#Create shortcut keys for mac how to

Cancel out and start again.)Д§.Check if you can modify the Normal.dotm. (If Word prompts you for a file name, you did not open the file correctly and you now have a copy that is not a template. If you open the Normal.dotm correctly, you will see the below picture.Дў.Close all other documents (this is important.if you don't, Word holds a hidden instance of the old version open).Д¤.Add and remove a space from the text (to force Word to save the document)ДҐ.Save the Normal template. Don't try it from the Finder or you will make a copy of NormalД®ach time.).

Step3: 1.Open the Normal.dotm template (Note: You MUST navigate to the Normal template using the File menu in Word, and choose 'Open'. Step2: Does the Bob JonesвЂ™s suggestion(Move the Normal.dotm to the Desktop but donвЂ™t move back, let the Word generate a new Normal.dotm) worked? If it doesnвЂ™t work, please go to step3 and step4. Then you can check if the issue persists. In this way you can exclude the impact of third-party add-ins.

Step1: Open you Word with safe mode refer to So I think there may be some unknown problem with your Normal.dotm. I hope Microsoft is listening! I have been a more-or-less happy word user for years, but now I am fighting with every new document I open to just get my work done.

moving the Normal.dotm to the desktop, closing out word, and then moving it back.

uninstalling word 2016 and reinstalling it.

making sure OS and Word 2016 are updated.

I have tried the solutions posted in the discussion boards:

#Create shortcut keys for mac how to

How to introduce shortcut key commands into the normal template and how to keep the template as I have modified it. In a separate thread I have asked about how to manage the known problem of not being able to open the Normal (global) template. Now the normal.dotm does not keep the commands and each time I open a new document I have to assign these shortcut commands again (and Until I upgraded my os to high sierra 10.13.1 I was able to save shortcut keycommands in the normal document template. Friends I'm asking again because I desperately need to save time.