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Turning off 'help'

Turning off 'help'

Turning off 'help'

(OP)
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

Friar Tuck of Sherwood

RE: Turning off 'help'

Try disabling the F2 key by editing the Accelerators section of the menu file that loaded in your ACad session.
Look at the topic: 'menu files, editing' in the ACad Help.


Mala Singh
'Dare to Imagine'

RE: Turning off 'help'

BTW F2 nmormally controls the state of the ACad text window - F1 opens Help.


Mala Singh
'Dare to Imagine'

RE: Turning off 'help'

I have a similar problem, though it is much worse when I use my laptop that has the ESC and F1 keys close together.

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'

(OP)
you are right, it is the F2 key

I'll try and look for the mnu files and edit them

wish me luck

Friar Tuck of Sherwood

RE: Turning off 'help'

(OP)
sorry I meant to say F1...see what I mean about banana fingers

Friar Tuck of Sherwood

RE: Turning off 'help'

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???

RE: Turning off 'help'

IFRs wrote:
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'

from IFRs: "Who uses F1 anyway???"

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.

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