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If you want to reassign and WordStar Command Emulator commands back to their Word equivalents - yes, some people do want to! - you can do this through the keyboard customisation options in Microsoft Word. The information below applies to microsoft Word in general.
You can check and modify the key assignments as follows:
- Click the Office button at the top left of the Word screen, then click Word Options at the bottom of the menu.
- In the Word Options screen click Customize, and then just to the right of Keyboard shortcuts click the Customize button.
- To view, add, remove, or modify a command, in the Customize Keyboard screen:
- For the most of the WordStar commands, under Categories, select Macros, then under Commands, select the command you want to view or change, for example, select wsKB (WordStar Ctrl+K, B).
- For basic and simple commands, under Categories, select All Commands, then under Commands, select the command you want to view or change, for example, select CharLeft (the Left Arrow key cursor movement).
The current keyboard shortcuts will be shown in the Current keys box (there can be multiple options). For the two examples above it will show ^KB for the wsKB macro, and for CharLeft it will show Left and ^S (two optional keyboard commands).
- To add a new shortcut, click once in the Press new shortcut key box, and then type the new command you want to use, and then click the Assign button.
Note: If the keyboard shortcut is already assigned to a different command this command will be shown under the Current keys box.
- To delete an unwanted keyboard shortcut, click on it in the Current keys list, and then click the Remove button.
- Click Close, then click OK to go back to the Microsoft Word editing screen.
If you want to reassign and WordStar Command Emulator commands back to their Word equivalents - yes, some people do want to! - you can do this through the keyboard customisation options in Microsoft Word. The information below applies to microsoft Word in general.
You can check and modify the key assignments as follows:
- Click the File tab, then click Options.
- In the Word Options screen click Customize Ribbon, and then just to the right of Keyboard shortcuts click Customize.
- To view, add, remove, or modify a command, in the Customize Keyboard screen:
- For the most of the WordStar commands, under Categories, select Macros, then under Commands, select the command you want to view or change, for example, select wsKB (WordStar Ctrl+K, B).
- For basic and simple commands, under Categories, select All Commands, then under Commands, select the command you want to view or change, for example, select CharLeft (the Left Arrow key cursor movement).
The current keyboard shortcuts will be shown in the Current keys box (there can be multiple options). For the two examples above it will show ^KB for the wsKB macro, and for CharLeft it will show Left and ^S (two optional keyboard commands).
- To add a new shortcut, click once in the Press new shortcut key box, and then type the new command you want to use, and then click the Assign button.
Note: If the keyboard shortcut is already assigned to a different command this command will be shown under the Current keys box.
- To delete an unwanted keyboard shortcut, click on it in the Current keys list, and then click the Remove button.
- Click Close, then click OK to go back to the Microsoft Word editing screen.
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If you want to reassign and WordStar Command Emulator commands back to their Word equivalents - yes, some people do want to! - you can do this through the keyboard customisation options in Microsoft Word. The information below applies to microsoft Word in general.
You can check and modify the key assignments as follows:
- Click the Options menu (with the WordStar Command Emulator running), otherwise click the Tools menu, then click Customize.
- In the Customize screen click Keyboard.
- To view, add, remove, or modify a command, in the Customize Keyboard screen, in the Categories box, choose the menu name for the type of command you want to view or change. You can select All Commands if you aren''t sure. For the most of the WordStar commands, select Macros. Then under Commands, select the command you want to view or change, for example:
- Under Categories, select Macros, and then under Commands select wsKB (WordStar Ctrl+K, B).
- Under Categories, select Edit, and then under Commands, select CharLeft (the Left Arrow key cursor movement).
The current keyboard shortcuts will be shown in the Current keys box (there can be multiple options). For the two examples above it will show ^KB for the wsKB macro, and for CharLeft it will show Left and ^S (two optional keyboard shortcuts).
- To add a new shortcut, click once in the Press new shortcut key box, and then type the new command you want to use, and then click the Assign button.
Note: If the keyboard shortcut is already assigned to a different command this command will be shown under the Press new shortcut key box.
- To delete an unwanted keyboard shortcut, click on it in the Current keys list, and then click the Remove button.
- Click Close, then click Close again to go back to the Microsoft Word editing screen.
Microsoft Word 2007 introduced what Microsoft called "the Common User Interface", which is characterised by a large ''ribbon'' toolbar in place of the earlier collection of smaller toolbars with pull-down menu lists.
The WordStar Command Emulator was written to modify the older toolbar style used in Microsoft Word 97-XP. The toolbar and menu commands are not ''hard-coded'' meaning that you can change them if they conflict with something else you use, or just because you prefer alternative menu commands.
The alternative would be to assign the commands withn the program code, which would mean that you either wouldn't have the option to change them afterwards, or that additional coding would be needed to provide a way for you to change them and to save these changes. This is the system that would be needed to implement a proper Ribbon style set of menus, and as a consequence, versions of Microsoft Word that use the Ribbon interface put all of the WordStar menu additions into an Add-Ins tab in a seemingly random order.
As WordStar is mainly about using the keyboard to accomplish a writing task, the extra work and restrictions that would be caused by programatically imposing a menu or Ribbon system was not considered to be of value.
This article lists all of the commands available in the trial (un-registered) version of the WordStar Command Emulator version 1.4. There are more commands available in the full (registered) version of the WordStar Command Emulator. You can compare the commands available in each version of the WordStar Command Emulator.
The WordStar Command Emulator also customises the Word pull-down menus so that they closely follow the menus in WordStar 7.0d.
See also:
Keystroke | Command |
^A | Word Left |
^B | Para Down (doesn't copy formatting as in WordStar) |
^C | Page Down |
^D | Character Right |
^E | Line Up |
^F | Word Right |
^G | Delete Right |
^H | Backspace Delete |
^K1~3 | Insert Bookmark |
^Q1~3 | Go To Bookmark |
^QC | End of Document |
^QD | End of Line |
^QE | Start of Window (Top Left) |
^QR | Start of Document |
^QS | Start of Line |
^QX | End of Window (Bottom Right) |
^QY | Delete to End of Line |
^R | Page Up |
^S | Character Left |
^T | Delete Word |
^W | Scroll Window Up |
^X | Line Down |
^Y | Delete Line |
^Z | Scroll Window Down |
Non-WS, but useful extra Commands | |
ALT+A | Edit Select All |
ALT+B | Toggle Bold |
ALT+C | Copy to Windows Clipboard |
ALT+F,O | File Open (Windows standard keystroke) |
ALT+S | File Save |
ALT+V | Paste from Windows Clipboard |
ALT+X | Cut to Windows Clipboard |
Note: | ALT+V clashes with the View menu. Therefore, use ALT+F, RIGHT ARROW to select View. Also ALT+B clashes with the Table menu - use ALT+W,LEFT ARROW to select Table. |
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