does anyone know the shortcut to change the text color on Word 2011 on a Mac?
I would like to ideally select a part of the text, press a key combination, and change the color of the text to the color in the Font toolbar.
14 Answers
Although it's not exactly what you want it can set the text colour to the automatic colour of microsoft word. It's a small applescript code.
tell application "Microsoft Word" tell active window set color index of font object of text object of selection to auto end tell
end tellOpen up Applescript Editor and save it to ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Word Script Menu Items as what ever you want then open up System Preferences.
In System Preferences go to Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts The press the + sign at under the list of shortcuts. Next select Microsoft word from the application drop down. For the Menu item name it exactly what you called your script minus the extension. Finally choose a shortcut and enjoy.
Tools >> Customize Keyboard >> Categorize (choose format) >> Commands (find Font Color) >> Fill the shortcut bar with any command that you wish (e.g. Command + R) >> Click OK
1There is a relatively easy way to do this
- open word in mac
- Go to TOOLS
- Go to CUSTOMIZE KEYBOAD
- In the CUSTOMIZE box - Go to ALL COMMANDS
- In the COMMANDS box - Go to COLOR
- Choose the colour you want (Start with RED for this example)
- In the PRESS NEW KEYBOARD SHORT CUT space - hit + + r
- Click ASSIGN key 9 Then press OK you can do all the changes before pressing the OK key
To answer ckb's question on how to customize the color, here is a link that I found can do the trick:
Basically, you need to add a Macro and then assign a shortcut to it. Here is the code I am using:
Sub FigTab()
'
' YourNewMarco
' MakeTextYellow
' Selection.Font.Color = RGB(196, 89, 17)
End SubI assigned the shortcut "cmd + Shift + F" to it.
