SubJeff on 11/10/2011 at 16:52
WTF?
Seriously?
I can turn sub and superscript on (CTRL+= / CTRL+Shift+=) but why can't I turn the damn thing off? I'm working on a presentation for work and it's giving me a real headache.
I've googled it and MS say that those shortcuts turns the sub/superscript on and OFF. But it doesn't! I have to faff about to get them off. WTF? Is there no shortcut to just "normalise" text? Well MS says there is (on the support site) but that doesn't work either.
DAMN YOU MICROSOFT, DAMN YOU TO HELL :mad:
Al_B on 11/10/2011 at 17:06
Those are definitely the default shortcut keys and they work for me (strictly speaking, superscript is Ctrl+Shift++ since shift is pressed) and they toggle correctly.
Have you tried testing a different keyboard shortcut for them? Click the round office button, "Word Options", Choose "Customise" from the list, press the Keyboard shortcuts "Customise" button, Choose the "Home Tab" category and select the Subscript or Superscript command. That should show you the current assignment and allow you to choose a different one.
SubJeff on 11/10/2011 at 18:20
Works in Word, but searches show that it's borked in Powerpoint. You have to use right click, font and unselect the check box.
Al_B on 11/10/2011 at 23:53
Quote Posted by "Subjective Effect;2093569"
DAMN YOU MICROSOFT, DAMN YOU TO HELL :mad:
I now second this opinion and tonight has been a good exercise in humility. At first I thought the problem must be a simple mistake since that key combination works fine in Word without noticing that you were creating a presentation and
might be using PowerPoint (oops, sorry).
After I realised that - the solution was obvious. Even if the key combination was broken, just write a quick macro to reset the super / sub script font settings for the current selection and bind it to an appropriate keyboard shortcut. I was wrong.
Unfortunately, PowerPoint 2007 doesn't allow you to customise keyboard shortcuts without using third party add-ins (all of which appeared to cost money). After a bit of swearing, writing keyboard hooks and creating an add-in I've come up with something that might help although it's not perfect. The biggest problem is that there doesn't appear to be a way in PowerPoint to simply remove the current super / subscript setting without having some text selected. The upshot is that although the following solution will work it will add an extra space character that you'll have to go back and delete.
To give it a shot - download (
www.binarydrift.com/PowerPoint/RemoveSubSuper.ppam) this plugin and save it in a convenient directory. If you're wary (or interested) about the source code then get it (
www.binarydrift.com/PowerPoint/RemoveSubSuper.pptm) from here.
After you've saved the plugin, click the round office button and choose "PowerPoint Options". Select "Add-Ins" and change the Manage: combo-box from "COM..." to "PowerPoint Add-ins" and press the "Go" button. Select "Add New" and choose the RemoveSubSuper.ppam from the locaiton you saved earlier. Press Close until you return to the presentation.
To use it, press ctrl + - to remove any active sub and superscript font style. As I said above it will add an extra space character but hopefully it will save you some time anyway.
As is usual with this sort of thing, it may have problems on your computer. If it microwaves your cat, nukes the planet from orbit and / or results in you getting fired from work I am not responsible.
