Microsoft KB Archive/107224

= How to Add a Command to a Shortcut Menu =

Article ID: 107224

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 6.0a
 * Microsoft Word 6.0c
 * Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 95a

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This article was previously published under Q107224



SUMMARY
You can add commands to the shortcut menus (which you open in Word for Windows by clicking the right mouse button) using the Customize command on the Tools menu. This article lists the shortcut menus and provides an example to show you how to add the Full Screen View command to the Text shortcut menu.

Shortcut menus are context-sensitive, which means that Word determines which menu to display based on the text or item you point to. For example, the Text shortcut menu appears when you click-right on text in your document, whereas the Table Cells shortcut menu appears when you click- right in a table cell.



MORE INFORMATION
The following shortcut menu names appear in the Tools Customize dialog box under the Menus tab at the bottom of the Change What Menu list:   Drawing Objects            Tables Drop Caps                 Table Cells End Notes                 Table Headings Fields                    Table Lists Display Fields            Table Pictures Form Fields               Table Text Footnotes                 Whole Tables Frames                    Linked Whole Tables Headings                  Text Linked Headings           Linked Text Lists                     Toolbars Pictures                  Toolbar Customization Spelling (Word 7.0 only) To customize a shortcut menu, do the following:


 * 1) From the Tools menu, choose Customize.
 * 2) Select the Menus tab.
 * 3) From the Change What Menu list, select the shortcut menu you want to change. For example, to change the Text menu, select Text (Shortcut).
 * 4) From the Categories and Commands lists, select the command you want to add. For example, to add the View Full Screen command, select View from the Categories list and select ToggleFull from the Commands list.
 * 5) Select a position from the Position On Menu list.
 * 6) If necessary, modify the Name On Menu and Save Changes In boxes and then choose the Add button.
 * 7) Choose the Close button.
 * 8) Point to some text in your document and click-right. Your newly added command should appear on the shortcut menu. For example, Toggle Full should now appear on the Text shortcut menu.

For information about how to do this in Word 97, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

157195 Word 97: How to Add or Remove a Command from a Shortcut Menu

