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From: Rick on 11 May 2010 10:09
Can someone confirm: in Word 2003 I used to ensure that text was left-
aligned by selecting it and pressing Ctrl-L. Now in Word 2007 if text
is already left-aligned, then when I press Ctrl-L it then formats the
text to full justification. I'm not sure that I like Ctrl-L acting as
a toggle since it assumes that you already know what kind of alignment
you have before pressing it!
From: Stefan Blom on 11 May 2010 10:30
I can confirm your observation. In Word 2007, Ctrl+L (assigned to the LeftPara
command) toggles between left- aligned and justified.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Rick" <rick0726(a)verizon.net> wrote in message
news:d40393c5-221b-4a65-b14a-bcf2feffc925(a)i31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com...
> Can someone confirm: in Word 2003 I used to ensure that text was left-
> aligned by selecting it and pressing Ctrl-L. Now in Word 2007 if text
> is already left-aligned, then when I press Ctrl-L it then formats the
> text to full justification. I'm not sure that I like Ctrl-L acting as
> a toggle since it assumes that you already know what kind of alignment
> you have before pressing it!




From: Jay Freedman on 11 May 2010 10:38
Rick,

I can confirm that this is a change in behavior -- although not something I
noticed until you mentioned it. I don't like it, either.

Fortunately, there's a simple fix:

- Press Alt+F8 to open the Macros dialog.
- Set the "Macros in" dropdown to "Word commands".
- Select the LeftPara command in the list.
- Change the "Macros in" dropdown to "Normal.dotm (global template)".
- Click the Create button.
- When the macro editor window appears, just close it.
- The next time you exit from Word, if you're asked whether to save changes
in Normal.dotm, say yes.

This creates a macro that runs when you press Ctrl+L or click the
left-alignment button on the ribbon, and the macro unconditionally sets the
alignment to Left without toggling.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Rick wrote:
> Can someone confirm: in Word 2003 I used to ensure that text was left-
> aligned by selecting it and pressing Ctrl-L. Now in Word 2007 if text
> is already left-aligned, then when I press Ctrl-L it then formats the
> text to full justification. I'm not sure that I like Ctrl-L acting as
> a toggle since it assumes that you already know what kind of alignment
> you have before pressing it!


From: Rick on 11 May 2010 11:28
Yup, that does it. Thanks much.

So you don't have to specify Ctrl-L as the 'trigger key' for this
macro? It just automatically redirects any press of Ctrl-L from what
it is by default to this macro instead.

Excellent.

On May 11, 10:38 am, "Jay Freedman" <jay.freed...(a)verizon.net> wrote:
> Rick,
>
> I can confirm that this is a change in behavior -- although not something I
> noticed until you mentioned it. I don't like it, either.
>
> Fortunately, there's a simple fix:
>
> - Press Alt+F8 to open the Macros dialog.
> - Set the "Macros in" dropdown to "Word commands".
> - Select the LeftPara command in the list.
> - Change the "Macros in" dropdown to "Normal.dotm (global template)".
> - Click the Create button.
> - When the macro editor window appears, just close it.
> - The next time you exit from Word, if you're asked whether to save changes
> in Normal.dotm, say yes.
>
> This creates a macro that runs when you press Ctrl+L or click the
> left-alignment button on the ribbon, and the macro unconditionally sets the
> alignment to Left without toggling.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP        FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
> all may benefit.
>
>
>
> Rick wrote:
> > Can someone confirm: in Word 2003 I used to ensure that text was left-
> > aligned by selecting it and pressing Ctrl-L.  Now in Word 2007 if text
> > is already left-aligned, then when I press Ctrl-L it then formats the
> > text to full justification.  I'm not sure that I like Ctrl-L acting as
> > a toggle since it assumes that you already know what kind of alignment
> > you have before pressing it!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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