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I found that some of my keyboard shortcuts somehow trigger open office 365 welcome window. I'm a heavy autohotkey user and it looks like it have something to do with alt+shift. I tried to remove office alltogether, but then new window in chrome spawns on keyboard shortcut suggesting me to buy office. Can I remove it somehow?

P.S. Here's the link to popup: https://www.office.com/?from=OfficeKey As you can see, from option is set to "OfficeKey". What is this OfficeKey then and how to change it or better completely remove?

P.P.S. As described here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/18/18683333/microsoft-office-key-keyboards-support it is added recently, and it looks like the reason in that I'm on developers edition of windows 10 with latest updates.

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  • Is it possible that you have installed Office trial and now cannot get rid of the request for buying a serial? – harrymc Jul 04 '19 at 17:20
  • no, its only triggered when I press specific keboard shortcuts like alt + shift + l for some reason – sandric Jul 04 '19 at 17:41
  • Please add a screenshot of that windows. – harrymc Jul 04 '19 at 17:42
  • @harrymc added in description. – sandric Jul 04 '19 at 17:47
  • Alt+shift is used for switching input languages. If you only have one input language you can disable it. – harrymc Jul 04 '19 at 17:59
  • @harrymc How is this corresponds to my question? I have only one language and prior to last windows update had no issue with language switching. Not even touching that its not language switching, its office welcome window/popup. – sandric Jul 04 '19 at 19:37
  • Then what are you using alt+shift for? If this is caused by some startup product: (1) See if this is happening while booting in Safe mode, and if not then (2) Use [Autoruns](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns) to disable/re-enable startup products in bunches until you find the one. – harrymc Jul 04 '19 at 19:41

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Just upgraded to Windows 1903 and hit this myself, seems Microsoft decided to assign the keyboard shortcut for the new Office App to Win+Ctrl+Alt+Shift! (aka HYPR key combination for QMK users)

Changing the open command for this keyboard shortcut to rundll32 resolved the issue for me. Using an elevated cmd, run the following command:

    REG ADD HKCU\Software\Classes\ms-officeapp\Shell\Open\Command /t REG_SZ /d rundll32
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    This did not work for me. For example, pressing Win+Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L still takes me to LinkedIn. – aardvarkk Sep 22 '20 at 22:13
  • @aardvarkk That is only to disable the base shortcut. You need to use OfficeKeyFix (linked in another answer) to remap the other Office Key shortcuts. – entropo Aug 09 '21 at 11:50
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jfrmilner's answer works, but doesn't disable the application-specific hotkeys.

How to Remap the Office Key on Your Keyboard.

OfficeKeyFix-

It involves restarting Explorer, so it's not pretty, but it is a fix.

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For AHK:

^!+LWin::send {Blind}{vk07}

It keeps the OfficeKey + letter hotkeys in place. You can add your own:

^!+#m::run explorer.exe shell:AppsFolder\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe!microsoft.windowslive.mail
^!+#c::run explorer.exe shell:AppsFolder\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe!microsoft.windowslive.calendar

If you have installed the Microsoft Office app from the Microsoft Store, this app will open instead of the website. If you still want to be able to use the app sometimes and it's installed, you can map it to OfficeKey + Enter for example:

^!+#Enter::run explorer.exe shell:AppsFolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_8wekyb3d8bbwe!Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub
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You can use hyperenable. It's an improved version based on OfficeKeyFix. (No console window flash, no explorer restart, no hardcoded 4s delay.)

Disclaimer: I'm the author.

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  • This app is my last hope, as all other answers here are not working for me ;) But, I get an error installing it: `(...) Linking hyperenable.exe cl -nologo -std:c++20 -EHs -EHc -O2 pipe.obj squatter.obj wincon.obj yaml.obj main.obj -link -nologo -subsystem:windows user32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib -out:hyperenable.exe make[1]: Leaving directory 'c:/Users/myuser/Downloads/hyperenable-master/src' Invalid switch - /-I make: *** [Makefile:11: src] Error 4` I get this both when running the `make` command in powershell and in developer command prompt. I'll open a github issue for your convenience. – ElRudi Jun 21 '23 at 22:21
  • Sorry, false alarm. The error message was real, but not critical and the binary was built just fine. – ElRudi Jun 21 '23 at 23:21
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You can set it to any command by adding the following subkeys to:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\ms-officeapp\shell\open\command

and changing the string value to any command or path you use often or leave it empty

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  • locate OneDrive icon somewhere
  • right click item
  • "Settings"
  • "Office" tab
  • uncheck "Use Office applications to sync Office files that I open"

:)

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