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Schaumermaldann
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August 31, 2017
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mass-assign title to pictures

  • August 31, 2017
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When I'm back from vacation my lightroom workflow starts with assigning titles to all my pictures. This is partly annoying since every 10 times I miss to click into the title field and start typing without this field having the focus. As a result my key strokes are taken as keyboard commands and undesired functions are executed. One solution could be to disable the keyboard shortcuts during this process. Another could be to have a keyboard shortcut for setting the focus to the title field. Any idea?

- Klemens

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Correct answer Schaumermaldann

I found a solution on my own: type in the title and press Ctrl+right arrow without typing Enter before. This leaves the focus in the title field and jumps to the next picture.

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Schaumermaldann
SchaumermaldannAuthorCorrect answer
Participant
September 1, 2017

I found a solution on my own: type in the title and press Ctrl+right arrow without typing Enter before. This leaves the focus in the title field and jumps to the next picture.

johnrellis
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August 31, 2017

Another could be to have a keyboard shortcut for setting the focus to the title field.

There's no way to do this with LR directly -- it doesn't let you reassign keyboard shortcuts and the TranslatedStrings mechanism doesn't have any commands for moving to Title.

However, you could use a shortcut utility like AutoHotkey on Windows -- it could send Cmd+K followed by 12 tabs.  I think there are similar utilities on Mac that can send keystrokes to apps.  (The facility in Mac System Preferences won't work here.)