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Old 04-11-2016, 08:41 AM
leonardo.abb leonardo.abb is offline Keyboard Symbols with ALT+CTRL don't always work Windows 10 Keyboard Symbols with ALT+CTRL don't always work Office 2013
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I have the problem in word that i'm trying to type some symbols of my keyboard by pressing ALT+CTRL+KEY but not all of them work. In notepad they all work.

I also can't find any assigned keyboard shortcuts to those combinations. I've already delete all the keyboard shortcuts that included ALT+CTRL that I could find.

Is there a way to disable ALL keyboard shortcuts? I do not use them anyway...
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Old 04-11-2016, 05:27 PM
Micromegas Micromegas is offline Keyboard Symbols with ALT+CTRL don't always work Windows 10 Keyboard Symbols with ALT+CTRL don't always work Office 2016
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Notepad and Word are very different programs; keyboard shortcuts are naturally different.

A list of KB shortcuts is available at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/290938.
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Old 04-12-2016, 02:55 AM
leonardo.abb leonardo.abb is offline Keyboard Symbols with ALT+CTRL don't always work Windows 10 Keyboard Symbols with ALT+CTRL don't always work Office 2013
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Notepad and Word are very different programs; keyboard shortcuts are naturally different.

A list of KB shortcuts is available at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/290938.
No, you did not understand my problem.

My keyboard has symbols on it that universally work in any application. By example: CTRL+ALT+2=@

I have many others. The problem is word hass shortcuts assigned to some of those key combinations so when I want to type the symbols it just does something.

I tried manually REMOVING all shortcuts that use CTRL+ALT but by example typing @ still doesnt work. It just does nothing at all.
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Old 04-12-2016, 05:44 AM
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On my keyboards Shift+2 = @.
Ctrl+Alt+2 produces nothing.
That is in any program.
Check with the manufacturer of your keyboard or the company that produced your keyboard shortcuts program to see if it is supposed to work with Word.

There is no built-in way to remove all keyboard shortcuts in Word.

Most external keyboard shortcut programs override Word's settings.
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Ctrl-Alt-2 is not a standard Windows shortcut for anything in an English-language system. If it does something on your system, that's because your keyboard has been programmed for it or it uses a non-an English-language. In an English-language system, Word has its own 27 built-in Ctrl-Alt keyboard shortcuts:
Ctrl-Alt-1 - Apply the Heading 1 style
Ctrl-Alt-2 - Apply the Heading 2 style
Ctrl-Alt-3 - Apply the Heading 2 style
Ctrl-Alt-C - Insert a copyright symbol
Ctrl-Alt-D - Insert an endnote
Ctrl-Alt-F - Insert a footnote
Ctrl-Alt-I - Switch to print preview
Ctrl-Alt-K - Start AutoFormat
Ctrl-Alt-L - Insert a LISTNUM field
Ctrl-Alt-M - Insert a comment
Ctrl-Alt-N - Switch to Draft view
Ctrl-Alt-O - Switch to Outline view
Ctrl-Alt-P - Switch to Print Layout view
Ctrl-Alt-R - Insert a registered trademark symbol
Ctrl-Alt-S - Split/Unsplit the document window
Ctrl-Alt-T - Insert a trademark symbol
Ctrl-Alt-V - Paste special
Ctrl-Alt-Y - Repeat Find
Ctrl-Alt-Z - Switch between the last four edits
Ctrl-Alt-. - Insert an ellipsis
Ctrl-Alt-- - Insert an em dash
Ctrl-Alt-F1 - Display System Information
Ctrl-Alt-F2 - Display File Open Dialogue
Ctrl-Alt-Home - Open a list of browse options
Ctrl-Alt-PageDown - Move to the end of the window
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-PageDown - Extend a selection to the end of a window
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S - Open the Styles task pane

Any others that you might have or might have had would have to have been assigned by you - in Word.

As you can see from the above list, by default, Ctrl-Alt-2 in Word applies the Heading 2 style; it does not insert the @ character.
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I tried manually REMOVING all shortcuts that use CTRL+ALT
Not very clever, in my view. In any event, wiping out a keyboard shortcut merely tells it to do nothing, not to do something else...
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Old thread, but...

On all pc's and keyboards I've been using here (Norway, Europe) ctrl+alt+2 gives @ in every software except Word. I even have a MS Side-Winder X4 keyboard, and @ is marked and placed on the #2 key, and to the right of 2 - which indicates ctrl+alt to activate it. So, in that respect I'd say Ctrl+Alt+2 is std Windows shortcut for @ in this area.
Though as have been said above, using AltGr+2 will give @ in Word

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