I have recently upgraded to ArcMap 10.4.1 and one of the keyboard shortcuts I had in my previous version does not work. It is the Clip tool - where I create a new polygon and clip it out from the larger polygon it was created in. Previously, I assigned a

MartinRyan · ‎07-21-2016

Keyboard shortcut that previously worked does not now work in ArcMap 10.4.1

MartinRyan · ‎07-26-2016

ISSUE RESOLVED:

We discovered that a setting in:

Editor toolbar > Options > Versioning was the issue for this particular problem.

The "Automatically save changes after each edit" box was CHECKED - this is apparently by default. With this option checked, Arc10.4.1 does not respond the the "Clip..." keyboard shortcut I assigned.

When I uncheck the "Automatically save changes after each edit" box and save my .mxd, all is well - all my keyboard shortcuts work as before, even the "Clip..." command - it immediately brings up the "Clip" window as before.

Thanks, Dan for your efforts.

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DanPatterson_Retired · ‎07-21-2016

hard to figure out the question since the title is truncated.

So I assume that arc* won't let you assign the old shortcut? what is using it now? perhaps you could elaborate a bit more

MartinRyan · ‎07-22-2016

Dan,

Thanks for replying - ArcMap does not seem to be saving the shortcut I assign. This applies only to the "Clip" command. The others I created - "Save Edits", "Merge", etc- work fine and as they did in 10.3 - "Clip" does not. I create the polygon and when I press the shortcut key, nothing happens. However, when I click the Editor toolbar menu, I see the assigned shortcut listed, and if I select it there, it works. The "Clip" window opens with the options to preserve or discard the portion that intersects.

So, it is just the "Clip" command whose keyboard shortcut that doesn't seem to work. (I do very simple editing, and only have a few shortcuts - I'm not sure if any others are affected.

DanPatterson_Retired · ‎07-22-2016

I guess you need to specify what shortcut you are using in case it isn't an obvious duplicate

MartinRyan · ‎07-22-2016

I'm using F2 as the shortcut - it worked fine in 10.3 but not now

DanPatterson_Retired · ‎07-22-2016

Keyboard shortcuts for working with tables—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop is start editing a cell

but have a cruise here as well

Keyboard shortcuts in ArcMap—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

MartinRyan · ‎07-25-2016

Attached is an updated and more detailed explanation of my original question:

DanPatterson_Retired · ‎07-25-2016

I found at least one other instance of F2 being mapped already

F2 renames the selected item.

MartinRyan · ‎07-25-2016

Thanks for responding, Dan. Do you mean that F2 is assigned to another function other than clipping? I had F2 assigned to the clip function in Arc 10.3 (which worked fine) and have also tried to assign it to other keys in 10.4 - it does not work as it did before. I've reset all keyboard shortcuts and reassigned them - still no success with clipping via a keyboard shortcut

DanPatterson_Retired · ‎07-25-2016

F2 was assigned, it was in that last link I originally sent. Did you try to assign it to something else that is not on the assignment list?