You can also switch the sense of the fn + function key in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard. You must hold down the fn key when you press one of the function keys for the program to see a “normal” function key press. Apple has added their own system-wide actions to the function keys, which makes them inconvenient to use in an application. Other default keyboard shortcuts use the function keys (F1-F12, or F1-F19 on the numeric keypad version). Rather than completely eliminating these shortcuts, we thought it best to leave them in, making them available for those who can take advantage of them. For example, View > Undo View Change is mapped to the Home key, but that key does not exist on laptop keyboards. Some of the default keyboard shortcuts use keys available only on the keyboard with a numeric keypad. I mentioned that some of the default keyboard shortcuts are not optimal.
Please limit your suggestions to the changes that should be universally available. You can always add these special assignments to your own copy of Rhino. You can also define your own set of keyboard shortcuts, which we discuss below, so you need not mention any keyboard shortcuts that are specific to your use of Rhino for Mac. Please make suggestions for improvements to the default keyboard shortcut set that you feel should be available to everyone by posting your suggestions in this support thread.
These keyboard shortcuts should be both useful and natural for Mac users. Rhino for Mac will always have a default set of keyboard shortcuts that cannot be changed.
Many of these are not optimal for the Mac, but we can consider the current keyboard assignments as a discussion starting point. Volunteering to "pay forward" to return help I've received in the Microsoft user community.Windows Rhino has many keyboard shortcuts and, for the most part, Rhino for Mac has adopted the same keyboard shortcuts. If AutoCorrect is available it would be available through the Proofing Options under the File menu. In particular, the Alt key triggers a keyboard step-through of the Ribbon and menus. Want to avoid both the simple Alt- and Ctrl- combinations because many of them also have defined uses. However Alt- Ctrl- Ctrl-Alt Shift-Alt- and Ctrl-Shift-Alt- combinations with letters are all available. You would not want to reassign the function keys (or at least I would not want to) because they all have useful assignments in Word already. Macros are for manipulating documents, or parts of them, not for typing text in Word.
Macros are not enabled in the Starter edition, but even if they were, you would not want to use them for this purpose. See Automated Boilerplate Using Microsoft Word You can assign a keyboard shortcut to that, but I don't think the ability to do this is enabled in the Starter edition.
The two methods that come to mind are AutoCorrect and AutoText.ĪutoCorrect automatically replaces a code word with the text, for instance, "twimc" with "To whom it may concern:" It does this when you press the space bar or Enter, or punctuation.ĪutoText is used primarily for longer items and is stored as a "Building Block" in a template. It also depends on which functions are available in the Starter edition. It depends on the length and type of phrase.