Hide children short cut key on a laptop

[Jamie123]

Hi,

Macbook pro, OSX 10.6.4 Novamind 4. As my maps grow I need to close down branches, ie hide the children in case the in laws turn up. But the short cut key; cmd* only works on my keyboard when using the multiply * key over on the numbers key pad. But when on a lap top the * key above the 8, when pressed with cmd puts an oval around the parent. So this always happens when using the * above the 8.

I don't have either hot key combination allocated to anything else on the system preferences. Did I do something wrong your honor?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks. )

[Gideon]

I just checked it on my MacBook Pro, and it is working properly.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I'm assuming you're pressing the Shift key at the same time? Otherwise the command would be command+8 which changes the topic shape to oval.

If you are pressing shift and it is still making it oval, then obviously your laptop must be ignoring the shift key and treating it as command+8, which would be very unexpected. Of course you could remap your keys in system preferences if that is the case, at the expense of the command to change the shape to an oval.

[Jamie123]

Thanks for your answer Gideon.

On my Macbook Pro if I press CMD SHIFT 8 the children are hidden, ie it works. So I'm pleased that I have a short cut that works on my laptop, although perplexed as to why my mac is behaving differently.

Thanks.