TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
Subject:RE: Styles on Right Mouse Button From:Emru Townsend <etownsen -at- Softimage -dot- com> To:"'techwrl'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 25 Nov 1999 16:13:10 -0500
By an astonishing coincidence, I answered this exact same question on
another mailing list within the last 12 hours. Here's a cut-'n'-paste from
that message:
Here's how to do it in Word 97 for Windows.
Note that styles must not only be defined but must have been in use at some
point in the document for this to work.
1. From the menu, choose the Tools > Customize command.
2. In the Toolbars tab, check the Shortcut Menus toolbar. The Shortcut
Menus toolbar appears.
3. In the Shortcut Menus toolbar, click Text, and from the drop-down menu
that appears, click Text. (These options determine the shortcut menus that
will appear when you right-click in certain places. For instance, you
could specify that a certain command only appears when you right-click in a
table cell.)
4. The drop-down menu will stay in place. In the Customize dialog box,
select the Commands tab, and choose New Menu (under Categories). In the
Command section to the right, the New Menu command appears.
5. Drag the New Menu command to the drop-down menu, then right-click on the
New Menu command to rename it to something like "Styles".
6. In the Customize dialog box, select the Commands tab, and choose Styles
(under Categories). In the Command section to the right, a list of
available styles appears.
7. Drag the styles you want to use from the Command section to the new menu
you've created, one at a time.
8. To modify the text of the toolbar button (by default, they all have the
word "Style" at the end), right-click the button and choose the Name
command.
9. Repeat steps 4 through 8 for as many context menus as you need. When
you're finished, click Close in the Customize dialog box.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wallace stokes [mailto:eirdr -at- hotmail -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 4:11 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Styles on Right Mouse Button
>
>
> Some time ago, a learned colleague posted a method to assign a style
> selection (menu?) to the right mouse button. I've lost those
> instruction
> but I would like to try the procedure Using Word 2000. I'd very much
> appreciate it if someone would re-post the instructions.
