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1. Re: Issue with CS5 shortcuts
Noel Carboni Jun 3, 2011 12:27 PM (in response to starfishey)When you get a condition where it's not accepting a keystroke, check something:
Look carefully to see if some of the letters in the menus in the Photoshop main window have been given underlines. If so, this may indicate that you've invoked the menu key introducer (Alt key), and Photoshop is waiting for a menu key.
There is some subtle difference in the way Photoshop handles the Alt key combination with CS5 vs. earlier versions, and because of the way some folks press the keys on their keyboard they end up invoking it (which is easy to do: Just hit the Alt key once and you're there).
There have been some workarounds where folks have created software/scripts that translate keystrokes to lessen the problem. There was a thread on this forum active for a good part of last year which provided some download links...
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/670988?displayFullThread=true
-Noel

