CTRL+F11

Question

I use Office 2003 Professional Edition (version USA) with Vista  integral edition. I created a shortcut in Word CTRL+Shift+F11 for the symbol Double Closing Quote. It worked without problem for the past ten years

Since three days using F11 with or without  Shift gives an extremely disturbing result : the graphic card is suppressed, it is nearly impossible to use the keyboard. 

In order to get the graphic card work again I must use the restore command. But even this is difficult to get at, since F8 when the computer is re-started works only once out of three tries. Does anyone has the answer ?

Answer 1

Many thanks to all those who answered my question. However I programmed

CTRL+Shift+ F9, F10, F11, and F12 for (in that order) opening and closing

single quotes, opening and closing double quotes Word/Office 2003, Vista).

This worked 100% for the past 8 or 10 years. What I cannot understand is

why, all of a sudden, the F11 key reacts the way it does. That is, the

graphic card is not working anymore. Screen appears as if there was no

graphic card at all.And the computer itself seems to be strongly disturbed,

since restarting the computer and using F8 for booting in safe mode works

once out of four. When it works, then the restoration of the system brings

the graphic card back, Any suggestion ?

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Answer 4

FWIW, there is a built-in keyboard shortcut for the double closing quote that is just as easy to use as the one you assigned. This assumes that you do not have Smart Quotes enabled or that you need to insert a double closing quote when Word gets it wrong. The shortcut is Ctrl+', ". That is, press Ctrl and the apostrophe key simultaneously, release, and press Shift and the apostrophe key (or whatever else produces " on your keyboard).

There are similar shortcuts for the opening double quote and opening and closing single quotes. Especially useful is the one for an apostrophe (Ctrl+', '), which can be used when Word wants to give you an opening single quote instead.

Answer 5

My suggestion would be to re-program your shortcut, using a key combination that is less frequently used by Word or Vista.  For example, "ALT + CTRL + 9" would probably work, as this does not seem to be used by default for Word 2003, and it is very unlikely that this combination would affect the video card, or any other application within Word, or your Windows Vista operating system.

In case you did not know how to program this, here is how:

[1]  Open Word 2003.

[2]  Click on insert -> symbol.

[3]  Bring up your code for your "double-closing-quote" in the list of symbols.  Sorry, I am not sure which symbol you are using here, so I cannot provide the character code for you.

[4]  Click the "shortcut key" button, and proceed to save your new shortcut.

After doing the above steps, your sequence of "ALT + CTRL + 9" would insert your "double-closing-quote".  I suggested the "ALT +CTRL +9" since that is close to the CTRL+Shift+F11 that you had been using previously, as far as to the placement of  your fingers on the keyboard.