This morning Lucy asks me, "Dad, Ctrl+b doesn't work for me, to highlight text in Word, there is Ctrl+n". What? Just always Ctrl+b(old), you must have messed something up, look in the help to fix it... That's the end of our online communication.
After a couple of hours, I'm typing something in Word and after selecting the text and clicking Ctrl+B... nothing, then Ctrl+b, and nothing... and again... Then my morning conversation pops up and lo and behold, I have a new keyboard shortcut "CTRL+N" on the "B" button in the menu, grrrr, Redmonders are at it again ;o)
After a bit of searching I find how to change it to the standard, i.e. the decades-old keyboard shortcut that is everywhere else simply for controlling "bolding" => on/off/bolding/canceling bolding, just a kind of cyclic switch... Ctrl+N, I believe used to be for "new file".
So here's how to change it, so you don't hunt and waste time:
- in MS Word click on "File"
- then on the bottom left click on "Options"
- in the new dialog, in the left vertical menu, select "Customize Ribbon"
- in the displayed settings, click on the "Customize..." button in the bottom center
- in the next dialog box, in the left panel, find "Home Tab"
- then browse the tabs in the right panel for "Bold", with the name sorted abced (a, B, c, ...)
- click in the "Press new shortcut key" box and press your favourite: "Ctrl+b" on your keyboard (or press Ctrl and while holding it, press B
- too, then release both, don't click any plus there, it just writes itself ;o)
- confirm by clicking on the "Assign" button then back off from 5 => by clicking on "Close", "OK", ...
Happy Redmond holidays and lots of extra cranking :-D
JIM ;o)
PS: I translated this article with the help of deepl.com