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All Mac applications use ⇧-Cmd-Z to redo the last undone action. All, that is, except Microsoft Office. Office prefers that you use Cmd-Y instead. ⇧-Cmd-Z is mapped to something else – worse, it's something which seems to be un-undoable based on my repeated accidental hits of it.

I've gone into Tools → Customize Keyboard but Redo doesn't appear in the (unsearchable) list anywhere. I can't find the mapping for ⇧-Cmd-Z either so that I can reassign it to something innocuous.

Does anyone know of a hack I might employ to 'fix' this behaviour and force Word (and Excel) to behave like good little Mac programs? Failing that, can anyone tell me what ⇧-Cmd-Z is mapped to so that I might disable it?

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  • Thank you for the explanation. Their diabological design decision left me entirely befuddled after I pressed cmd+shift+z a couple times, then pressed cmd+y after it didn't work... strange things started happening, and when I pressed edit the "redo" function wasn't even there. It turns out that cmd+shift+z maps to some useless irrevocable action.
    – pete
    Aug 28, 2014 at 21:19

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Reset to default
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Have you tried EditRedoOrRepeat?

Tools → Customize Keyboard → Edit → EditRedoOrRepeat.

Press Cmd-⇧-Z, click Assign, then OK, done!

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  • In Windows: File > Options > Customize Ribbon > Customize > All Commands > EditRedoOrRepeat
    – Alaa M.
    Dec 8, 2019 at 21:03
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In addition to the accurate instructions provided by slhck, I found I also needed to remove the existing assignment for Cmd-⇧-Z, which was assigned to the Reset Character command. To do that, go to:

Tools → Customize Keyboard → All Commands → ResetChar

In the Current keys box, select the listing for Cmd-⇧-Z and then click the Remove button. Then click OK. Note that I had to do this before assigning the shortcut to the EditRedoOrRepeat command.

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  • Works without removing the existing assignment. It may be cleaner, but not necessary.
    – Linkmichiel
    Feb 9, 2018 at 12:52

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