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Enter key not working, in various ways

Nov 29, 2011 8:55 AM

Mac OS 10.6.8

Indesign 7.5.2

 

With the CS5.5 upgrade I cannot:

 

1. When in a dialog box, neither RETURN nor ENTER works for 'OK' to accept and close the box.

2. I cannot assign shift-command-return as a Keybaord Command for Forced Line Break. When I try I get the error "conten contains characters which cannot be encoded."

 
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    Nov 29, 2011 9:27 AM   in reply to mykey@mykey3000.com

    THe first step would be to try trashing the prefs. See Replace Your Preferences

     
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    Nov 29, 2011 9:48 AM   in reply to mykey@mykey3000.com

    Unfortunately, copying old shortcut sets into CS5/CS5.5 does not work, as you've discovered.

     
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    Dec 16, 2011 12:47 PM   in reply to mykey@mykey3000.com

    Resetting the preferences doesn't work either. I'll try deleteing the shortcut files now and then resetting. Who knows, I may have to reinstall the ******** package again.

     

    Excuse me while I rant:

    I just plunked down over $500 to upgrade from CS 4 to CS5.5. I have owned it for something like a month and am still not using 5.5 because it has been so much of a production drain. Since none of my preferences were inherited from CS4. I have spent several hours in vain googling for ways to to fix without rebuilding by hand. I followed threads that said I could move my keyboard shortcuts, and eventually found in another thread, where they are stored, and then discovered by trial and error that 7.5 is really 6 and 6 is really 4 (if you know what I mean). So, this morning, thinking I was FINALLY in a place where I could use CS5.5 I discover that the return key no longer lets you say "okay" -- that is select the highlighted button in dialogue boxes. Excuse me? Isn't that keyboard action part of the Mac OS since something like the OS 1?

     

    Thank you Peter Spier for so clearly stating the truth: You can't migrate your keyboard shortcuts. Period. I will now enter some text so other users may find this answer with their search tools:

     

    Keyboard shortcuts from CS4 cannot be migrated to CS5

    CS4 to CS5 keyboard shortcuts no migration path

    CS5.5 CS5 keyboard shortcuts must be built from scratch

     

    Adobe this situation is really lame.

     
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    Dec 16, 2011 1:02 PM   in reply to VJB Scrobe

    I know you fell angry, but keep in mind that there are new features and new tools in CS5 and CS5.5 that require some changes in behavior, including what happens by default with some of the modifier keys, and this seems to be the root of the problem in copying shortcut sets from previous versions (this is the first time that's turned out to be a problem). It's been a while since I moved up, but I'm fairly sure I rebuilt the application preferences from scratch, just becasue it takes only a few minutes to customize and there are new options, but other things like Find/Change Queries and document and printer presets copy fine. You should be able to load styles or swathes from old docs or .ase files, too.

     
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    Dec 16, 2011 11:07 PM   in reply to VJB Scrobe

    Thank you Peter Spier for so clearly stating the truth: You can't migrate your keyboard shortcuts. Period. I will now enter some text so other users may find this answer with their search tools:

     

    Keyboard shortcuts from CS4 cannot be migrated to CS5

    CS4 to CS5 keyboard shortcuts no migration path

    CS5.5 CS5 keyboard shortcuts must be built from scratch

    All this whining!

     

    Use the migration script I wrote in August in this post:  #18 Aug 8, 2011 12:13 AM (in response to Mayerchak)   Re: Importing CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts to CS5

     
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    Jul 2, 2012 8:11 PM   in reply to John Hawkinson

    How do I get the 'Enter' key to continue working as the ok button? Not sure which menu it's under in the shortcuts.

     
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    Jul 3, 2012 5:15 AM   in reply to malxp72

    Perhaps you could tell us the whole story here? Is none of what came before your post in this thread applicable?

     
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    Jul 3, 2012 6:08 AM   in reply to Peter Spier

    If you go to my discussion 'Command key not responding InDesign CS5.5 mac you'll see my question in context. I still can't get the enter key to act as normal - just using it for example to go into Text Frame, change some things and then I just want to hit the OK - the enter button should do this but doesn't. I just want the normal keyboard arrangement back, it's driving me nuts!

     
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    Jul 3, 2012 6:45 AM   in reply to malxp72

    Are you using a custom shortcut set?

     
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