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Thanks, George. I feel like a rat in a maze … My Sketchup Pro does not have full functionality on the Surface Pro 3 in that the key commands don’t work. Microsoft says “it’s not our problem” …
Make sure your language settings are set to English (United states)
Control Panel > Language
Keyboard Shortcuts are case sensitive. That is … G ≠ g
Any chance the Caps Lock key is on?
Fancy that …
Cross Post:
The caps lock is not on, but I checked my desktop version of SketchUp and find that these commands are not case sensitive. Arrrgghhh
I (desktop PC) find the same, they are not case sensitive.
Hmmm… Perhaps that’s the way things work on a Mac?
Time to tug at @jbacus sleeve for clarification…
Update:
Reading the manual, neither Mac nor Windows documentation mention KB shortcut case sensitivity.
Assigning keyboard shortcuts (Microsoft Windows) — SketchUp Help
Assigning keyboard shortcuts (Mac OS X) — SketchUp Help
they are case sensitive, but ‘G’ is shown as ⇧G and ‘g’ is up-cased as G in Preferences, I find it a bit misleading, but that’s the case on a mac at least…
Preferably work on PC
Since this is among the top Google search results, I thought I should share this link on the Surface and SketchUp. Microsoft Surface Pro - Use caution when upgrading your Surface