How to disable keyboard shortcut "Control Shift Down"

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How to disable keyboard shortcut "Control Shift Down"

Hi,

I'm mildly surprised that I couldn't find the answer to this little problem I have.

I'm running a PC version of Excel through VMWare under Mac OS X 10.7, and it works perfectly fine except that the keyboard shortcut for selecting continguous cells in a column - Control-Shift-Down - produces a weird "slow-mo" version of F10, which is showing all windows in the current application.

First of all, I hardly see this "feature" to be of any practical use as you can accomplish the same (without the slow-mo effect) by hitting F10 by default.

Secondly, this prevents me from doing something actually useful in Excel which is selecting continguous cells in a column.

Can someone please give a tip to disable this useless shortcut? I've looked everywhere in Keyboard settings in Preferences without success.

Can't believe no one else has the same issue.

TIA

-Wk

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Sep 17, 2011 11:05 AM

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Answer 1

Maluktuk

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Dec 28, 2011 9:16 PM in response to weakunix

I am running into the same problem and agree that it is a rather useless shortcut. Would love any help to get around this.

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Maluktuk

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Dec 28, 2011 9:34 PM in response to Maluktuk

I guess I should have done a little more digging before I posted that. This can be fixed by going into System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Mission Control and then unchecking (or changing the default shortcut) for "Mission Control" and "Application Windows". The Excel key combination now works like a charm.

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weakunix Author

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Dec 28, 2011 9:41 PM in response to Maluktuk

Thanks a lot for your post. I tried your suggestion and indeed got the Excel short-cut back. It wasn't obvious as "Mission Control" and "Application Windows" are mapped to F9 and F10 (rather than the ctrl-shift-down" combo).

It's ok since I don't really have any use for shortcut launching "Mission Control" or "Application windows".

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Maluktuk

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Dec 28, 2011 9:44 PM in response to weakunix

I'm glad it worked for you as well. It was personally something that had been bothering me for months...

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Answer 5

May 31, 2014 11:36 AM in response to Maluktuk

But what if I don't want to disable control-up and control-down for exposé, I only want to disable shift-control-up and shift-control-down for the silly "slow mo" exposé (to replace with Sublime Text 3's multiple-cursors)? thx!

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Carl_U

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Jan 20, 2015 6:59 AM in response to startswithj

I remapped Sublime's block select shortcut to Super+Shift+Up/Down as a workaround but I'd also like to know how to disable stupid "slow-mo Application Windows" shortcut.

Is it even a feature? Or just a bug?

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