Tech Samadhan: Word cannot change the function of the specified key. ( 5346) in Microsoft Word in MacBooks

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Word cannot change the function of the specified key. ( 5346) in Microsoft Word in MacBooks

MacBook MS Word Plugin Problems

It's quite some time now Mendeley cite having issues while making citation in the word document. Just Uninstall Mendeley word plugin and reinstall it it will work then follow 

if simply uninstalling of word plugging did not work then you may need to restart you MacBook after uninstalling the word plugin and before installing it again  

e.g., close all the word documents>Uninstall Word Plugin>Restart Your MacBook>Install Word Plugin (again) 

for e.g., It shows massages like this : 

Word cannot change the function of the specified key. ( 5346) in Microsoft Word


 or 


To solve the Problem Please follow the following steps.

Uninstall Word Plugin

1. Close Your Word Documents in your Macbook: 

Before uninstalling word plugin you have to close all the word document you have opened in your MacBook. To uninstall Mendeley Word plugin make sure that you have closed all your word documents in the MacBook or Quit word by clicking with two-finger upon Word icon on DOC Bar in your MacBook, then select Quit.


2. Uninstall Word Plugin: After closing all the word documents or Quit word in your MacBook Go to Mendeley Desktop the go to Tools in the Menu Bar then select Uninstall Word Plugin


 3. You may check your word documents Mendeley Word Plugin under Reference Tab must gone by now.

4. Then again go to the same Mendeley Desktop go to Tools menu click on Install MS Word Plugin.

5.
Now open any word document go to Menu Bar again then click on Insert menu then click on Add-ins from the drop-down menu then select Get Add-ins


6. After selecting Get Add-ins a new Window will open, type Mendeley in the search box click on search icon. You will find Mendeley Cite  add it by just clicking Add button



7. Select Mendeley Cite



Hope your problem about Medeley's Word Pluging problem solved. 

3 comments:

  1. Thank you very much, It been some time I couldn't find any solution even from mendeley's customer support, they suggested uninstalling and reinstalling but didn't work.

    Thank you, it solved my problem

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  2. que pasa cuando tenemos instalado en MAC, word 365 ?

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  3. This problem continue to persist, not working this method. I contacted Mendeley support, they ask to uninstall the plug in and install it again but that did not solved the problem. Hope mendeley will fix this problem in coming update

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