{"id":6429,"date":"2022-11-03T11:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T17:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/?p=6429"},"modified":"2022-11-11T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T18:25:24","slug":"listing-keyboard-shortcuts-two-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/listing-keyboard-shortcuts-two-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Listing Keyboard Shortcuts: Two Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>By Jack Lyon, the Editorium<\/h3>\n<p>As useful as custom keyboard shortcuts may be in using Microsoft Word, it's sometimes difficult to remember which keys you've assigned to what function. Word itself includes one way to find out:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Click File &gt; Print.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Under &quot;Settings,&quot; select &quot;Key Assignments: List of your custom shortcut keys&quot;:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/editorium.com\/sendy\/uploads\/1667588125.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"img\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Select the printer you want to use.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Click the big &quot;Print&quot; button at the top left.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You'll get a document with entries that look something like this:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/editorium.com\/sendy\/uploads\/1667588583.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"img\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As useful as that might be, it's kind of a mess to read. Microsoft could have done a much better job of formatting.<\/p>\n<p>As an alternative, you can list all of your custom keyboard shortcuts with this handy macro:<\/p>\n<pre><code>Sub ListKeyAssignments() \nDim kbLoop As KeyBinding\nDim aTemp As template\nFor Each aTemp In Templates\n    If LCase(aTemp.Name) = &quot;Normal.dotm&quot; Then &#039;You can also use the name of a different template here.\n        CustomizationContext = aTemp\n        For Each kbLoop In KeyBindings\n            selection.InsertAfter kbLoop.Command &amp; vbTab &amp; kbLoop.KeyString &amp; vbCr\n            selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd\n        Next kbLoop\n    End If\nNext aTemp\nEnd Sub<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>You may already know how to add such macros to Word, but if not, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtoolsforwriters.com\/how-to-add-a-macro-to-word\/\">here's how<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtoolsforwriters.com\/how-to-run-a-macro-in-word\/\">learn here how to run it<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Now, create a new document and run the macro. You should get results like this in your new document:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/editorium.com\/sendy\/uploads\/1667588172.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"img\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Much easier to read, don't you think?<\/p>\n<p>After you've created a list of your custom keyboard shortcuts, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/customize-keyboard-shortcuts-9a92343e-a781-4d5a-92f1-0f32e3ba5b4d\">change them or create new ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this helps you turn your computer into the lean, mean editing machine it was always meant to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/listing-keyboard-shortcuts-two-methods\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Listing Keyboard Shortcuts: Two Methods\"><p>By Jack Lyon, the Editorium As useful as custom keyboard shortcuts may be in using Microsoft Word, it&#8217;s sometimes difficult to remember which keys you&#8217;ve assigned to what function. Word itself includes one way to find out: Click File &gt; Print. Under &quot;Settings,&quot; select &quot;Key Assignments: List of your custom shortcut keys&quot;: Select the printer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[175,409,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editing-tools-editorial-matters","7":"category-lyonizing-word","8":"category-macros","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gfno-1FH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}