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SFares14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
March 11, 2020
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Control+shift+J

  • March 11, 2020
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Hello,

i have the latest Mathcad 15 that i came with Prime 6.  In the old Mathcad 15 I used to be able to do  "Control+shift+J" to create brackets around the variable.  I am having trouble with it with the new mathcad 15.

 

Is this feature still there? i assume it is. i noticed when i do it it launches another software called cisco Jabber.

 

Thanks,

Sam 

Best answer by LucMeekes

Ah, Now I understand.

You've got a hot-key [CTRL-SHFT-J] defined in Windows and connected to the launching of Cisco Jabber. Remove that hot-key connection and you should be done.

 

Success!
Luc

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VipulT16-Pearl
16-Pearl
March 11, 2020

@SFares 

 

Please refer the following thread, seems to be similar issue what you are facing.

https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad/The-feature-of-quot-Ctrl-Shift-J-quot-in-MathCAD-is-missing-in/m-p/426487#M167343%3F&posno=5&q=ctrl+shift+j&source=search

 

 

 

 

 

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SFares14-AlexandriteAuthor
14-Alexandrite
March 11, 2020

i am trying to use this feature in mathcad 15 not prime.  

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LucMeekes23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
March 11, 2020

Accept that Prime is a beast totally different from 'real' Mathcad.

You can type these '[' and ']' brackets around a variable, but they will not be part of the variable name (as what CTRL-SHFT-J does in Mathcad), but instead you're creating a 1x1 vector with your variable as the only element.

 

If you want to create a variable name with strange characters such a brackets etcetera, type a double quote first, then type all characters you want the variable name to consist of, then delete the quotes.

so first you have  

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then you delete the quotes    

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Then you can assign a value.

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And evaluate

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Note that it's different from the one-element vector

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Success!
Luc

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    LucMeekes23-Emerald IVAnswer
    23-Emerald IV
    March 11, 2020

    Ah, Now I understand.

    You've got a hot-key [CTRL-SHFT-J] defined in Windows and connected to the launching of Cisco Jabber. Remove that hot-key connection and you should be done.

     

    Success!
    Luc

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      SFares14-AlexandriteAuthor
      14-Alexandrite
      March 12, 2020

      Thank you LucMeekes for your detailed answers. You also taught another way of doing the brackets.

       

      Regards,

      Sam

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      LucMeekes23-Emerald IV
      23-Emerald IV
      March 12, 2020

      Hi Sam,

       

      Beware.

      Adding square brackets with CTRL-SHFT-J is not the same as when you add them with CTRL-SHFT-K.

      You can test this out by trying to remove only one of the brackets added with with the J method. You will not succeed (both are removed on the deletion of only one). With the K- method you can add, or delete a single bracket, just the [ or the ].

      But with the K-method you cannot create the more complicated examples that you can make with the J method. (see my screenshot of the help file further below).

       

      Luc

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      Werner_E25-Diamond I
      25-Diamond I
      March 11, 2020

      Your problem has nothing to do with Mathcad.

      Maybe this thread can be of help:

      https://community.cisco.com/t5/cisco-bug-discussions/cscur60925-ability-to-disable-keyboard-shortcuts-in-jabber-for/td-p/2892549

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      SFares14-AlexandriteAuthor
      14-Alexandrite
      March 12, 2020

      Thank you Werner!

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      Fred_Kohlhepp23-Emerald I
      23-Emerald I
      March 12, 2020

      cntrl-shift -j puts the original Mathcad (including 15) into "character mode".  Whatever you type next will be accepted as part of a variable name, whatever that character does in the standard Mathcad editor will not happen.  For example, the left square bracket "[" will usually create a place holder for a vector subscript; in Mathcad (not Prime) a period "." would create a literal subscript in a variable name.  If I wanted a variable with a decimal point in the name ("f.kohl" for example) I could use cntrl-shift-j to leave the decimal in and not sunscript kohl.)

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      LucMeekes23-Emerald IV
      23-Emerald IV
      March 12, 2020

      Hi Fred,

       

      Small mistake. What you describe is [CTRL-SHFT-K], It toggles between normal and 'special' mode that allows you to put symbols like $, . and & in a variale name.

      The [CTRL-SHFT-J] immediately puts square brackets around the selected variable, no matter where within the variable the cursor is. I seem to remember it was named 'chemical notation'. Checked: it's 'chemistry notation':

      LucMeekes_0-1584031241810.png

       

      It took me some time to understand what the OP was describing but after my fist reaction I grasped it.

      Werner took it a little further, stating explicitly (and correctly) that the OP's problem is NOT related to Mathcad, and he pointed to where it might be solved.

       

      Luc

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