"Alt" keyboard shortcuts do not work properly suddenly

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Hello,
since a couple of days my "Alt" keyboard shortcuts do not work properly anymore. With most of the shortcuts, either the ribbon opens or nothing happens. For example, for "Confirm and Translate to Next Fuzzy Match", I have defined the key "Alt + F" and used it for a long time. Now, when I press "Alt+F", the menu "File" opens. I find that really annoying. Has something been changed in studio again? Because I have noticed this behavior in the past with new versions of Studio too.
Thank you, if you could suggest a good solution. Because the Alt-Hotkeys are the most ergonomic (much better than finger breaking "Shift-Ctrl" or others), but with the ribbon toolbar most of them got lost. Is it possible, to "switch off" the ribbon shortcuts? Because most of them are not real shortcuts anyway. For example, Alt+H+S1 or Alt+H+Z32 is in my opinion definitely not an abbreviation.
Thank you
Adrian

Paul · Answer

Hello Adrian, 
 
These are all reserved for the ribbon and are just part of the way the application works. You cannot switch them off. I'm not sure why anything you customised would suddenly stop working... perhaps it's the impact of a windows update maybe? Maybe someone else can offer some advice if they have experienced this before? 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Daniel Fransson · Answer

Hi, 
 
Happens for me to, and I think Microsoft is the original perpetrator, who came up with the ribbon design in the first place. A real productivity killer in my opinion. Different sizes of icons, some with text labels underneath the command, some with text labels next to the command, some without any text labels at all, you have to hover with the mouse to see the shortcuts etc., etc., etc... I am quite confident that the brain reads a uniformly formatted list from top to bottom (i.e. a menu) a lot quicker than a ribbon, for which you have to move your eyes up and and down and sideways, and try to connect the dots between icons and text labels... I hope SDL would have the courage to re-introduce the menu design :) 
 
Anyway, you could try to add the commands to the toolbar, then you will have Alt + <number> keyboard shortcuts for those commands. But the toolbar has traditionally worked so-so in Studio. Haven't really experimented with it too much in 2017, so it might be better now. 
 
Autohotkey is also quite handy customise shortcuts, but I am not sure if it will override the letters reserved for the ribbon. I think it might do.

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"Alt" keyboard shortcuts do not work properly suddenly