Microsoft Word keyboard shortcut to close the sidebar
Feb 27, '13 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: schuyler
Feb 27, '13 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: schuyler
Microsoft Word 2011 does not, as far as I can tell, offer a means of assigning a keyboard shortcut to close the sidebar. The AppleScript described here provides that functionality, and sets a keyboard shortcut that will trigger it.
Name the following Applescript "MicrosoftWordCloseSidebar\mosH.scpt" (notice the reversed slash) and save it in ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Word Script Menu Items:
When you press Command-Option-Shift-H, the close button of the sidebar is clicked, and the sidebar closes. The keyboard shortcut comes from the "mosH" part of the Applescript name (m=Command, o=Option, s=Shift, H=the letter H). That shortcut was chosen to complement the existing shortcut to open the Find/Replace Sidebar (Command-Shift-H) and may be altered to suit a particular user's needs. The script is constructed as a background osascript to get around a problem that occurs when trying to GUI-script Microsoft Word from its script menu.
Name the following Applescript "MicrosoftWordCloseSidebar\mosH.scpt" (notice the reversed slash) and save it in ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Word Script Menu Items:
do shell script "osascript -e '
tell application \"System Events\" to tell process \"Microsoft Word\"
set {frontmost, itemFound} to {true, false}
repeat with w in windows
tell w to repeat with g in groups
tell g to repeat with c in checkboxes
tell c to if value of its attribute \"AXHelp\" = \"Close the Sidebar\" then
set itemFound to true
click
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
if itemFound then exit repeat
end repeat
if itemFound then exit repeat
end repeat
end tell
' >/dev/null 2>&1 &"
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