P: Keyboard shortcut for All Photographs

I use Ctrl/Cmd + F all the time for non-keywords, but it has a couple of issues with keywords:

- There is in general no way to get exact match when searching for keywords via the Filter bar (Ctrl/Cmd + F).  "Contains Words" usually gets closest, but "Keywords Contains Words San Jose" will match a photo containing the two keywords "Mission" and "San Jose" or the single keyword "Mission San Jose".

- You may not save keystrokes compared to the Keyword List panel, if you have to use the mouse to choose "Keywords" and "Contains Words" from the dropdowns.

(Note that I use a plugin-supplied keyboard shortcut for All Photographs frequently and voted for this feature request many years ago.)

That's neat if you're looking for a keyword.   But still faster to get 'All photographs' and then ctl-f for keyword (or filename or whatever)

"I often select all photos in lightroom in order to find a particular photo or set of photos with a ... filename.   It would be GREAT to have a keyboard shortcut to do this."

Unfortunately, there is no keyboard shortcut for selecting All Photographs. As a workaround to this lack of basic functionality, you could use the Any Source plugin or follow the scripting directions in this post: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/keyboard-touch-to-return-to-all-photographs?t...

"I often select all photos in lightroom in order to find a particular photo or set of photos with a keyword"

As Yves indicated, you can show all photos containing a keyword with these steps:

1. In the Keyword List panel, type the keyword you want in the search box. 

2. Hover the mouse to the right of the keyword and click the right-arrow. This will automatically select All Photos and then filter those photos by exactly that keyword:

I often select all photos in lightroom in order to find a particular photo or set of photos with a keyword or filename.   It would be GREAT to have a keyboard shortcut to do this.

I absolutely agree that a shortcut is needed for "All Photographs."  Searching all my photos with a filter is something I do quite often, and it requires too many steps.   I like JonathanB's suggestion that ‘Command A’ to take you straight to All Photographs, by analogy to 'Command B', which takes you to your target collection.

Thanks, and I now see AnySource is one of a range of interesting sounding PlugIns you offer on your own website. They look like a great resource and a potential immediate workaround but I'm glad you agree it would be preferable if it was built into Lightroom itself.

I agree entirely that there should be built-in keyboard shortcuts for all the sources.  More generally, LR's support for keyboard shortcuts is weak, and it would be much better if every command was able to be assigned a shortcut and LR supported easy assignment of shortcuts.   The Any Source plugin gets the problem solved, but it's not nearly as convenient to set up than if it were built-in.

This forum is used for product feedback of all sorts and many come here looking for immediate workarounds and solutions.

Thanks to John Ellis for his recommendation of the AnySource PlugIn - I may give it a try.  
However I was under the impression that this was the place to leave Lightroom Feature Requests. Whilst I understand the value of third party PlugIns and appreciate the recommendation, such a solution would be a workaround and I would still like to suggest that this could be built into Lightroom itself. I'm no software writer but I can't imagine this would be a difficult to thing to implement - a quick and easy way to offer better functionality. There is already a keyboard command for Go to Quick/Target Collection and it just seems completely logical that there should also be a command for Go to All Photographs. I see the merged conversation is from 2 years ago (and I also remember putting in similar requests when LR was first launched) so I guess there is not much popular support for this feature request!