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August 11, 2025
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How do I cancel the shortcut keys Ctrl+F2 and Shift+F2 when text is selected?

  • August 11, 2025
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Shift+F2 should be used to search for the next occurrence.
I don't know what Ctrl+F2 does.

 

I don't need them, I want to set them for other uses.
If I don't cancel them, my newly set shortcut keys won't work.

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Anantha Prabu G
Legend
August 11, 2025

Shift + F2 is currently assigned to “Find Next” in InDesign, and Ctrl + F2 doesn’t have a default function in most versions.
If you want to use those shortcuts for something else, you’ll need to remove or reassign the existing “Find Next” shortcut in Edit → Keyboard Shortcuts. Otherwise, InDesign will keep triggering the original command instead of your new one.

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Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 11, 2025

When you press those keys in order to put them into a shortcut; if already used, it says so.

Mike Witherell
Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 11, 2025

InDesign > Edit menu > Keyboard Shortcuts

First make a new custom set of your Keyboard Shortcuts.

Next, find the command you want to make a shortcut for.

Or re-assign an existing used shortcut to command you want to trigger.

Notice that when editing a shortcut, there is a small field labeled as the Context field, where you can limit a shortcut to only work with text, for example.

Mike Witherell
dublove
dubloveAuthor
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August 11, 2025

Hi @Mike Witherell 

Do you know where to cancel the default Ctrl+F2 and Shift+F2?