This applies to Scrivener 3.5.1 (latest)
Indent Left hotkeys (WIN-ALT-Left Arrow) used to indent selected paragraph to the left. Now, it resizes the window to the left. I think there is a similar Windows hotkey combination that causes the same behavior, which, of course, I cannot locate ATM.
This occurs on two different machines, one running Windows 10, the other Windows 11.
Also, I cannot seem to get to the hotkey menu to edit…it is grayed out.
Your thoughts would be apprecaited
Sure your Editor has focus?
The Win+Alt+Left/Right shortcuts are used as global window management shortcuts by Windows and haven’t been in Scrivener’s default set for a while—in fact default shortcuts for the Increase/Decrease Indent were removed several years ago because they were just duplicating the actions (and shortcuts) of Move Right/Left in a text editor context. So fresh installations won’t see those, but if you’ve had Scrivener for a while the older shortcuts would stick around unless they were deliberately reset, to avoid wiping any custom shortcuts you’d made.
In the Keyboard tab of File ▸ Options, you can filter for Indent to clear or change the shortcuts for these commands.
Additionally, the Edit ▸ Move ▸ Right/Left commands (labeled “Move Text Right/Left” in the keyboard shortcut list) work exactly the same as Increase/Decrease Paragraph when applied in the text editor, so the shortcuts for those commands will also work. By default those are Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Right/Left.
You can click Reset All to update the keyboard shortcuts to the current defaults, but of course that will lose any custom settings. If you’re unsure, you can use the Export button to save your current shortcuts to a file that you can import at any time—so you could export, Reset and see what’s changed, and re-import your old settings if you prefer.
I will give your suggestions a try.
Thank you.
I reset the shortcuts, lost a couple as you had warned, then rebuilt new shortcuts. Once muscle memory catches up, all will be good.
Thank you for you help.
Pat