I’m trying to make a keyboard shortcut for Edit > Transformations > Make Uppercase using the tool in File > Options > Keyboard. However, when I try to search for the command in the Filter field, it never finds the Make Uppercase command to make a shortcut. I’ve tried every combination of words I can think of, but it just doesn’t appear. Is this working as intended (you don’t want that command to have a shortcut), or an oversight.
This would be a very useful command to be able to make a shortcut out of, especially in screenwriting, where you are capitalizing words a lot as part of the format in scene description. It would really useful as a toolbar button as well (Final Draft, for instance, has a toolbar button for this function, I believe).
Ordinarily I’d suggest an accelerator key shortcut: Alt-e t u as a neat way to run your command without mouse clicks.
Unfortunately, the edit menu has conflicting accelerator keys on the t and on the u:
Cut and Transformations
Make Uppercase and Convert Quotes to Straight Quotes.
Conflicting accelerator key sequences fail frustratingly and are of no value to the Scrivener user. Are the same sequences deployed on Mac version? In translated Windows versions? I hope the team will consider these to be bugs and resolve them all, using numerals in the sequences if necessary.
The Mac doesn’t use accelerator keys, so it’s something the the Windows guys have missed. Yours is the first report I’ve seen in these forums bringing up these conflicts.
The other point is that on the Mac, the Command key turns the whole keyboard into a set of shortcuts, and it can be used in combination with any or all of the Opt, Ctrl and Shift keys which gives a wide spectrum of possibilities. Also keyboard shortcuts are generally handled through System Preferences, not individual apps; I personally only know 1 app which has its own shortcut system; it lets you also use more than one character as part of the shortcut … I assign colours like red to Command-RR, black to Cmd-BB and so on.
Thanks Mr. X. So I can’t invoke the goal of Mac/PC version consistency on this one. It’s up to the developers to choose a trigger key on the Windows side, and that key will function only if it’s unique on the submenu. So worth choosing with care, particularly when there’s no option for a user-modifiable shortcut.
Interesting to see the replies on this, thank you. I switch back and forth from Windows to Mac Scrivener, and I also use the built-in Command functionality frequently. Anyway, hope they add Make Uppercase as a shortcut option, it would be very useful.
Consider the accelerator keys for Select, Sort, Spelling, and Speech. All S’s, on the Edit menu. It is possible to make the accelerator keys all unique in QT, I know.
Personally, I don’t consider an “alt” sequence necessary for Cut or Copy or Paste. Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, and Ctrl-V are well-established as shortcuts for those.
