Keyboard not cycling through the tools

[larry45]

Never seen this before, I'm clicking on o or m keys, and it's not cycling through the tools. I thought it might be my keyboard, so I tried another keyboard same thing.

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

See if pressing the Shift key in addition to the letter cycles the tools.

If it does there's a preference in photoshop for that.

Photoshop CC (mac) or Edit (windows) Preferences>Tools>Use Shift Key for Tool Switch.

[larry45]

Thanks Jeff! Yes I remember that preference form 15 years ago.

You are right.

My next question is how did that get checked? I have not gone into that preference area in long long time.

[Jeff Arola]

Hard to say, but usually that is the default in photoshop, unless the user unchecks it.

Maybe the photoshop preferences have been reset at some point?