I went back in and checked 'Show ScreenTips for toolbar commands' and Cmd-C started working again. Now as I wrote this posting I found out that Cmd-C stopped working again. Once I UNchecked that box the shortcuts started working again (after 'OK' dismissing the window) and the shortcut keys were displayed in the menus.īTW, ' Show shortcut keys in ScreenTips' is checked for me. (That setting is supposed to show what an icon is supposed to do if you hover the mouse-pointer over it.) In the window that appears the Toolbars and Menus 'tab' is displayed (for me).Ĭheck or un-check 'Show ScreenTips for toolbar commands'.

I had flakey results: go to menu View -> Toolbars -> Customize Toolbars and Menus. (In addition, selecting an area and hitting Cmd-C did not display the crawling-ants indication around the selection.) I found the problem using Excel with Office 2011, but it may apply to Word too.)Ĭmd-C, Cmd-V, Cmd-X and maybe others stopped working and the shortcuts weren't displayed in the menu after I was messing around trying to add Paste->Transpose to the tool bar. To find a solution for the problem you're experiencing, visit our community of Word users who can help you.įor more info on spelling and grammar checking, see Spelling and grammar in Word.[Note: I'm using Cmd- the same as Cmd+ as you don't actually type the hyphen or plus, and Cmd is the 'command' keyboard key.

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