Turning off 'help'
Turning off 'help'
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Hi everybody, I'm new to this forum so forgive me if I ask a really basic question.
When using AutoCAD, I tend to use shortcut commands (acadconfig configured) rather than the tool bars and as a consequence I hit the F2 help key by accident (I'm probably just clumsy and I have big hands too). Can you disable the help shortcut F2 key easily ????
thanks in anticipation
When using AutoCAD, I tend to use shortcut commands (acadconfig configured) rather than the tool bars and as a consequence I hit the F2 help key by accident (I'm probably just clumsy and I have big hands too). Can you disable the help shortcut F2 key easily ????
thanks in anticipation
Friar Tuck of Sherwood





RE: Turning off 'help'
Look at the topic: 'menu files, editing' in the ACad Help.
Mala Singh
'Dare to Imagine'
RE: Turning off 'help'
Mala Singh
'Dare to Imagine'
RE: Turning off 'help'
The biggest issue is that the first time I use help, it locks the computer for about 30 seconds before the help window opens. After that, the help window opens immediately, but buried underneath the drawing window.
I suspect this is purely an issue with the windows enviroment (I am on Win 2000). I also suspect the F1 key is a Windows issue, and not something AutoCAD can change. Any ideas how to fix any of these things?
Joe Dunfee
RE: Turning off 'help'
I'll try and look for the mnu files and edit them
wish me luck
Friar Tuck of Sherwood
RE: Turning off 'help'
Friar Tuck of Sherwood
RE: Turning off 'help'
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http://www.archidigm.com/lounge/index.htm
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I don't think you can change the F1 key. It is core to Windows functionality. Perhaps you could pry off the key and put it back on with a shim under it so it would not actually press down. Who uses F1 anyway???
I love it - that's a real engineer's solution!
RE: Turning off 'help'
More of us would probably use "Help" if it were helpful. I've never found it to be any help, probably because I am a computer dolt, and between that and the badly written English used in the Help descriptions, I usually don't have a clue what I am being instructed to do. But it's not just my ignorance, either. I wanted to know how to create attributes for a block, and when I went to "Help" to find out how to create blocks with attributes, it instructed me to modify the attributes to suit. I found it difficult to modify what did not exist.