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Since a couple of days ago each time I press Ctrl-Home in Word 2003 instead of going to the top of the document I got the Go To dialog. I tried a lot of things but I didn't find the way to go back to the 'classical' command.
Any help will be appreciated
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I tried, but to no avail. I also tried to replace the normal.dot file by the normal.dot file used in my notebook because I'm not having this problem when I use the notebook. But it didn't work either.
Try is not do. If you didn't delete the normal.dot file and run Word, I'm not sure what you've done.
Best of luck,
Bob
Find out if the problem is limited to Word, MS Office or still wider (in principle, it could even be a keyboard problem, with the Home-key thinking it's a G; that's easy to check if you have another one around).
Ctrl-home goes to the top of the window I'm typing this in (ctrl-G doesn't do anything). Same for Notepad. Same for Excel (cell A1 is selected with ctrl-Home, ctrl-G gives Goto-dialog). Didn't try Wordpad.
In Word, home goes to the start of the line, while G types a simple G. That's an easy test also.
If the problem is limited to MS Office, try the brute force solution: run the Office Removal Wizard (on the Office CD) and reinstall. If the problem is limited to Word, first try to uninstall and reinstall only MS Word from the Office setup. These aren't very elegant solutions, but most likely they are effective.
Of course, it could be some nasty keyboard remapper having installed itself (or being installed by someone else hating you). Then the above solution obviously won't help.
Let us know how you solve this interesting problem.
Kees
The problem is limited to Microsoft Office and, to be more precise, to Word. In Excel Ctrl-Home works as expected: you go to the top of the document.
When Word works rightly Ctrl-G open the Find and Replace command.
But, at my office, I've got the Find and Replace command when I press Ctrl-G and also when I press Ctrl-Home.
For now I resist the idea of unistalling and installing again. One of the many reasons is that I've had exactly the same problem at home with Office 2000. It's really curious: when I was using Word 2000 I had the problem at home but things were right at my office. I upgraded both system to Office 2003 and now Word works right at home and weirdly at my office !!!
I just had the same problem happen that you described in your thread.
Did you even figure out the solution?
Haradon,
It's Word's Wordperfect-compatibility mode. Must be at least 10 years old, when everybody used WP5.1 and needed a key-compatible version of Word.
Go to Tools>Options>General and uncheck the checkbox for using Wordperfect keys. That's the Word 97 place, anyway, it might be elsewhere in Word 2000 or 2003. Search and you will find.
Hope this helps.
Kees
It's Word's Wordperfect compatibility mode. Must be at least 10 years old, when everybody used WP5.1 and needed a key-compatible version of Word.
Go to Tools>Options>General and uncheck the option to use Wordperfect cursor keys. That's Word 97 anyway, you might have to search around a little bit in later versions.
Hope this helps.
Kees
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