Ctrl-Shift-Space Doesn't Work Any More   

I saw a posting on this subject recently, but now I can't find it.

A lady I work with recently installed a new scanner. Now, Ctrl-Shift-Space 
opens the scanner application instead of giving her a nonbreaking space.

She and I tried to customize her keyboard and reassign that key combination 
to the nonbreaking space, but we couldn't find a command for nonbreaking 
space under the Edit, Insert, or Format lists. We tried to set her 
Autocorrect Options to change three spaces (something she'd never use) to a 
nonbreaking space, but it wouldn't ever activate the Add control with only 
spaces in the fields.

What's the workaround to get her nonbreaking spaces back again?

Thanks for the help.

Fred

date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:40:09 -0700   author:   Idaho Word Man

Re: Ctrl-Shift-Space Doesn't Work Any More   

Idaho Word Man wrote:
> I saw a posting on this subject recently, but now I can't find it.
>
> A lady I work with recently installed a new scanner. Now,
> Ctrl-Shift-Space opens the scanner application instead of giving her
> a nonbreaking space.
>
> She and I tried to customize her keyboard and reassign that key
> combination to the nonbreaking space, but we couldn't find a command
> for nonbreaking space under the Edit, Insert, or Format lists. We
> tried to set her Autocorrect Options to change three spaces
> (something she'd never use) to a nonbreaking space, but it wouldn't
> ever activate the Add control with only spaces in the fields.
>
> What's the workaround to get her nonbreaking spaces back again?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Fred

You were so close... In the Customize Keyboard dialog, set the category to 
Common Symbols (the last one in the list). The nonbreaking space is in 
right-hand list, between the Registered symbol and the Paragraph symbol.

-- 
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP        FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:20:35 -0400   author:   Jay Freedman

Re: Ctrl-Shift-Space Doesn't Work Any More   

But that will almost certainly not help if another application has hijacked 
the shortcut "upstream," as it were (I tend to keep forgetting that if I 
have the player for my digital voice recorder paused and use F4 for Repeat 
in Word, it instead starts up the player again). Instead, it will be 
necessary to either assign a different combination to the nonbreaking space 
or see if it's possible to assign a different shortcut in the scanner 
software.

-- 
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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> Idaho Word Man wrote:
>> I saw a posting on this subject recently, but now I can't find it.
>>
>> A lady I work with recently installed a new scanner. Now,
>> Ctrl-Shift-Space opens the scanner application instead of giving her
>> a nonbreaking space.
>>
>> She and I tried to customize her keyboard and reassign that key
>> combination to the nonbreaking space, but we couldn't find a command
>> for nonbreaking space under the Edit, Insert, or Format lists. We
>> tried to set her Autocorrect Options to change three spaces
>> (something she'd never use) to a nonbreaking space, but it wouldn't
>> ever activate the Add control with only spaces in the fields.
>>
>> What's the workaround to get her nonbreaking spaces back again?
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>> Fred
>
> You were so close... In the Customize Keyboard dialog, set the category to 
> Common Symbols (the last one in the list). The nonbreaking space is in 
> right-hand list, between the Registered symbol and the Paragraph symbol.
>
> -- 
> 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.
>
>

date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:29:12 -0500   author:   Suzanne S. Barnhill