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Alt + Click foolishness
I have just learned that after years of pressing the Alt key while dragging
table borders I have to come up with a new way of doing that because the Research box pops up now, and that there does not seem to be a way of getting rid of that. I realize there is no way to change it or to prevent it from being installed or anything other than accept the very, very poor decision to change Word in this way. They truly do not know what other departments are doing there, do they? Anyhow, is there an alternative? I have read about various combinations of keys and right click or whatever, but I can't find anything that works without bringing up that accursed box. I'm using Word 2003. |
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Alt + Click foolishness
The Alt+Click shortcut for the research pane is non-configurable. It does,
however, not stop you using Alt to precisely drag. Press Alt and press *and hold* the mouse button and you can carry on as before. -- Enjoy, Tony "BruceM" wrote in message ... I have just learned that after years of pressing the Alt key while dragging table borders I have to come up with a new way of doing that because the Research box pops up now, and that there does not seem to be a way of getting rid of that. I realize there is no way to change it or to prevent it from being installed or anything other than accept the very, very poor decision to change Word in this way. They truly do not know what other departments are doing there, do they? Anyhow, is there an alternative? I have read about various combinations of keys and right click or whatever, but I can't find anything that works without bringing up that accursed box. I'm using Word 2003. |
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Alt + Click foolishness
For me, it is still working fine. Using Office 2003 and Research is
installed. After reading your post i tried it and it works fine. Maybe while selecting and dragging you mistakly click on Words. "BruceM" wrote: I have just learned that after years of pressing the Alt key while dragging table borders I have to come up with a new way of doing that because the Research box pops up now, and that there does not seem to be a way of getting rid of that. I realize there is no way to change it or to prevent it from being installed or anything other than accept the very, very poor decision to change Word in this way. They truly do not know what other departments are doing there, do they? Anyhow, is there an alternative? I have read about various combinations of keys and right click or whatever, but I can't find anything that works without bringing up that accursed box. I'm using Word 2003. |
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Alt + Click foolishness
Sometimes it seems to work OK. I think I need to hold the mouse button
down, and then release it before I release the Alt button, or something. It's mostly an annoyance, like the Help column popping up each time I open Word, or that Help looks online first, and that I don't seem to have a way to change either of those behaviors. As is so often the case the problem is not the features, but their intrusiveness. "RajKohli" wrote in message ... For me, it is still working fine. Using Office 2003 and Research is installed. After reading your post i tried it and it works fine. Maybe while selecting and dragging you mistakly click on Words. "BruceM" wrote: I have just learned that after years of pressing the Alt key while dragging table borders I have to come up with a new way of doing that because the Research box pops up now, and that there does not seem to be a way of getting rid of that. I realize there is no way to change it or to prevent it from being installed or anything other than accept the very, very poor decision to change Word in this way. They truly do not know what other departments are doing there, do they? Anyhow, is there an alternative? I have read about various combinations of keys and right click or whatever, but I can't find anything that works without bringing up that accursed box. I'm using Word 2003. |
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