I particularly like the keyboard shortcuts used by OneNote (and a load of other applications), but specifically the ability to use ctrl + . (control + period) to create a bulleted list.
So I created a shortcut in Word to do just that... except, it seems to be doing something else. It works to add the bullet points, but it also looks like it's doing some other long running process, because every time I do it, I get the loading icon. Unfortunately right now, I just did it on a 100+ page document, and it's been loading for about 5 minutes right now. When it first popped the loading icon, a status message came up on the bottom that said it was re-paginating.
I went to File > Options > Customize Ribbon > Customize Keyboard Shortcuts and I didn't immediately see anything else that had that shortcut assigned. I also couldn't find that shortcut in the list published from Microsoft's list of Word Shortcuts.
Question: What else does the ctrl + . shortcut do? Or could it be caused by the bullet gallery action? It seems to get worse with the size of the document.
1 Answer
What command did you choose to create this shortcut?
I try to create the shortcut Ctrl+. (Ctrl + period) for FormatBulletDefault, it seems work smoothly in my small document.
Besides, there are two existed shortcuts provided by Word to apply or remove bulleted list formatting, you may check whether these shortcut keys have same problem in big document.
Ctrl+Shift+L: applies the predefined List Bullet style.
Ctrl+Shift+N: removes bullets to apply normal style.
