Resetting Your Keyboard Back To Its Original Settings

 Resetting Your Keyboard Back To Its Original Settings


Scenario: 

This will help whether you are at work or at home. So you sit down at a work station and when you use a standard shortcut key such as Control R (align right) and it gives you something else other than what was expected. So in this case instead of aligning a piece of text to the extreme right of the screen, it pastes in a signature block.  Think about this carefully.  Can you appreciate the damage that can be done to a document if that key combination that you thought Bolds a piece of text instead is a macro that strips out all hard returns?

Most of the time this is due to people doing a Macro and using a standard shortcut key combination to activate their macro. 

When doing Macros, you really want to use a key combination that does not "interfere" with the existing well known short cut key combinations.  We also have the option of using a Button to bring forth the Macro that does not interfere with your keyboard.  When we use the button method, MS word places the button on your Quick Access Toolbar for ease of use.

Nevertheless, in some cases you end up in a situation where the PC is not operating in a recognizable fashion due to someone re-assigning a bunch of well known short-cut keys to other macro procedures. The question becomes how do we set the keyboard back to the original settings so the PC reacts in a way we are used to.

  1. Display the Word Options dialog box. (In Word 2007 click the Office button and then click Word Options. In Word 2010-and above display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.

  1. At the left of the dialog box click Customize.

Click the Customize button (Word 2007) or the Customize Ribbon button (Word 2010-and above). 

  1. Word displays the Customize Keyboard dialog box. 

Click on the Reset All button. (NOTE: This button will only be available if you've previously made customizations to the keyboard shortcuts.) 

  1. Word displays a dialog box asking if you want to remove all your shortcut key definitions.  Click on Yes. Word removes all the user-defined shortcut keys, returning them to their default condition.

  1. Click on Close to back out of the Customize Keyboard dialog box.

  1. Click on Cancel to back out of the Word Options dialog box.

* It should be noted that in smaller firms, multiple people using the same workstation can experience the above. You may wish to relegate one particular workstation that makes use of the unorthodox keyboard shortcuts so you don't affect other users. 

The question in larger firms that make use of individual log-ins, results in individual desktops (images), that appear on the screen as a result of a particular log-in is how the workstation will  react to the changing of keyboard shortcuts. Meaning, your keyboard shortcuts will only affect you and no one else whether you keep them in place or reset your keyboard.

It should also be considered that depending on how the firm sets up their system, if one user changes his/her keyboard shortcuts and then logs out, the new user who logs in may not experience those changes. But the opposite can be true as well meaning someone logs in, changes some of the generic keyboard shortcuts which take effect on the local hard drive of that particular workstation and are then experienced by the next user to log in at that particular workstation.

The next time you use a short cut key and you receive a something totally unexpected instead, you will now know how to restore your keyboard back to its recognizable form.

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