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Customizing Word

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..........................By Stephen Kahn

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know about Microsoft’s eccentric use of
the “Cancel” button in some dialog boxes,
especially the Commands dialog box. In
most Macintosh programs, clicking on the
“Cancel” button exits you from the dialog
box and abandons any changes you made
in the box. While this is true in most
Microsoft Word dialog boxes as well, in a
few cases, clicking the “Cancel” button
means “exit and keep the changes.” If you
make changes in the Commands dialog
box, such as adding or removing com-
mands from menus, clicking “Cancel”
confirms these changes and returns you
to the editing screen. You can use the
Commands dialog box’s “Reset” button to
undo changes you have made, but it
removes all changes you made since you
last saved or opened the configuration
file. In other words, “Reset” doesn’t limit
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the dialog box was last open, it undoes all
changes you made every time the dialog
box was open.

The Print Preview window provides
another example of “Cancel” abuse. As a
general rule, if you see a “Cancel” button
but no “OK” button, you are probably
looking at the “bad Cancel.” (Even this
rule is not ironclad, as the “Cancel” button
in the Define Styles dialog box — which
has an “OK” button — sometimes works as a
“Cancel” and sometimes works as an “OK.”)
For this reason, be cautious when you
experiment with the Commands dialog box.
Use “Save As” to save your configuration
in an alternative configuration file (as
explained in the
next section)
before making
drastic changes.