Usually when you assign "hot" keys or keystrokes to Mac OS or desktop
functions, adding the option key will allow them to work in an application
that's supposed to be using them. So pressing control-command-option-c may
work for you in Entourage.
> On or near 11/17/00 10:17 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> observed:
>
>> OK, I've discovered why control-C but NOT control-command-C opens things in
>> Entourage and everywhere else, whereas for Allen control-command-C works the
>> same as control-C.
>>
>> I have control-command-C defined as my "hot key" for showing/hiding the
>> control strip, so that is what it's doing when I press control-command-C in
>> any app. It evidently overrides anything else without problem. I'm not sure
>> if that's the default or if I set it that way.
>
> Do you intend to say that when you change or disable the control strip hot
> key, then you also see Cmd-Control-C opening things in Entourage? In other
> words, can we conclude that this behavior is present for everyone unless
> they have something that intercepts the keystrokes first? And that,
> therefore, for script shortcuts or OneClick shortcuts, we should avoid
> Cmd-Control combos?
>
> Come to think of it, I have a few Cmd-Control combos that <do> work.
> Cmd-Ctrl-F runs my "Open Folder" script for me, for instance. So maybe we
> should say that we need to avoid any Cmd-Ctrl-key combos <for which Ctrl-key
> combos are already defined>, since the Ctrl-key combo will always prevail.
>
> This would cover my discovery that if I have a script assigned the Ctrl-N
> shortcut (which works fine), then if I try to assign Cmd-Ctrl-N to another
> script, it will not work; it will run the first script every time, whether
> or not the Cmd key is pressed. That's a bug somewhere, but it appears to be
> a system bug, not one in Entourage.
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