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May 11, 2025 11:54 AM UTC
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P: Shift+K does add/remove "shortcut keyword", but gives no more visual feedback (popup)

use case: I want to browse a set of photos and incrementally add some keyword, this involves going back and removing the same keyword.

Background: I am using Lightroom 14.3.1 (latest) on Windows (Windows 10 version 22H2 Build 19045.5737). Lightroom language is english.

Feature in question: For quickly setting keywords, there is the "keyword shortcut" feature, which exists since at least Lightroom 6 and speeds up work a lot.
I am aware that you must first press Ctr+Alt+Shift+K to set the "keyword shortcut", then you can press Shift+K on an in dividual picture to add/remove it.
I am in Library module, Loupe view when I use this feature.

expected behaviour: when pressing Shift+K, keyword is added/removed and a small popup is displayed. Popup similar to pressing "P" or "U", giving "Flag as Pick" or "Remove Flag".

actual behaviour: the shortcut keyword is added or removed but I see that only if I have the "keywording" panel open. There is no popup.
If I do not have the "keywording" panel open, I get no feedback at all.


additional information:
To my knowledge, Lightroom Classic keyboard shortcuts are documented in https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/keyboard-shortcuts.html

I had a chat conversation with an agent on 2025-05-11 (case number ADB-39878980-K4J6)
in which the agent wrote: "in Lightroom Classic, Shift+K is the shortcut for "Toggle between Full Screen with Menubar, Full Screen, and Normal screen mode". If Shift+K is not working, there might be a conflict with another shortcut."
I do not find that feature in above list of keyboard shortcuts. If it is a new addition, it is a conflict with the existing feature. But I am not convinced that this new feature really exists, it would be a mixture of Ctrl + Shift + F ("Switch between Normal and full-screen, hide panels") and F ("Cycle screen modes")


Appeal:
Please bring back the traditional behaviour of Shift+K (add/remove keyword AND display informative popup about the action) which greatly improves the speed of working with a set of pictures.

4 replies

Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
May 13, 2025 12:54 PM UTC

The team has reviewed and logged a bug for the issue. Thanks for the report. 

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Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Participant
May 12, 2025 6:36 AM UTC

Note that I tried my best to report this in "bugs", I even switched to Edge when the click would not work in Firefox due to a javascript problem (of the form). I am disappointed to see that it now appears under "discussion". 

 

When I read this posting correctly: P: Do I post in Discussions or Bugs? - Adobe Community - 13691887 it seems that more people have this problem and it is not a user problem but rather of the discussion page. So please dear forum moderators, move this to "bugs" (I cannot).

 

Thanks so far to the additional information @johnrellis 

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johnrellis
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May 12, 2025 2:49 AM UTC

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'the agent wrote: "in Lightroom Classic, Shift+K is the shortcut for "Toggle between Full Screen with Menubar, Full Screen, and Normal screen mode". If Shift+K is not working, there might be a conflict with another shortcut."'

 

The support agent is wrong (an unfortunately common occurrence).  Shift K is assigned to the command Metadata > Toggle Shortcut Keyword:

 

 

The agent was apparently thinking of the command Window > Screen Mode > Next Screen Mode, which is assigned to Shift F, not Shift K:

 

 

 

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johnrellis
Legend
May 12, 2025 3:55 AM UTC

@Rikk Flohr: Photography, please consider moving to Bugs.

 

The bezel notification displayed by Toggle Shortcut Keyword was present through LR 12.1 but disappeared in LR 12.2 and later.  See the attached screen recording.

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