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Bob8K
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Keyboard shortcuts broken?

Post by Bob8K »

Hi,

I'm having a lot of trouble with the keyboard shortcuts.

I followed these instructions:

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowledgeba ... nge-Editor

but what I want to assign for example ctrl+o to browse, when I hit the register icon on the right, it's saved as crtl only, and does not work.

Typing other shortcuts gives weird results: ctrl+p gives ctl*, ctrl+7 gives ctrl>.

There is some kind of keyboard mismatch, even though my Windows 11 installation only uses the US layout.

Edit: I noticed after posting this that this was happening with other apps too. Rebooting solved the problem.
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Dimitar - PDF-XChange
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Re: Keyboard shortcuts broken?

Post by Dimitar - PDF-XChange »

Hello Bob8K,

Welcome to our Forum.

When you tried to assign it, did you see a message that the current shortcut is used by another tool/feature?


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Re: Keyboard shortcuts broken?

Post by Bob8K »

Hi,

You posted about the same time I was editing my request: the problem was system wide, a reboot solved it.

Thanks for the tip anyway.
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Keyboard shortcuts broken?

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:)