I have a MacBook Pro with Microsoft Word 2011 installed on it.
For some reason, all the editing keyboard shortcuts - such as Cut: Cmd + X, Copy: Cmd + C, and Undo: Cmd + Z - does not work in it.
My friend who also has Microsoft Word 2011 on a MacBook Pro has his keyboard shortcuts working fine.
This situation really hinders my work, what could be the problem?
Check in the edit menu and see what MS Word thinks its shortcut keys are for cut, copy, and paste.
If they're not the keys you’re expecting, maybe something was accidentally configured in Word’s preferences, e.g. some alternate key mapping.
Also, verify that there are not alternative key mappings specified in the Mac System Preferences, both system wide and application specific, that may be modifying your shortcut mappings to other keys.
If the configuration of the hot keys disappeared from the Edit menu, you can reconfigure them through the menu "Tools", option "Customize keyboard"
My keyboard shortcuts for Copy, Cut, and Paste also disappeared under Mountain Lion. Going to Tools/CustomizeKeyboard did not help (the shortcuts are listed under Keyboard Shortcuts but do not show up on the Edit menu).
The workaround suggested above works. In System Preferences/Keyboard/Keyboard Shortcuts/Application Shortcuts, you can add Microsoft Excel (use the + key, then in the Application pulldown menu you might have to go to Other and navigate through the Microsoft Office menu to be able to select Excel). Then I just added cmd-c, x, and v. The keyboard shortcuts still do not appear in Excel's edit menu, but the keyboard shortcuts work as they had done previously.
Hmm, make sure you're using the "command" + "C" / "V" / "x" in order to copy, paste and cut and not "ctrl" + the keys.
Macs dont respond to "ctrl" + other key shortcuts.
Try quitting Microsoft Word (literally quitting...Command+Q) then reopen and see how it goes. It worked for me.
I had the same problem, and I found out how to fix it:
control panel all items language advanced settings (tick) let me set a different input method for each app restart word DONE
Mac-Windows-Word/Excel version: this was my fix
In Categories - All Commands
Then search for CopyText, PasteText etc. If no current keys then Press new shortcut key box and assign the keys wanted
[Note: I'm using Cmd- the same as Cmd+ as you don't actually type the hyphen or plus, and Cmd is the "command" keyboard key. I found the problem using Excel with Office 2011, but it may apply to Word too.)
Cmd-C, Cmd-V, Cmd-X and maybe others stopped working and the shortcuts weren't displayed in the menu after I was messing around trying to add Paste->Transpose to the tool bar. (In addition, selecting an area and hitting Cmd-C did not display the crawling-ants indication around the selection.)
Give this a try, and it may work. I had flakey results: go to menu View -> Toolbars -> Customize Toolbars and Menus...
In the window that appears the Toolbars and Menus "tab" is displayed (for me).
Check or un-check "Show ScreenTips for toolbar commands". (That setting is supposed to show what an icon is supposed to do if you hover the mouse-pointer over it.)
Once I UNchecked that box the shortcuts started working again (after "OK" dismissing the window) and the shortcut keys were displayed in the menus.
BTW, "Show shortcut keys in ScreenTips" is checked for me.
Now as I wrote this posting I found out that Cmd-C stopped working again. I went back in and checked "Show ScreenTips for toolbar commands" and Cmd-C started working again. And after more experimentation no matter if I check or un-check "Show ScreenTips for toolbar commands" I can't get Cmd-C to copy. (However the Edit menu does show that Cmd+C does "copy to scrapbook".)
So I exited Excel 2011 and went back in and all the shortcuts are again working and "Show ScreenTips for toolbar commands" is un-checked. I checked it and the shortcuts continue to work and hovering over an icon displays what function it's supposed to perform.
Therefore, the above may or may not work for you.
I still haven't found a way to make a transpose tool bar shortcut, although I read in another forum that Cmd-E is supposed to paste->transpose, but it doesn't for me. (You can get transpose if you use the Home tab's Paste ribbon pull-down but I'm trying to avoid mousing.) I might have to make a macro for it.
I don't have an answer for this problem. But I am having problems with Word 2011 and keyboard shortcuts. I am trying to simply create a shortcut for the function "GotoHeader". I set it to F4. But when I depress F4 Word does nothing at all. Is there a trick to getting the program to recognize these shortcuts?
I have MBP with MSO 2011 also and had same problem. Use "control" instead of "command" works.
