“Just go to the ‘ Customize Keyboard’ dialog box, find the ‘ Find Next’ command and assign command-G to it.” Right.įirst of all, good luck finding “ Find Next” in the list of commands in the “ Customize Keyboard” dialog box. use command-G as a shortcut for “ Find Next.” So you have to customize Word just to make it behave the normal way, i.e. Microsoft has decided that command-G shortcut should be assigned to “ Go To…,” and they won’t ever change their minds.
In Word 2008, as in previous versions of Word, the command-G shortcut is assigned to the “ Go To…” command, which is marginally useful sometimes when browsing a large document, but is of course not used nearly as often as “ Find Next” is: Rather than bringing up the “ Find/Replace” dialog box again, normally you can just hit command-G to find the next occurrence of the current search string. But then you need to continue to search for other occurrences of the same search string. Then you need to exit the “ Find/Replace” dialog box to do some editing around a found occurrence. You enter your search request in the appropriate field and you start your search. The standard behaviour in word processors and text editors for the Mac is the following.įirst, you bring up the “ Find/Replace” dialog box by pressing command-F.
the way that every other Mac OS X application does it, which of course Word is incapable of doing on its own.Ĭase in point: a keyboard shortcut for the “ Find Next” command. Inevitably, this process involves customizing Word, not to make it do things your way, but simply to make it do things the normal way, i.e. Yet I have no choice but to use it sometimes, and in such situations I need to try and reduce the mental pain as much as possible.
Word 2008 is so bad that it is driving me positively nuts.
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