How to disable ribbon keytips?

Question

Since Microsoft Office 2007, ribbon toolbar has been added. When I press Alt key, ribbon keytips will show.

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How can I disable keytips showing? So that when I press Alt key, I want nothing to happen, because I find it very annoying when I switch keyboard layouts with Alt+ Shiftand sometimes keytips will show.

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 17 '16 at 10:14

I have a partial fix for this. To disable the KeyTips when only pressing Alt apply the following registry change:

Word 2013

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\office\15.0\word\disabledshortcutkeyslist]
"KeyMod1"="18,16"

Word 2016

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\word\disabledshortcutkeyslist]
"KeyMod1"="18,16"

The KeyTips will still appear after using a built-in Alt shortcut but at least it is progress.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 29 '13 at 13:17

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I believe this is a "baked in" feature. It's called a UI affordance as it's meant to highlight that the Alt key will trigger those actions.

answered Mar 29 '13 at 13:17

Brad Patton

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a_straight_white_male · Answer 3 · 2024-02-09T13:53:06.120

We all gave up moments before hitting the gold. To ultimately disable the ribbon when switching language with shift+tab, you need to insert this into cmd:

REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\word\disabledshortcutkey list /v KeyMod1 /t REG_SZ /d 18,4,16

or create a .reg file with

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\word\disabledshortcutkeyslist]
"KeyMod1"="18,4,16"

This works as of February 9th, 2024. The decade long question has finally found its' answer. We may rest now, my brothers and sisters.

How to disable ribbon keytips?

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