Turning off 'help'

[friartuck]

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

 

[Mala]

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'

 

[Mala]

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


Mala Singh
'Dare to Imagine'

 

[cadcoke5]

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

 

[friartuck]

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

 

[friartuck]

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



Friar Tuck of Sherwood

 

[IFRs]

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???

 

[nextvkin]

Check out this site to redefine your F1 key

http://www.archidigm.com/lounge/index.htm

 

[btrueblood]

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!

 

[DwattedWabbit]

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.