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Speeding up the Font Display Pull down (Introduction)

Normally, when you select a font with the font display pull down, Microsoft Word shows examples of the fonts in the pull down menu.

While this can prove to be extremely convenient if you're just not sure of the right font to use, this feature does take extra processing time.

If you change fonts frequently and find this display too slow, there's a way to have Word stop this.

  • From the Tools menu select Customise.

  • Select the Options tab.

  • Under the Other section, uncheck List font names in their fonts.

  • Click Close.

Show the Function Keys as a toolbar (Advanced)

  1. From the Tools menu select Macros4Visual Basic Editor

  2. From the Insert menu select Module.

  3. Type the following

Sub ShowMeFunctionKeys()

Commandbars("Function Key Display").Visible = True

End Sub

'The following macro would toggle this display:

Sub ToggleFunctionKeysDisplay()

With Commandbars("Function Key Display").Visible = Not.Visible

End With

End Sub

  1. Attach the ShowMeFunctionKeys macro to the toolbar and run the Macro.

The following toolbar is displayed.

  1. Hold down the Shift key or Ctrl  or Ctrl Shift and notice the toolbar buttons changes.

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