Amplify Shortcuts in Windows

[G Springer]

I am trying to help a student. In the Windows Version 12 help file under "Amplify Shortcuts" it gives options for "Holding the ALT+ Key down while amplifying..." This works as shown on a Mac but I'm not able to do this in Windows.

 

When I hold the Alt key down it just causes the menu bar icon to jump to the right...

 

Is there any way to do this on a Windows machine? Is this a bug issue or does the Windows help file need to be updated?

Shalom,

Gary

[jarcher]

Control should be used instead of Alt here, I believe.

[Billy32792]

Hi Gary,

 

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

 

On the Windows version, you can highlight a word and then click the 'Amplify' icon in the toolbar for that same menu (you don't need the 'alt' key). This also works this way in the Mac version.

 

You can also use the 'Alt' key while clicking the 'Amplify' icon on the Mac version to get to that same menu, as outlined in the Mac Help section.

 

You are right, it doesn't work with the 'alt' key in the Windows version. It does appear that the Windows 'Help' section needs to be updated as you have suggested. We did find this, in the Help Index under 'Amplify'>'key numbers'>'Amplifying with other Shortcut Keys'. Is this where you found this, or is it also in another section too?

 

Thanks for your help,

 

Billy

[G Springer]

Yes that is where I found it in the Windows version of the Help file.

[Billy32792]

Thanks again Gary!

 

I have passed this on to corrections.

 

Billy

[G Springer]

I wanted to clarify one thing. A few people have stated that I can just do this from the main menu without the ALT key....

As I am reading the help file, the idea of holding down the ALT key and amplifying is to give alternative results.

So when amplifying a key bible text, for example, it gives the result not for the word highlighted but the key number of that word.

 

This is the idea of a shortcut key. I realize there are other ways to do this and really my question is....

Is this a shortcut key only on a Mac. That was part of my student's original question (he is on Windows).

My student was watching a video by David Lang who presented this as a "little-known feature" and then demonstrated it.

To which my student asked, "Is this just a feature on Mac?"

Edited May 11, 2017 by G Springer