Chromebook keyboard shortcuts to move bullets?

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Kaj Kolding

• January 03, 2020 02:56

On my Windows PC, I can use Alt+Shift+UpArrow and Alt+Shift+DownArrow to move bullets in my list. On Chromebook, however, those shortcuts just select text. As far as I can tell, ChromeOS doesn't use these shortcuts for anything else, and the Alt+Shift combination works fine with other shortcuts. Is anyone aware of a way to get these shortcuts to work, or of alternate keyboard shortcuts for this purpose in ChromeOS? Thanks in advance!

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  Joachim Miosga

  • January 06, 2020 09:58

  Hi,

  I have the same problem. I'm searching for some shortcuts on my chromOS machine.

  Does anybody have an overview (cheat sheet) with chromeOS shortcuts for WF?

   

  :-) btw, best wishes for 2020 to all :-)

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • January 06, 2020 15:45

  Hi Joachim and Kaj,

  There may be a couple of shortcuts that don't work for a few folk in ChromeOS... but in general the same shortcuts that work on Windows should work for you...

  If you hit Ctrl+? this should bring up a list of keyboard shortcuts (or alternatively you could activate the keyboard shortcut helper in Settings). Would you mind making a list of all the keyboard shortcuts that don't work on Chrome OS, and I will see about bringing this to the team's attention so that we can kill multiple birds with one stone :-)

  ~ Frank

   

   

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  Ramana Kumar

  • January 04, 2022 09:41

  I have this problem on ChromeOS too and it's very frustrating. Did anyone find a workaround or fix?
  The two shortcuts that don't work for me are: Alt+Shift+Up and Alt+Shift+Down to move items up and down.

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • January 14, 2022 16:10

  Hi folks,

  If Alt+Shift+Arrows dont's work on a Chromebook... please try Ctrl+Shift+Arrows 

   

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  Craig Rice

  • July 03, 2022 19:15

  I can confirm this. On my Chromebook, I can confirm that none of Alt-Shift-9, Alt-Shift-0, Alt-Shift-[, and Alt-Shift-] do anything. I also tried Ctrl-Shift-X and Ctrl-Alt-X variations with the same result. Ctrl-Shift-{Up|Down|Left|Right}-ArrowKeys do perform as expected.

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  Craig Rice

  • July 03, 2022 20:06

  Another thing that does not work on Chromebooks, which may be related, is that I cannot explode tags with Alt-Click. Nothing happens when I try.

  I ran across this page from 2014 which describes this issue (and specifically mentions Workflowy as one of the apps that has issues as a result of how Chromebooks handle Alt+).

  https://support.google.com/chromebook/forum/AAAAmKCdEuss6dDS-PNXI4

  I found other references to issues with Chromebooks here:

  https://blog.workflowy.com/flipping-through-zoomed-in-sibling-lists/

  and

  https://rawbytz.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/workflowys-secret-ctrlshift0-keyboard-shortcut/

  I'm not sure why Chromebooks are unique in this regard, but it sure would be great to be able to remap these in Workflowy. 

  If it helps, this is what the javascript decoding of Chromebook keyboard presses https://www.w3.org/2002/09/tests/keys.html

  Alt-Shift-9: keycode down=57, up=57, Shift=true, Ctrl=false, Alt=true, Meta=false

  Alt-Shift-0: keycode down=48, up=48, Shift=true, Ctrl=false, Alt=true, Meta=false

  Alt-Shift-[: keycode down=219, up=219, Shift=true, Ctrl=false, Alt=true, Meta=false

  Alt-Shift-]: keycode down=221, up=221, Shift=true, Ctrl=false, Alt=true, Meta=false

   

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  Joachim Miosga

  • July 09, 2022 19:40

  Hi Craig Rice,

  on my chromebook i use the search key + mouse click to explode tags

   

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