The target of my ire is the 'add to dictionary' hotkey in Word. It has always been there, since I started using Word back when we coded on clay tablets and drove cars with our feet. I think it would be pretty obvious that you wouldn't want to create a conflict with this control, as it is probably the most often used action by fast and lazy typists like myself.
Creating a conflict with the mapped key takes an operation that requires a half second to complete and turns it into a process where you have to move your hand off the mouse, which takes seconds, thereby massively increasing the time spent just moving from one control to another.
I did discover that if you click "additional actions" and go to "options", you can turn off the offending menu item, and it won't trouble you anymore. I did not find a way to rebind the key mappings, so this will work in place of that.
But it brings me back to the original point of my Brain Defrag for today, which is this - to the engineer who created the key mapping conflict in the first place:
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