What has happened to the Alt+Q keyboard shortcut
Today when reviewing indexed records I was surprised and dismayed to find that Alt+Q no longer initiates a Quality Check. Was a change made that disabled this keyboard shortcut?
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I restarted Chrome on my desktop and the Alt+Q shortcut is working again.
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Hi Jay,
There has been unannounced “retirement” of some indexing shortcuts. Here is a link to a thread I posted a while ago. I guess it was from March 4 of this year.
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Well that is just unfortunate. I wish that they would not do those kinds of things. I have a AHK script that used that shortcut, now I have to click the tool bar, AAARGH. Just another thing to slow down my indexing/reviewing. It was not broken, it did not need to be fixed. Some things should just be left alone.
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It is, and I don’t think it would take much time or effort to fix, but they are on to other ventures.
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Curious thing, Alt+Q still works on my laptop, so maybe there is something else going on here and I jumped the gun thinking that FamilySearch Indexing Support had done something to cause this. I did reboot my desktop today and I have not rebooted my laptop for several days. I could reboot my laptop to see if Alt+Q no longer works on it after the reboot, but I am reluctant to do that. It seems a bit like playing Russian Roulette and I would have shot myself in the foot if it no longer works on the laptop after a reboot. I checked the versions of Chrome that are running on the two systems, the desktop is running a newer version of Chrome (103.0.5060.134) than the laptop is running (103.0.5060.114). It is possible that the source of the problem, which leads to the same dilemma.
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If you’re consistent in how you size and shape your screen (e.g. always full screen, same zoom level) so the toolbar and in particular that icon is a consistent location, you can use AHK mouse commands to click that icon for you.
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Glad to hear that, Jay. I noticed that it wasn’t among the shortcuts I had listed as non-functioning.
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Sorry to leave you hanging on this but Alt-Q is working again on my desktop, it has been for some time and I have updated Chrome several times on both machines since July 21. Not sure what was causing the problem, but it certainly appears that it was not FS Indexing Support.
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Got it. Thanks, Jay.
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@John Empoliti A general question since you have many stars. I see there have been no answers to indexing questions for a week or so. Is there a reason for that and is it worth my time asking a question regarding my batch [M3DV-GVW] from South Africa Dutch Reformed Church records? I am flummoxed as to why date columns for Wanneer, the date we are to use for event date, were changed starting with the 7th line.
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@John Empoliti Sorry about that. I see now that questions were answered on Sep 6. I do have trouble finding and navigating the Indexing Community Help site. I have been off this site for several months.
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@Mary Rice . Generally speaking, I think that response times for traditional indexing questions should improve now that the 1950 US Census has been handed off to a special team for completion.
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