[bridgeladd]

I used to be able to create keybord shortcuts for suit symbols in word. Now with a windows 7 word i go through the same process but it will not create the shortcuts. Can anyone help?

[steve2005]

 bridgeladd, on 2012-February-25, 12:09, said:

I used to be able to create keybord shortcuts for suit symbols in word. Now with a windows 7 word i go through the same process but it will not create the shortcuts. Can anyone help?

Not a Word 2010 expert but this will work.
go insert->symbols -> other symbols

find ♣ and click on
press [shortcut key] a window will popup
press the key combination you want to use
I used alt-Q for ♣ alt-w for ♦ alt-e for ♥ alt-r for ♠, but anything unansigned will do

press assign
press close
repeat for other suits

[S2000magic]

Try this (w/o spaces):

[ sp ] for ♠

[ he ] for ♥

[ di ] for ♦

[ cl ] for ♣

[bridgeladd]

 steve2005, on 2012-February-25, 16:37, said:

Not a Word 2010 expert but this will work.
go insert->symbols -> other symbols

find ♣ and click on
press [shortcut key] a window will popup
press the key combination you want to use
I used alt-Q for ♣ alt-w for ♦ alt-e for ♥ alt-r for ♠, but anything unansigned will do

press assign
press close
repeat for other suits

Well, this is what i have been doing. I have now tried using your choice of shortcuts but absolutely nothing. I am getting desperate. Do you have a full version of Word of one that came with windows?

[bridgeladd]

 S2000magic, on 2012-February-25, 18:07, said:

Try this (w/o spaces):

[ sp ] for ♠

[ he ] for ♥

[ di ] for ♦

[ cl ] for ♣

Have tried your suggestions and they dont work im afraid. Nothing seems to work. I am beginning to suspect it is my version of Word. Never had a problem before.

[whereagles]

I use the shortcut thing with F5 thru F8 for the suits.

[steve2005]

 bridgeladd, on 2012-February-26, 04:34, said:

Well, this is what i have been doing. I have now tried using your choice of shortcuts but absolutely nothing. I am getting desperate. Do you have a full version of Word of one that came with windows?

i have a full word 2010. You probably have the one that comes with the computer i guess, that doesnt have outlook.
Should work with that too though, the word part is the same

[barmar]

 bridgeladd, on 2012-February-26, 04:38, said:

Have tried your suggestions and they dont work im afraid. Nothing seems to work. I am beginning to suspect it is my version of Word. Never had a problem before.

I think s2000magic misunderstood, he gave the answer for this forum, not Word.

[fromageGB]

Hoping this is not a threadjack, can anyone tell me how to assign key/key combinations to coloured suit symbols in open office? I've given up Microsoft, and haven't figured it out yet.

[Siegmund]

I imagine to get coloured symbols you have to record a macro.

For uncoloured symbols, probably the easiest way is to add four new entries to the AutoCorrect dictionary. At one time, the only other way was editing a text file that listed the assignments of keys to characters but it may have gotten easier recently (they have finally added support for Alt+key shortcuts after years of complaints.)

I am sorry to say this is one of the few things I found much harder to do in OpenOffice than in MS Office. As a result I switched to doing almost all my bridge writing in LaTeX rather than a word processor.

[Free]

 S2000magic, on 2012-February-25, 18:07, said:

Try this (w/o spaces):

[ sp ] for ♠

[ he ] for ♥

[ di ] for ♦

[ cl ] for ♣

Nominate this as "read the question before you answer"-award of 2012.

[bridgeladd]

 Free, on 2012-February-27, 13:55, said:

Nominate this as "read the question before you answer"-award of 2012.

Have tried every combination.....nothing. The assign key seems to have no effect on anything.

[Taven]

I tried ♠ and ♥ with Mobile BBO, neither resolved, will try to spell both out for next message.

[FM75]

https://groups.googl...dge/P-S48ncvbY8

[barmar]

 Taven, on 2012-December-11, 21:28, said:

I tried ♠ and ♥ with Mobile BBO, neither resolved, will try to spell both out for next message.

What does Mobile BBO have to do Microsoft Word?

The syntax with square brackets is only for the BBO Forums. In the BBO apps, you use !S, !H, !D, !C. And in Word, you follow the other answers.

[fromageGB]

 Siegmund, on 2012-February-27, 10:00, said:

I am sorry to say this is one of the few things I found much harder to do in OpenOffice than in MS Office.

OK, I have an answer of sorts for LibreOffice, the new OpenOffice. It uses auto-correct.

It can't do it for symbols embedded in text, such as 3♥, but you can set it up for the texts complete. So create on a page 1♥ 2♥ 3♥ etc, using "insert / special character...", selecting for your font the subset "miscellaneous symbols" and choosing the suit. This is then black, so select/highlight it with mouse drag and change the colour as you want it. Then for each combinationtext such as 3♥, highlight it and "tools / autocorrect options...", replace. The selected text will be in the "with" box and will look black. Enter the characters you want substituted (such as 3!h or maybe just 3h is better), in the "replace" box, and click the "new" button.

Then when you later type 1c 1s 2h it appears as 1♣ 1♠ 2♥ in full colour. Tedious to initially set up, but better than inserting or copy/pasting characters each time.

[SteveMoe]

Microsoft Word 2010 has an auto correct function (I seem to recall the same exists in 2007 too).
Go to Insets-->Symbols-->More Symbols-->Symbols[tab]
Find the card symbols in the font you want (Say Arial)-->Select the symbol, say ♠

-->Autocorrect[button]--> replace !S with [chosen symbol ♠].

These changes are saved to your normal template. Be sure autocorrect is on.

Now every time you type !S, ♠ will show up (in black).
GW/OS
!H = ♥
!D = ♦
!C = ♣

Still working on color.....

[fromageGB]

Just an update on the LibreOffice setup.

Now I have been doing bridge notes using the coloured substitutions, I certainly am finding it easier to just type 2c for example, rather than messing around with the shift key or capitals. If I want to write " 3D film " the capitalised version is not substituted. Works well. If you really did want literally 2c, such as for a section heading in lower case, then you can get that by typing 2 c then later going back to delete the space.