Comments on Jon Schneider's Tech Blog: Mapping "Find Next/Previous" to F3/Shift+F3 in MS ...

I had the same issue, and I am glad to say assigni...

2011-10-27T17:23:09.751-04:00

I had the same issue, and I am glad to say assigning the browse next/prev to f3/shift f3 works find in word 2010 as well.

Microsoft have had a real penchant these recent ye...

2011-10-25T22:35:23.974-04:00

Microsoft have had a real penchant these recent years of breaking well-established standards and habits, for no apparent reason...

Grrr.

Thanks for finding the totally obscure solution Mr Cogswell. I had searched (pun not intended) for a solution to this a few times and failed...

(No FindNext??? Oh, it's now called "BrowseNext", of course! - Good grief!)

Thanks so much for this, Jeff Cogswell/Jon Schneid...

2011-04-05T17:23:28.052-04:00

Thanks so much for this, Jeff Cogswell/Jon Schneider.
This has been bugging me for so many years. Finally I got fed up and found this page.

In office 2010:
File -> Options -> Customize Ribbon -> "Customize"-button
Scroll down in "Categories"-window and select "All Commands"

In "Commands" window scroll down to:
BrowseNext
BrowsePrev

and assign shortcut keys F3 and F3+shift

Heh, funnily enough it seems like F3 isn't assigned to anyting in Word 2010.
Just about every program I've ever used has F3 as "Find next", so I find this really weird. Even notepad and wordpad use F3 this way.

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2010-11-19T20:20:59.270-05:00

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BrowseNext and BrowsePrev depend on the object typ...

2010-03-16T12:06:29.969-04:00

BrowseNext and BrowsePrev depend on the object type selected for browse. Be sure the object type is "Find".

@Anonymous: It's the "Customize Keyboard&...

2010-03-05T16:46:47.021-05:00

@Anonymous: It's the "Customize Keyboard" dialog. In Word 2003, you can get there from Tools menu | Customize, and then in the Customize dialog that appears, press the Keyboard button.

I'm not sure about Word 2007. If you're using 2007 and can't figure out how to find the Customize Keyboard dialog, let me know, and I can check when I get home. (I have access to Office 2003 at work, and 2007 at home.)

How do I access this "Keyboard assignment win...

2010-03-05T15:57:55.338-05:00

How do I access this "Keyboard assignment window" you speak of?

Jeff, great solution! That's a lot better than my...

2009-04-28T08:30:00.000-04:00

Jeff, great solution! That's a lot better than my solution (since it's simpler and doesn't involve needing to set up any macros). I've confirmed that it works under Word 2003. Thanks very much for sharing this information!

Funny that I never even noticed those little blue arrows under the vertical scrollbar at the lower-right corner of the Word window. They're there in Word 2003, too!

p.s. I should add that I'm using Word 2007. I'm no...

2009-04-26T19:53:00.000-04:00

p.s. I should add that I'm using Word 2007. I'm not sure if these commands were available in earlier versions.

Jeff

Hi! I was searching for the answer to this same pr...

2009-04-26T19:52:00.000-04:00

Hi! I was searching for the answer to this same problem and I found your blog. But I decided to do some more research before adding the macros. I know that this functionality exists by clicking the little double-arrow icons in the lower-right of the Word window, under the scrollbars. They key was to find the name of the commands.

So here's what I did. Floating the mouse over the two double-arrows, I saw a little tooltip appear, telling me the keystrokes Ctrl+Page Up and Ctrl+Page Down were assigned to these commands.

I then opened up the Keyboard assignment window, and clicked just any random command and tried assigning the keystroke Ctrl+PageDown and saw the message:

"Currently assigned to: BrowseNext"

That must be the name. So I selected category "All Commands", scrolled down and found BrowseNext and BrowsePrev. There they were. I assigned F3 to one and Shift+F3 to the other.

Done! :-) (Of course, you would think Microsoft would have made the commands a little more obvious...)

--Jeff

Very ususable function...thanks.

2008-01-30T01:08:00.000-05:00

Very ususable function...thanks.