Check to see whether your preferred keyboard shortcut has been assigned to another feature. I pressed Alt P, which is an easy combination to remember. Click to position the cursor in the Press new shortcut key box (below the Commands box) and simply press the keys you want to use as your keyboard shortcut for the Print dialog. There are a number of similarly named commands, so depending on the circumstances, the description can help you to determine if you’ve selected the correct command. TIP: When you click a command, a description of the command appears at the lower left side of the Customize Keyboard dialog. Then scroll through the Commands box at right and click to select / highlight FilePrint. Instead of choosing File Tab in the Categories box, scroll down and click Commands Not in the Ribbon (or, alternatively, All Commands). But if you click to select the File Tab category and then scroll through the command list at right, you won’t find it.ĥ. You might think the logical place to look for the FilePrint command would be the File tab. For this exercise, we will be looking for a command called FilePrint. Also, keep in mind that a particular command isn’t always listed under the category where you would expect to find it.Ĥ. So if you can’t find a command right away, try to think of alternate names for the command. For example, under the Insert category, the command to insert a page break is labeled InsertNewPage – not the seemingly more logical InsertPageBreak. Command names often bear little resemblance to the way people commonly refer to features. TIP: Perhaps the most difficult aspect of assigning a keyboard shortcut to a feature is figuring out Microsoft’s command-naming conventions. For instance, if you click “File Tab,” the Commands box will show only the commands/features that are available from the File tab.
The Categories box at the left side of the dialog lists all of the permanent and contextual tabs available in Word, as well as “All Commands,” “Macros,” “Fonts,” “Building Blocks,” “Styles,” and “Common Symbols.” Clicking a particular category determines which commands display in the Commands box at the right side of the dialog. Below the command box at the left side of the dialog, you’ll see the words “ Keyboard shortcuts:” and a button labeled “ Customize…” Click the button. When the Word Options dialog opens, navigate to the left-most column and click to select the Customize Ribbon category.ģ. Click the File tab, then click Options.Ģ. Here are the specific steps for choosing a keyboard shortcut that will open the legacy Print dialog:ġ. In this post, we’ll create a keyboard shortcut to launch the old-style Print dialog. In the previous post, we created a macro to open the old Print dialog - the familiar small one from previous versions, rather than the full-screen “Print Preview and Print” feature introduced in Word 2010 - and then added the macro to the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT).
Set up a keyboard shortcut to open the legacy Print dialog in Word 2010
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