Vista - Reclaim Ctrl-Space in Vista?

Ctrl-Space is one of the most frequently used keys in Word 2003 as it
changes back from for example bold or italic to normal character formatting.

However, Vista has somehow claimed this key for other purposes and even
after a lot of searching I haven't found a way to reclaim it.

Is this at all possible?

Willy

"Willy" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:gnklas$2shn$1@xxxxxxCtrl+B bold
Ctrl+B again unbold
Ctrl+I italic
Ctrl+I again unitalic
Ctrl+U underscore
Ctrl+U again remove underscore.

Has always worked, and still does.
Take a while here:
http://office.microsoft.com/training...CH102247601033

---- Original Message -----
From: "Charles W Davis" <newsgroup@xxxxxx>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 2:06 AM
Subject: Re: Reclaim Ctrl-Space in Vista?>

Hi Charles,

I'm sure your intentions are the very best, but since I'm asking how to
reclaim Ctrl-Space that _might_ just be because I wonder if it is possible
to reclaim Ctrl-Space. And since this is a Vista group and not a Word group
that just _might_ be my conscious choice because I had a Vista question and
not a Word question. :-)

We all have our different ways of working with Word and other software and
fortunately there are several ways to turn off character formatting. So the
problem here isn't that I'm stuck with bold formatting and have no clue
about how to turn it off. The problem is Vista's behaviour, which is
different from earlier Windows versions.

I'm not only a professional writer, I teach others advanced ways of using
Word, including VBA programming. Of course there was no way to know that
from my message, so again, thanks for your willingness to help.

Willy

"Willy" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:gnmkej$2ock$1@xxxxxxThe Windows Vista keyboard short cuts are discussed at length:
http://forums.techarena.in/tips-tweaks/721773.htm
Good luck!

"Charles W Davis" <newsgroup@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9E93AB5D-8B23-4B5D-B9E5-949D62C6749C@xxxxxxCould you point me to the part of this discussion that provides an answer to
my question? That is, what I can do in Vista to make Ctrl-Space available
again to other programs, like Word? Like it is in previous Windows versions.

Willy

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:13:04 +0100, Willy wrote:
In MS Word 2003 on my Vista computer, Contol-space works to turn off
Italics/Bold/Underline in several combinations (I didn't test all seven).

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You can always modify the registry to make sure that it switched the way you
like it

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"Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:53:00 +0200, James Matthews wrote:
I'm not the OP. I didn't even know about control-space until I read this
thread, and I did nothing to change the behavior of Word (which is newly
installed under the 2-user license on this new computer). Nor do I care
either way, truth be told, since I'm not that heavy a user.

I posted what I did in order to encourage the OP to check *his*
settings...In other words, I was trying to be helpful :-)

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"James Matthews" <jamesmatt18@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2D93AB45-1AB1-461A-AF7C-A2812424B37B@xxxxxxAh, finally some specific advice to solve the problem - but in a very
unspecific way.

This is as if I was looking for a very special spare part for a veteran car,
and you said "You can always go to the UK and buy it."

In other words, details please. I suppose you have them since you know this
can be dealt with in the registry? Hope so!

Willy