Style shortcuts (i.e opt-cmd-1) supersede ctrl-opt-cmd-1 in Scriv 3

Hi,

I’m trying to establish personalized Scrivener 3 shortcuts through the Keyboard tab of System Preferences (as I did in Scrivener 2), but when I use the shortcuts I have defined as ctrl-opt-cmd-1, ctrl-opt-cmd-2, etc (for changing the highlight color), the style shortcuts of Scrivener 3, which are labelled opt-cmd-1, opt-cmd-2, etc are implemented instead. I don’t see any CTRL-opt-cmd shortcuts in the Format menu. Am I missing something?

Thanks, and thanks for continuing to update Scrivener, which I have always found to be wonderful.

Robert

Hi Robert,

Sorry for missing this. Have you figured this out yet? Do other custom shortcuts work? I’m wondering if, if you have Scrivener 2 still installed, they might be going there, instead. The thing to do is check that the keyboard shortcuts are actually appearing in the menus - my guess is that they are not, in which case macOS is failing to install them for some reason.

All the best,
Keith

Hi Keith,

I could never get ctrl-opt-cmd-1 (or any ctrl-opt-cmd-number) to work for the highlighters, although they did appear in the menus. (And I do have Scriv 2 still installed.) In Scriv 3, ctrl-opt-cmd-1 would always implement the opt-cmd-1 (or opt-cmd-number) shortcut for formatting. I finally switched to ctrl-cmd-number, and they work.

Relatedly, as with Scriv 2, in Scriv 3 the user-defined highlighting shortcuts don’t work until I open the Format > Highlight menu. Once I’ve opened that, they work as expected for the rest of my session.

Thanks for the reply.

Best,
Robert