I used to use Shift > Option > Command > S to check word frequency. It's no longer working

I’m sure this was the code, bc I have it written down in the Research folder.

Whether this is a standard shortcut or one I created, I am not sure. But it stopped working. I can’t seem to find anything that resembles this in the menu, but it invoked an actual feature of Scrivener.

It’s possibly due to a change in the MacOS, I guess.

Can anyone shed light on why it stopped working for me?

The word frequency data is shown by the Project → Statistics pane. There’s a dropdown for word frequency down at the bottom. I’m not sure it has ever had a Scrivener-supplied shortcut, though.

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I was curious. I found that menu command, and the SHIFT-OPTION-COMMAND-S shortcut was shown on my Scrivener version (latest, AFAIK) pull-down menu. If not working for @Adam_Smashe then I would guess it’s maybe interference with a keyboard short cut setup in macOS Settings or another third party app.

Ah, yes, it’s the shortcut for the Project Statistics pane, not the Word Frequency tab within it.

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Thank you all so much.

I think it must’ve been my own fault (most things are). But I can’t imagine I would’ve created a keyword shortcut that complex.

There was a time when a trilogy I was writing was getting very long, and I was concerned about average sentence length, story length and paragraph length, so I was checking that a lot.

I consider that statistics pane a very nice feature.

And it’s possible I added my own shortcut to it, because now it has ‘Command > 8’ listed there! So I probably forgot that I did that because I haven’t gone to it some time, I could not remember what the name of it was.