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dsochor1-Visitor
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December 23, 2014
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Change keyboard shortcuts in Prime?

  • December 23, 2014
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Is it possible to change the keyboard shortcuts in MathCAD Prime? I'd like to make the match MathCAD 14.

Best answer by RichardJ

Sorry, but that is not possible. Even if there were a way to do it I'm not sure it would be a good idea. If you changed one it would probably break another, so you would have to change that one too, which would probably break another, etc etc. Your shortcuts would then also not match anything in the help files.

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RichardJ19-TanzaniteAnswer
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December 23, 2014

Sorry, but that is not possible. Even if there were a way to do it I'm not sure it would be a good idea. If you changed one it would probably break another, so you would have to change that one too, which would probably break another, etc etc. Your shortcuts would then also not match anything in the help files.

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dsochor1-VisitorAuthor
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December 29, 2014

Thank you Richard for your reply.

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athurin1-Visitor
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January 6, 2015

Hi Daniel,

I suggested customisable key bindings on the "product ideas" section ( http://communities.ptc.com/ideas/4106 ). Don't hesitate to vote for it, and maybe with time, developpers will include it in a future release.

Regarding the help issue and "one shortcut breaks another", I don't think this is really relevant. Lots of video games have customisable keyboard shortcuts, and they manage it both in help and in application to avoid duplicates. It may required skilled developpers, but there are obviously solutions to these issues, as it was solved in other programs before.

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
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January 6, 2015

Daniel Sochor wrote:

Is it possible to change the keyboard shortcuts in MathCAD Prime? I'd like to make the match MathCAD 14.

PTC is not even able to provide meaningful keyboard shortcuts for foreign keyboards. Sometimes by chance you find an awkward key combination which would do what you want but ever so often for things constantly used (some programming features) there is no shortcut at all and you know what that means - grabbing the item from the ribbon menu which is so cumbersome and time consuming. Italian users have told here not to be able to insert a simple caret (^) using the appropriate key on their keyboard - thats crazy indeed.

So I definitely would prefer to be able to (re)define keyboard shortcuts. M$ Word sure has more shortcuts than Prime and we are able to redefine them without problems, get warned when we overwrite an existing one, etc. Implementing that feature should not be that difficult for a decent proamming team but I have my doubts if the ressources which PZT devotes to the development of Prime would allow to tackle that task. Given how Prime is flagged they may have different priorities.

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    athurin1-Visitor
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    January 6, 2015

    Werner Exinger wrote:

    Italian users have told here not to be able to insert a simple caret (^) using the appropriate key on their keyboard.

    Same problem with a French keyboard. Technical support recommended to use AltGr+9 for exponentiation. Lucky for us, there is a second shortcut available, which is compatible with my keyboard. Lucky me...

    Werner Exinger wrote:

    So I definitely would prefer to be able to (re)define keyboard shortcuts. M$ Word sure has more shortcuts than Prime and we are able to redefine them without problems, get warned when we overwrite an existing one, etc. Implementing that feature should not be that difficult for a decent proamming team but I have my doubts if the ressources which PZT devotes to the development of Prime would allow to tackle that task. Given how Prime is flagged they may have different priorities.

    I don't use shortcuts in MS Word, so I can't say, but a lot of video games do, and warn about duplicates, etc. And if they don't, I usually curse them for not telling me before I spent money on their crappy software.

    If I was mean, I would say that assuming that the whole world uses US keyboards is increadibly pretentious, and almost reason enough not to buy the software (if they dont want me to be able to use it, why should I give them my money ?).

    Anyway, Like Werner says, it is probably at the bottom of the priority list, considering the many and significantly more problematic issues with Mathcad Prime...

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