topic Why doesn't the keyboard shortcut work? in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Why doesn't the keyboard shortcut work?

-_- — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 04:31:50 GMT

Hello. I want to repeatedly copy, paste, and move points, but the keyboard shortcut to copy points (Ctrl+C) doesn't work.

When I click the "Copy" button on the toolbar, the points are copied, the "Paste" button becomes colored, and it's ready to paste. However, when I press the "Ctrl+C" key that is assigned to the "Copy" button, the colored "Paste" button simply becomes grayed out, and I can't paste.

Clicking the ribbon every time is time-consuming, so how can I get this keyboard shortcut to work?

Re: Why doesn't the keyboard shortcut work?

-_- — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 05:08:01 GMT

After copying the points, I accidentally pasted them into a text editor, and the following was copied:
(It's long, so I've omitted it.)
I don't want to do this, I just want to copy and paste the points like I did in ArcMap. How can I do that?

<ArcGIS Type="Editing"><ArrayOfPropertySet xsi:type='typens:ArrayOfPropertySet' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:typens='http://www.esri.com/schemas/ArcGIS/3.2.0'><PropertySet xsi:type='typens:PropertySet'><PropertyArray xsi:type='typens:ArrayOfPropertySetProperty'><PropertySetProperty xsi:type='typens:PropertySetProperty'><Key>DDF243D9-3B2C-4AB5-A4B1-B2CEBF93BE5D_ClassName</Key><Value xsi:type='xs:string'>Layer Name</Value></PropertySetProperty><PropertySetProperty xsi:type='typens:PropertySetProperty'><Key>11F9004D-8F65-4AA9-9FF8-B58B46626042_LayerID</Key><Value xsi:type='xs:int'>358</Value></PropertySetProperty><PropertySetProperty xsi:type='typens:PropertySetProperty'><Key>860C3910-2EC2-4FF6-91AB-67ED263F364D_ExtrusionType</Key><Value xsi:type='xs:int'>0</Value></PropertySetProperty><PropertySetProperty xsi:type='typens:PropertySetProperty'><Key>8FD48339-FFD5-4BE7-82BB-1093886A11A9_ExtrusionHeight</Key><Value xsi:type='xs:double'>1</Value></PropertySetProperty><PropertySetProperty xsi:type='typens:PropertySetProperty'><Key>451775A0-9870-43EE-9CA5-4961BC9D1009_ExtrusionMetersPerZ</Key><Value xsi:type='xs:double'>1</Value></PropertySetProperty><PropertySetProperty xsi:type='typens:PropertySetProperty'><Key>74C8FBBC-AACB-427C-9E81-1007021C28D6_TypeOfFeature</Key><Value xsi:type='xs:int'>0</Value></PropertySetProperty><PropertySetProperty xsi:type='typens:PropertySetProperty'><Key>F2FDAACA-FC9E-4336-896F-638832D1B7E0_ShapeName</Key><Value xsi:type='xs:string'>Shape</Value>

Re: Why doesn't the keyboard shortcut work?

DanPatterson — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 06:06:01 GMT

Keyboard shortcuts for editing—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

ctrl-c and ctrl-v are for tables

see Move in the above link or review other editing shortcuts there as appropriate

Re: Why doesn't the keyboard shortcut work?

-_- — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 06:29:51 GMT

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/editing/copy-and-paste-using-the-clipboard.htm

Copy selected features

On the Edit ribbon tab, click Copy in the Clipboard group, or press Ctrl+C.
The features and their attribute values are copied to the clipboard. The selected features remain in the map.

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This is what I want to do.

Re: Why doesn't the keyboard shortcut work?

RichardHowe — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 08:35:37 GMT

Copy and paste in ArcGIS Pro, like a lot of things are now contextual. So where you click anywhere in between your copy action and your paste action it matters and affects what is available.

So if you highlight a point feature and click ctrl + c it will copy it as you observe. If you immediately use ctrl + v it will paste it back into the same layer.

I suspect the behaviour you are seeing is because you are clicking somewhere in between your ctrl + c action and highlighting something different in ArcGIS Pro as the potential target (e.g. selecting a layer in table of contents - at which point the paste button will grey as you can't paste points into the toc, only layers and groups). If you want to specify where the points are pasted you need a paste special which is ctrl + alt + v