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Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 22, 2024
Question

Keyboard Shortcuts stop working

  • November 22, 2024
  • 1 reply
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Hi everyone,

I've been meaning to discuss this odd behavior that I started noticing in 2024 version, and still a problem in 2025:

Randomly, a press of keyboard shortcuts keys will fail to trigger the command. If I go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts, then click OK, the keyboard shortcuts will wake up and start functioning. The next InDesign document I open, however, and the keyboard shortcuts stop functioning again. 

I tried making a differently-named custom keyboard shortcuts, but it makes no difference to this odd behavior.

Anyone else experience this?

1 reply

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
November 22, 2024

Never had problems like this on Windows. 

 

Participant
March 19, 2025

I have this issue with Dreamweaver on Windows.   I thought it was my laptop but have since switched to a new one and it's still happening.  Rebooting fixes the issue but then it'll eventually start happening again. 

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
March 19, 2025

@rachel_5839

 

What's the make and model of the laptop?