Right-click at current text cursor location in MS Word?

[IanHowlett]

Hello,

I'd like to use Keyboard Maestro to perform a right-click at the current text cursor (not mouse pointer) location.

What I'm trying to achieve is: in Microsoft Word, if I type a word incorrectly, I want to use the keyboard arrows to move the text cursor back over the word that's now highlighted in red, and press a key shortcut to right-click it, so that I can choose a correction from the list that appears.

I found this discussion thread, but I don't think it answers my question:

Keyboard Shortcut to Right Click in Mac OS X

Is it really possible to invoke a context menu using a keyboard shortcut instead of clicking the right mouse button in OS X? Please not that I don't want to depend on the position of the mouse cursor.

Thanks a lot,
Ian.

[jonathonl]

First off I use KM to autocorrect words I commonly mis-spell
e.g. manger > manager; ok > OK, eg > e.g. etc

I do this is KM as it is then available in all programs e.g. mail, pages etc
and these are all in a macrogroup named TEXT

Also try checking out this thread....

Select word at current text insertion point

I’m trying to create a macro that will select the word at the current text insertion point, then perform an action on that word. The only way I know how to do this is to double-click at the text insertion point. Is there a way to read the position of the text insertion point so I can direct Keyboard Maestro to double-click there? I won’t necessarily be at the beginning or ending of a word.

[JMichaelTX]

@IanHowlett

What I'm trying to achieve is: in Microsoft Word, if I type a word incorrectly, I want to use the keyboard arrows to move the text cursor back over the word that's now highlighted in red, and press a key shortcut to right-click it, so that I can choose a correction from the list that appears.

Unfortunately the macOS does not, in general, provide the location of the text cursor.
But here's a solution that brings up the Word Spell Check. Maybe that will work for you:

Below is just an example written in response to your request. You will need to use as an example and/or change to meet your workflow automation needs.

Please let us know if it meets your needs.

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MACRO:   Show Spell check in MS Word [Example]

-~~~ VER: 1.0    2020-09-11 ~~~
Requires: KM 8.2.4+   macOS 10.11 (El Capitan)+
(Macro was written & tested using KM 9.0+ on macOS 10.14.5 (Mojave))

DOWNLOAD Macro File:

Show Spell check in MS Word [Example].kmmacros
Note: This Macro was uploaded in a DISABLED state. You must enable before it can be triggered.

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[IanHowlett]

Hello.

Thanks for your reply. It's a real shame macOS doesn't allow this to happen.

I found that if I added five presses of the Tab key to the end of your macro, this moves the focus so that I could then use the arrow keys to manually select the correct AutoCorrect entry.

Here's how I modified it:

This is what then appears:

It's not a full solution, because you can't just simply press enter to fully add the entry to autocorrect, but it helps.

Thanks,
Ian.