Why don't the keyboard shortcuts (e.g. hotkeys like Ctrl-C) work in a SharePoint rich-text field?

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Published on 2014-06-03T08:19:20Z Indexed on 2014/06/03 9:28 UTC
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I use SharePoint 2010 via Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. I have a standard input mask for a task consisting of text fields, rich-text fields et al.

In text fields, I can use keyboard shortcuts (a.k.a. hotkeys) for editing (Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V) and formatting (Ctrl-B/Ctrl-I), but in the richtext field, none of them work. If I click on the appropriate button, however, the expected function is executed properly - but that is a tedious workaround.

What could be the cause? Could it be that the Ctrl key is not recognized at all?

(BTW: The problem is not reproducible in Firefox, because it doesn't show the rich-text controls at all. Why is another question.)

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