In Word 2016 for Mac I am attempting to reprogram some keys and create key combinations to activate fonts I use in my everyday work, but am finding myself frustrated with its quirks. For example: I use the font Myriad Pro Semibold Italic quite a bit to emphasize terms in my lecture notes. For years, I have used the F3 function key for this purpose; but, the key needs to be reprogrammed to do this. Here are the steps used to create this shortcut: – Using the 'Customize Keyboard' command from the pull down menu, locate 'Fonts' in the 'Categories' window on the left.
Scroll down to Myriad Pro Semibold It in the 'Commands' window on the right and select it. – Press the F3 key at the 'Press new keyboard shortcut:' window. Push the 'Assign' button.
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– The next window below is labeled 'Description', which is also where one begins to notice that something is not working. Instead of showing a Myriad Pro Semibold Italic preview, it shows Myriad Pro Semibold without italics. (What is even stranger is that to the right of the word 'Sample' there is a word written in Hebrew script – dugmah.) – Press OK and end the process. Save the new shortcut to the 'Normal' template, which should make it available to all documents and templates; or, you can save it as I do to a separate template I created specifically for lectures. When I test the shortcut in a new or previously created document, it does not work properly. Pressing the F3 key will give me text in Myriad Pro Semibold, but not Myriad Pro Semibold Italic. I have tried many times now to make it work but without success.
However, if I open Word 2011 and go through the same process there, the shortcut works perfectly as it always has. As nearly as I can determine, modifications to text using custom key modifications that involve italicizing text will not work in Word 2016. I have also tried the other way to do this-creating a macro to format the text. It always fails to work properly. The macro created will reformat the text and make it Myriad Pro Semibold, but the macro will not record the actual font Myriad Pro Semibold It, nor can you get it to italicize the text using the italicize command separately.
As a Mac user, the thing I've come to expect with Microsoft Office for Mac is to assume from the beginning that upgrading is not going to be a simple process. For someone like myself who has created custom templates upon he relies, it is inadvisable to upgrade during the middle of a semester.
Always.always wait until the break between the semesters or the summer to do any upgrading. Another thing I have learned is that I will likely have to reprogram all my macros and keyboard shortcuts (about 12-15 total) because whoever wrote the previous version of Office for Mac has returned to the planet from which they came; and, they have sent down replacements from another planet to create the latest version of Office for Mac!:-) Neil.
Hi Neil, I would like to confirm a few things to move forward: 1. Please try saving the shortcut to the normal.dotm template if you haven't already and see if the issue persists.
If you have tried it, I would like to confirm if the issue persists. Try using different variations of a first-party font family and see if the issue persists. Manually select the problematic font (Myriad Pro Semibold Italic) instead of using the keyboard shortcut and see if it also outputs the Myriad Pro Semibold font. Please also make sure your Office 2016 for Mac applications are up to date and provide us with the version. Regards, Sheen. Office 2016 for Mac's support for third-party PostScript-flavor OpenType fonts has been shaky from the beginning. It's possible you are running one of those type bugs that displays the wrong variant of a font.
Please choose WordAbout Word and check the version number. You should be on at least 15.29, if it's less than that, please choose HelpCheck for Updates to make your software current. Back in the day, most Mac fonts were single PostScript fonts. When you're using single fonts, you must change from Roman to Bold by changing the font, not by clicking the Bold button. With single fonts, every variant shows in the font menu and it's simple to assign a keyboard shortcut to the variant you want. Today, most fonts come in OpenType families. With a family font, you specify the base font with the font dropdown, then get to the variants by clicking on bold and or italic buttons, or by choosing a variant from the font submenu for the chosen family.
These are not so easy to assign a keyboard shortcut to, because the Fonts list in Customize Keyboard lists only the base font name. The way around this is to create a Style. This could be a paragraph-based style from applying to an entire paragraph. Or it could be a character style, to apply to only a word or two in a paragraph. In the style, you can specify both the base font and the variant (bold, italic, bold italic, etc.).
Finally, you can apply a keyboard shortcut to the style so that you can have the workflow you miss. Styles have significant advantages or local formatting (your old technique of selecting text and applying a font). One example is if you decide to change all your bolding from Myriad to Frutiger.
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John Korchok, Production Manager [email protected]. Hello Sheen, Thank you for responding. I really appreciate it. Taking into account your questions, here is what I have since learned though experimentation: 1. It is possible to create and save simple macros if one creates and saves them directly in the template itself (.dotm), whether Normal.dotm or in my case an original template created for my work ( LECTURE12PTFONTS.dotm).
I have not been able to create and save a macro in an existing document and have it work. Neither have I been able to save a macro in an existing document created in Word 2011, but opened with Word 2016, and have that macro be available. Documents created in Word 2011 opened and saved in 2016 are stripped of all their macros and saved keystrokes. Creating a custom keystroke or a macro involving application of a particular font is possible if you save it in the template itself rather than the document you are working on. It is possible to assign special keystrokes to F1, F2, F3, F4, F5 and F7, but F6 cannot be reassigned either to a font or to a macro.
I don't know about the remaining Function keys; I have not attempted to reassign them. Myriad Pro Semibold can be used in a macro or reassigned to a custom keystroke because it is mapped within the Myriad Pro family. Myriad Pro Semibold Italic cannot be used in a macro or reassigned, even though it appears in the the pulldown menu in Word 2016 because it is not mapped. You can however achieve it by recording a macro using Myriad Pro Semibold and applying italics in a separate keystroke. I hope this addresses some of the issues I and others have raised. I am using Word 2016, Version 15.29.1 (161215).