Been using CD since 1992, currently using ver 2017 and I'm ready to dump CorelDraw from my regular workflow for good. Why? Because I can't seem to solve the issue with my default shortcut keys suddenly disappearing. One moment I'm working away, the next second I can't use CTRL-U or maybe F4 or sometimes C,E,T,B etc.
This concern permanently stays with the file. I can open another document alongside and everything works. I can close the troubled file and sometimes the keys come back, but most often not.
I have been in regular contact with Corel support and attempted and currently use their temporary solutions almost daily. I am hoping someone has had similar issues and can perhaps inform me I am a complete dolt for overlooking something.
If you have had anything similar happen to you, or Corel, should you have a permanent fix for this, I would sincerely appreciate your assistance.
Thank you.
I never heard a problem like this, but trying to reason about it, the keyboard shortcuts are saved in the Workspace.
I do not know what can cause them to be disabled sporadically (maybe a conflict with another program?) but if you have your Workspace saved with a different name, you should be able to go to Options / Workspace, upload your personal profile and that restores all your customized settings, including keyboard commands.
Thanks Ariel,
Appreciate your response! The hotkeys I lose are the default CD ones like Shift-F2, F4, Ctrl-U etc. I've had this going on for over a year and what apps I happen to be using makes no difference. I will open up an old file that had these issues months later and they will still be gone. During that time I've probably F8'd, cleared my %temp% etc.
I need to find a solution before I toss CD for good.
It could be a memory problem, maybe not RAM but the Virtual Memory of the System (the swap file where Windows stores temporary files). If you have configured Windows to manage Virtual Memory (and worse still, start from a very low value) it could easily become saturated. I can not assure you that it will disable the hotkeys, but I have seen other memory saturation problems, and in any case, disabling Windows to manage the Virtual Memory and establish 20 or 30 Gb of Virtual Memory will not hurt it but on the contrary It will provide stability and agility.