Re: Reclaim Ctrl-Space in Vista?

"Willy" <> wrote in message
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> Ctrl-Space is one of the most frequently used keys in Word 2003 as it
> changes back from for example bold or italic to normal character
> formatting.
>
> However, Vista has somehow claimed this key for other purposes and even
> after a lot of searching I haven't found a way to reclaim it.
>
> Is this at all possible?
>
> Willy

Ctrl+B bold
Ctrl+B again unbold
Ctrl+I italic
Ctrl+I again unitalic
Ctrl+U underscore
Ctrl+U again remove underscore.

Has always worked, and still does.
Take a while here:
http://office.microsoft.com/training...CH102247601033

"Willy" <> wrote in message
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> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles W Davis" <>
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 2:06 AM
> Subject: Re: Reclaim Ctrl-Space in Vista?>
>
>> "Willy" <> wrote in message
>> news:gnklas$2shn$...
>>> Ctrl-Space is one of the most frequently used keys in Word 2003 as it
>>> changes back from for example bold or italic to normal character
>>> formatting.
>>>
>>> However, Vista has somehow claimed this key for other purposes and even
>>> after a lot of searching I haven't found a way to reclaim it.
>>>
>>> Is this at all possible?
>>>
>>> Willy
>>
>> Ctrl+B bold
>> Ctrl+B again unbold
>> Ctrl+I italic
>> Ctrl+I again unitalic
>> Ctrl+U underscore
>> Ctrl+U again remove underscore.
>>
>> Has always worked, and still does.
>> Take a while here:
>> http://office.microsoft.com/training...CH102247601033
>
>
> Hi Charles,
>
> I'm sure your intentions are the very best, but since I'm asking how to
> reclaim Ctrl-Space that _might_ just be because I wonder if it is possible
> to reclaim Ctrl-Space. And since this is a Vista group and not a Word
> group that just _might_ be my conscious choice because I had a Vista
> question and not a Word question. :-)
>
> We all have our different ways of working with Word and other software and
> fortunately there are several ways to turn off character formatting. So
> the problem here isn't that I'm stuck with bold formatting and have no
> clue about how to turn it off. The problem is Vista's behaviour, which is
> different from earlier Windows versions.
>
> I'm not only a professional writer, I teach others advanced ways of using
> Word, including VBA programming. Of course there was no way to know that
> from my message, so again, thanks for your willingness to help.
>
> Willy
>
The Windows Vista keyboard short cuts are discussed at length:
http://forums.techarena.in/tips-tweaks/721773.htm
Good luck!

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:13:04 +0100, Willy wrote:

> "Charles W Davis" <> wrote in message
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>>
>> The Windows Vista keyboard short cuts are discussed at length:
>> http://forums.techarena.in/tips-tweaks/721773.htm
>> Good luck!
>
> Could you point me to the part of this discussion that provides an answer to
> my question? That is, what I can do in Vista to make Ctrl-Space available
> again to other programs, like Word? Like it is in previous Windows versions.
>
> Willy

In MS Word 2003 on my Vista computer, Contol-space works to turn off
Italics/Bold/Underline in several combinations (I didn't test all seven).

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You can always modify the registry to make sure that it switched the way you
like it

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> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:13:04 +0100, Willy wrote:
>
>> "Charles W Davis" <> wrote in message
>> news:9E93AB5D-8B23-4B5D-B9E5-...
>>>
>>> The Windows Vista keyboard short cuts are discussed at length:
>>> http://forums.techarena.in/tips-tweaks/721773.htm
>>> Good luck!
>>
>> Could you point me to the part of this discussion that provides an answer
>> to
>> my question? That is, what I can do in Vista to make Ctrl-Space available
>> again to other programs, like Word? Like it is in previous Windows
>> versions.
>>
>> Willy
>
> In MS Word 2003 on my Vista computer, Contol-space works to turn off
> Italics/Bold/Underline in several combinations (I didn't test all seven).
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:53:00 +0200, James Matthews wrote:

> You can always modify the registry to make sure that it switched the way you
> like it

I'm not the OP. I didn't even know about control-space until I read this
thread, and I did nothing to change the behavior of Word (which is newly
installed under the 2-user license on this new computer). Nor do I care
either way, truth be told, since I'm not that heavy a user.

I posted what I did in order to encourage the OP to check *his*
settings...In other words, I was trying to be helpful :-)

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