Dan and I are working together to tech review an upcoming SharePoint 2007 book. We were asked at the last minute and have extremely short deadlines, so we're looking for ways to eek out dribs and drabs of speed during our review process.
To that end, I present you with a quick tutorial on assigning keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Word 2003 (equally applicable to other Office programs).
If you're doing some heavy editing and reviewing, you'll want to turn on change tracking and you'll want to be able to insert comments. Typically, to insert a comment in a document you can do one of three things:
1. Highlight some text, hit Insert, select Comment and type in your comment
2. Turn on the Reviewing toolbar, highlight some text, hit the Insert Comment button on the toolbar
3. Assign a keyboard shortcut, highlight some text, hit the keyboard shortcut.
To assign a new keyboard shortcut, follow these steps:
- Right-click the toolbar and select Customize
- Hit the keyboard button on the Commands tab
- Find Insert...InsertNewComment. Press your new hotkey combo. I picked CTRL+SHFT+Z because I can easily hit this with the hand not on the mouse.
Now you too can insert a comment via a keyboard shortcut. This just feels faster to me.
