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What has happened to the Alt+Q keyboard shortcut

J C Bingham
J C Bingham ✭✭✭
July 20 in Indexing

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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  • J C Bingham
    J C Bingham ✭✭✭
    July 21 Answer ✓

    I restarted Chrome on my desktop and the Alt+Q shortcut is working again.

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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 20 edited July 20

    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.

    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/118317/the-web-indexing-keyboard-shortcuts-needs-updating


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  • J C Bingham
    J C Bingham ✭✭✭
    July 21

    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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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 21

    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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  • J C Bingham
    J C Bingham ✭✭✭
    July 21

    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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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 21

    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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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 21

    Glad to hear that, Jay. I noticed that it wasn’t among the shortcuts I had listed as non-functioning.

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