{"id":494,"date":"2012-12-16T15:18:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T23:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2012-12-16T15:18:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T23:18:41","slug":"ms-word-add-context-menu-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2012\/12\/16\/ms-word-add-context-menu-item\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Word — add context menu item"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to add the menu item “Edit\/Paste Special\/Unformatted text” to the right-click context menu in Word 2000 (why I still use Word 2000 is another discussion all together).<\/p>\n

I found this post<\/a>\u00a0 by Gary Frieder<\/span><\/span> of http:\/\/www.customofficedev.com\/<\/a> posted at\u00a0http:\/\/windowssecrets.com<\/a> which described the process of adding to the context menu, and then a comment further down told how to add a macro (such as one to paste text unformatted) to that same context menu.<\/p>\n

Here are the steps Gary Frieder describes:<\/p>\n

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  1. Go to Tools > Customize.<\/li>\n
  2. In the Customize dialog, click on the Toolbars tab, then scroll down until you can see the listing for “Shortcut Menus”.<\/li>\n
  3. Click a checkmark next to this listing, and you will see a Shortcut Menus toolbar appear.<\/li>\n
  4. This toolbar will have three menus: Text, Table and Draw.<\/li>\n
  5. Click on the one for Text, and you will see a listing of all of the text-context shortcut menus – there are quite a lot of them. Word uses internal “contextual” rules to determine which menu is appropriate to display at a given moment.<\/li>\n
  6. The most frequently-seen one of these is “Text”.<\/li>\n
  7. Click on “Text” and you will see the shortcut menu pop up.<\/li>\n
  8. You can now customize this like any other menu:<\/li>\n
  9. With the Text shortcut menu displaying, click on the Commands tab in the Customize dialog.<\/li>\n
  10. Click on Edit in the Categories list.<\/li>\n
  11. Then scroll down the Commands list until you locate Paste Special.<\/li>\n
  12. You can just click and drag this command from the Commands list, onto your shortcut menu.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And here’s the quote about creating and adding a macro:<\/p>\n

    Thanks a million, Gary. Worked like a charm. A couple of months ago, I made a little macro (my first ever) for “Paste Special > unformatted text” so I wouldn’t have to click “unformatted text” everytime. I had also created a my own toolbar icon for it.<\/p>\n

    When I followed your directions but instead of dragging Paste Special from the commands list, I dragged my little macro icon onto the context menu and it works perfectly!<\/p>\n

    Thanks to the pros!!<\/p>\n

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    I wanted to add the menu item “Edit\/Paste Special\/Unformatted text” to the right-click context menu in Word 2000 (why I still use Word 2000 is another discussion all together). I found this post\u00a0 by Gary Frieder of http:\/\/www.customofficedev.com\/ posted at\u00a0http:\/\/windowssecrets.com which described the process of adding to the context menu, and then a comment further […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}