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Keyboard Shortcuts Settings
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A
keyboard shortcut (or accelerator key, shortcut
key, hot key, hotkey, key binding, key
combo, etc.) is a combination of keys that you press
simultaneously in order to perform a certain action.
Keyboard shortcuts are added, deleted and edited in a special
window that can be opened in several ways:
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Click
on the Comfort Keys icon in the tray (next to the clock).
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2.
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Open
the context menu with a right click on the Comfort Keys icon in the
systems tray and select the Keyboard Shortcuts Settings
item.
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3.
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Press
the keyboard shortcut that opens the settings (by default,
Win+CapsLock).
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Next step: Specify the keyboard shortcut that will be used.
There are two ways to do it:
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Switch
to the Key combination field and press the necessary
keyboard combination.
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2.
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Use
the mouse pointer to select the keys that will be used in the
combination on the on-screen keyboard.
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Next step: Use the Action field to select the type of
the action that will be performed when you press the specified
shortcut key.
You can use the Active field to specify the display modes
the specified action should work in. For instance, you can disable
the Win keys and enable additional shortcut macros (see Play a keystroke macro) in the full-screen mode
(when you start a computer game).
Last step: Specify advanced parameters for the selected
action. See the list of all actions, their parameters and usage
examples in the Action Types
section.
Tips and tricks
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When
you specify a keyboard shortcut, you can use any keys and
their combinations, including NumLock, CapsLock, Alt+Tab (except
for Sleep, WakeUp, Power, F-Lock and Ctrl+Alt+Del).
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When
you specify keyboard shortcuts, the left and right control keys
(Shift, Ctrl, Alt or Win) are processed differently. If you want to
use only right Shift, Ctrl, Alt or Win in a keyboard shortcut,
press the right keys. If you want to use both right and left keys,
press the left keys.
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To
delete a previously specified keyboard shortcut, select the
(None) item in the Action type field.
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To
view the list of all specified keyboard shortcuts and select
any of them, you can use the Key combination drop-down list.
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To
print the list of keyboard shortcuts, select the Print
List item on the File menu.
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You
can configure several files with keyboard shortcuts and
switch between them when you need it (for instance, enable a
separate set of keyboard shortcuts for particular applications).
You can activate the necessary keyboard shortcut set from the list
of recently used ones by selecting the Activate Keyboard
Shortcuts file item from the context menu of the program. Also,
you can specify and use a keyboard shortcut for switching between
files from the list in the context menu (by default, Win+O).
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You
can add a set of keyboard shortcuts from another file. To do it,
select the Add set from file item on the File menu
and select a file with a keyboard shortcut set.
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You
can add a set of standard keyboard shortcuts to your file.
To add or remove a set of standard keyboard shortcuts, open the
Options dialog box and select the Keyboard Shortcuts
item.
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All
active keyboard shortcuts are shown on the built-in on-screen
keyboard. See the Using the
on-screen keyboard section for more details about how to
use the on-screen keyboard.
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To use
one set of keyboard shortcuts in workgroups, save the file
with this set of keyboard shortcuts to a network resource and
configure it to be used on each workstation.
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If you
create a noteworthy set of keyboard shortcuts and send it to us, we
will be glad to include it in the next release of the program. In
this case, you will be specified as the author of this file. Send
your files to
dev@comfort-software.com
or
post them on our
forum.
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