Stephen Ho
Posted 6 years, 9 months ago
Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago
This is driving me nuts. This is only happening on my PC. It is not happening on my laptop or another PC I have.
Ctrl-Insert is the key combination for Copy in Windows and it works fine for all applications except Word 2003. When I press Ctrl-Insert in Word, it deletes the highlighted selection (in anticipation of a Copy) and inserts a page break. I have tried a number of things:
1. Deleting the Normal.dot file.
2. Copying the Normal.dot file from my laptop (Ctrl-Insert is working fine on the laptop)
3. Went into Tools | Customize | Keyboard and removed the Ctrl-Insert shortcut key assignment.
Nothing works. Ctrl-Insert still inserts a Page Break even though the shortcut has been removed. Obviously there is something somewhere in Word that tells Word to insert a Page Break rather than doing a Copy. But I have not been able to find where. Help please.
Thanks
john tesoriero
Posted 6 years, 9 months ago
Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago
Re: Ctrl-Insert in Word 2003
Stephen,
You will have no trouble if you use Ctrl C instead of Ctrl Insert. By the way, Ctrl X will give you a Cut and Ctrl V will give you a Paste.
Cheers
Stephen Ho
Posted 6 years, 9 months ago
Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago
Re: Ctrl-Insert in Word 2003
Stephen,
Thanks. I am aware Ctrl-C is an alternative to Ctrl-Insert. Just that I have been using Ctrl-Insert (and Shift-Delete, Shift-Insert) for so long that I rather find a solution to the problem than change my habit.
Dick Tracy
Posted 6 years, 9 months ago
Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago
Re: Ctrl-Insert in Word 2003
Stephen,
Even when I was presented with a PC at work in about 1990, the copy command was always Ctrl-C. The idea of using the keyboard shortcuts is so that you don't have to leave it and pick up your mouse.
With that in mind, and looking at normal typing, Ctrl-C is much easier to execute, even with one hand, than Ctrl-ins.
Cheers
Daniel F
Posted 6 years, 9 months ago
Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago
Re: Ctrl-Insert in Word 2003
Stephen,
I can commiserate with you. Having started with Windows 1.0 (in the 80's) when Ctrl-Ins/Shift-Ins etc were the (more intuitive) specified shortcuts for copy/paste etc, I've had a hard time recently changing to the non-obvious Ctrl-C/V etc introduced about Windows 2 or 3.
Unfortunately, although most application writers have maintained compatibility with the original shortcuts for a LONG time, some are now starting to drop that backwards-compatibility, so we are FORCED to use the new 'official' shortcuts rather than the intuitive (but obsolete) ones we grew up with.
Regards,
Daniel
Florian F
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Joined: N/A
6 years later, it is still a fight to have ctrl-ins and shift-ins working in the applications.
Using the mouse with the left hand, it is much more convinient to copy/paste with the right hand, which is with ctrl-ins and shift-ins.
