To see them on yours, simply press the Alt key by itself. They will vary depending on the tabs and the QAT. The characters in the black highlight are tooltips that show up after you press the Alt key. The screenshot below shows this on my computer. A slight delay between the Alt and the next character can trigger the Ribbon tooltips. It depends on how fast you get the two together. Thank you!Īlt+1 to Alt+09 can be grabbed by QAT buttons tooltips.

If the issue is simply choosing a different shortcut key combination, I am fine with that but want to make sure that is necessary (and that I don't run into this same issue with a different combination of buttons) before I try to train our organization's 6+ years of muscle memory. as this error starts to affect more users, I'm more motivated to find a solution but I cannot find others with the same issue. I thought maybe Word began using these for other shortcuts but if that was the case, why would they work part-time?ĭoing a search for these shortcut keys to see if other concurrent apps had them reserved, I couldn't identify any programs I have installed that use Alt+1 thru Alt+9 to create a conflict so wondering if anyone else had some light they could shed on the situation. sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. The styles that have the most erratic consistency are the ones that use Alt+1 thru Alt+9. at the time, this issue seemed to only be affecting me so I let it slide as a personal inconvenience but now the error is popping up for other users as well. All our custom shortcut keys worked fine up until 2019 or so when I started noticing that sometimes, some shortcut keys would work and others wouldn't.īut as all the shortcut keys are defined together in the same normal.dotm file, I found this to be super weird. Hi, so since 2015 or so, we have been using custom shortcut keys in our Word template for specific paragraph styles (PC only).

Custom hot keys in word