word 98
                     interface, or switches to    interface, or switches
                     the Word 98 interface        to the Word 5.1
                                                  interface

   CLEAR             No action                    Deletes selected text or
                                                  character to the right
                                                  of the insertion point

   COMMAND+SHIFT+>   Increases the font size to   No action
                     the next point

   COMMAND+SHIFT+<   Decreases the font size to   No action
                     the previous point

   COMMAND+]         Increases the font size one  Increases the font size
                     point                        one point

   COMMAND+[         Decreases the font size one  Decreases the font size
                     point                        one point

The following Word 98 Commands have no key sequences assigned to them under the Word 5.1 Interface:

   EditGoto
   OtherPane
   ToolsProofing
   ToolsThesaurus
   ExtendSelection

The following table lists Commands with key sequence changes between the Word 5.1 Interface and the Word 98 Interface.

   Command       Word 98 key sequence    Word 5.1 key sequence
   ------------------------------------------------------------

   RightPara     COMMAND+R                COMMAND+SHIFT+R
   LeftPara      COMMAND+L                COMMAND+SHIFT+L
   Indent        COMMAND+M                CONTROL+M

For additional Keyboard Shortcuts in Word 98 Macintosh Edition, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q177184
   TITLE     : WD98: Character Formatting Keyboard Commands

For more information about using Word 5.1 key commands in Word 98, click Contents And Index on the Help menu (or on the Balloon Help menu if you are using a version of the Macintosh operating system earlier than 8.0), click the Index button in Word Help, type the following text

   keyboard shortcuts, using

and then click Show Topics. Select the " Shortcut keys " topic, and click Go To. Under "What do you want to do?” click "Use keys for the Word 5.1 interface in Word 98." If you are unable to find the information you need, ask the Office Assistant.

Additional query words:
Keywords : kblayout kbui kbdta
Version : MACINTOSH:98
Platform : MACINTOSH
Issue type : kbinfo

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Last reviewed: March 11, 1998
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