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shi

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
April 19, 2020
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When I search (command-shift-f) I sometimes inadvertently press a form fields shortcut (never sure what that exactly is). Is there anyway to disable that shortcult (form fields)?

I suspect the answer is no, or not in a way that is worth the time and trouble.

Thanks.

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ls_rbls

Community Expert

No there is no built-in capability to do that.

I actually spent sometime consulting the Enterprise Toolkit about setting Preferences via registry or Plists, and unfortunately there is no feature that allows to customize shortcuts like that.

However, if it helps in your situation, go to Edit , Preferences, General --->>> "Use single-key accelerators to access tools" and tick this checkbox.

Checking this option displays a tooltip with the name of the tool and the keyboard shortcut associated with that tool when you hover the mouse pointer over it for a second or so.

See here:

https://answers.acrobatusers.com/Can-I-create-custom-keyboard-shortcuts-in-Acrobat-q210673.aspx

Since this is a very weird issue, I have to ask if this is happening with every other application installed in your macOS?

If it is affecting other apps systemwide, maybe updating drivers for the keyboard and mouse pad would be a convenient approach, as well as inspecting the keyboard keys visually, dust them, clean them and rule oput if a bad key has been getting stuck without your knowledge.

I see this happen a lot with computers because of users not porperly performing the adequate maintenance of their hardware.

If it is only happening with Acrobat, can you specify or show another screenshot of what exactly opens up? I want to see if this has something to do with where the mouse pointer is positioned at the time that you execute the keyboard shortcut combination.

There is a lockable preference via Plist in the Enterprise Toolkit that shows how to disable the automatic switching to Edit Text & Images when you have the document opened with the "Prepare Form" tool.

J

JIPNETAuthor

Inspiring

I lost the previous message so I will be quicker now.,

No, this is unique to Acrobat.

The confusion may come from the different shortcuts I have in word for advanced find and from the fact that in my Word command-Shift-F there trigges footnotes (by design: I set these up in word commands). I sometimes hit the wrong combo of keys that opens the either the Prepare Forms window or the Edit document window (not sure which: I will watch this next) when trying to advance search in Acrobat. the lockable preference is a good idea; I've never used the Enterprise Toolkit, but can explore it.

I do have single key accelerators enabled. But no single key stroke seems to cause the issue, so it must be a combo. do you know what shortcut exists to Prepare Forms or Edit Document? If I knew that I would at least avoid both, since I rarely use either command.

thanks for the detailed response.

ls_rbls

Community Expert

HI,

Sorry for my delay in replying back.

Yes is a combo . Try CTRL+SHIFT+7 it will open up the "Perpare Form" tool to edit text and images, add form field objects, etc. Hit the combo again to toggle it off.

JR Boulay

Community Expert

To be able to disable a shortcut, you need a shortcut editor.
Does it makes sense?

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

J

JIPNETAuthor

Inspiring

Right. or the built-in capacity to alter shortcuts. There is none? That's what I am asking. I wouldn't want to mess with the main elements of the application.

ls_rbls

Community Expert

Here is a list of all keyboard shortcuts:

Adobe Reader:

https://shortcutkeys.net/adobe-reader-keyboard-shortcuts/

Adobe Acrobat User Guide:

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/keyboard-shortcuts.html

Complete User Guide: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/user-guide.html

J

JIPNETAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks. I wasn't asking for the keyboard shortcuts, but how to disable the form field editor shortcut (which I still haven't been able to locate in these documents or to reproduce: i seem to produce it at random when pressing command-shift-f to search a pdf)

ls_rbls

Community Expert

Unless you edited your post, I swear you said (command+f) .

I don't remember seeing command+shift+F. Maybe I am reading too fast...

That is why I posted the keyboard shortcuts for you to see if something is misconfigured at the macOS end, like a keyboard layout or localization settings, for example.

You're not suppopsed to to get the behavior fo what you're describing. command+f in Acrobat using macOS opens the Finder to search for words, etc. See the official guidance here: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/searching-pdfs.html

And according to Apple's official guidance on Command-F: also Finds items in a document or open a Find window. See here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236

But you're saying command-shift+f which is different than shift + command+f and maybe you may also have to check if this is happening in combination with a mouse gesture.

Shift-Command-F: Open the Recents window, showing all of the files you viewed or changed recently

I don't see in Apple guidance anything like command-shift+f