Vista - Keyboard shortcuts

why is it that vista doesnt open the microsoft word program when i press
CTRL+ALT+W (i have put 'W' ) as shortcut while it opens fine for Microsoft
Excel as 'CTRL+ALT+X'? other shortcuts also doesnt work for other programs.

Hi Forrest,

Not sure why it is not working for you. You might take a look through the steps in this tutorial to see if you may be overlooking something in setting up the keyboard shortcut for the program shortcut.

Keyboard Shortcut

Shawn

Hi, Forrest.

One quirk of Vista (and WinXP) that bugs me is that the shortcut keys often
don't work on icons in Quick Launch, even though the same shortcut works on
the same icon on the Desktop. So I create the icon on the Desktop, set the
shortcut key in its Properties, then drag it to QL. Sometimes this works;
sometimes I have to leave a copy of the icon on the Desktop, in addition to
the one in QL.

Do you have an Excel icon on your Desktop? A Word icon?

I've not explored this thoroughly - and I'm not sure this aspect is covered
in the Tutorial. But this behavior has frustrated me several times.

UPDATE: This prompted me to explore further and I learned something (I
think I did; only time will confirm that.)

Quicken is one of my most-used programs, so I use Ctrl+Alt+Q for its
shortcut, plus it's in my Quick Launch. It's the 3rd item in my QL bar, so
I usually start it with <Win>+3, and seldom use the shortcut key. When I
tried it just now, it didn't work. I dragged the icon from QL to the
Desktop; still didn't work. Deleted the shortcut key from its Properties,
Applied, recreated and Applied - still didn't work. Then I went to Start |
All Programs | Quicken 2008 to open the Quicken folder, then right-clicked
on the executable and set the shortcut key in Properties there (had to
furnish Administrator credentials at this point). And it works!

I guess the short version of this lesson is that it matters HOW you set the
shortcut key!

RC
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