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Anonymous
October 21, 2011
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How can I get the F8 and F9 function keys in FM 10.0 to work like they did in FM 7.1?

  • October 21, 2011
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We just purchased the Adobe Technical Communications Suite 10.0 and have FrameMaker 10.0 installed. What's frustrating is that F8 and F9 work "sometimes" to provide a shortcut to text formatting and paragraph formatting, but they don't work consistently. Is this a bug? I need a fix that would get them to work consistently. (Alt+OPC to format text with the default font is another key combination that works, but it doesn't work consistently.)

thanks in advance!

ChristyG

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Matt-Tech Comm Tools
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Matt-Tech Comm ToolsCommunity Expert
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October 21, 2011

Not a direct answer to your question, but you can use the Control-8 and Control-9 keys to get the same functionality.

-Matt

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant
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Anonymous
October 21, 2011

Thanks for your reply, Matt, but neither Control+8 or Control+9 work for me either.

I've looked at the keyboard shortcuts in the online help. There are several that don't work for me, but there are a couple that do. When there is a shortcut that won't work for me, the words, "Not Applicable" appear in the status bar.

These Don't work for me:

Apply a paragraph format: Esc q p, F9, Control+9

Apply a character format: Esc q c, F8, Control+8

Apply default font to formatted characters: Esc o c p (opens the CMS Preferences dialog instead - weird!)

These Do work for me:

Repeat last action: F6

Start paragraph anywhere: Esc j Shift+a

Start paragraph at top of page: Esc j Shift+p

Apply default font to formatted characters:  Alt+ocp from FrameMaker 7.1 works for me

(There's others that work for me, but the one's I'd most likely use via keystrokes are listed above.)

regards,

Christy

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Anonymous
October 21, 2011

Of course, as soon as I replied to Matt, F8, F9, Control+8, and Control+9 started working for me with noooooo problem.

I think when I was testing other keystrokes using the Esc key, it might have cleared something up. I'll cross my fingers and hope they remain working.

regards,

ChristyG

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