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I just look and admire the new interface. Sorry for flood. :D

We're happy to hear you're finding the tool useful, @The222anonim and glad you decided to let us know!

I'm curios to know: how did you find out about it?

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Also: if at any point you notice things about the tool you think could be improved, please let us know.

Hello @PPelberg (WMF).

In 2017 or 2018 or 2019, I received a newsletter on my page saying that beta testing will start soon, and then, in 2020 I received an email about the new discussions interface.

I have an idea! What if you add keyboard hotkeys to increase the font size and decrease it? For example, by reassigning Ctrl+M and Ctrl+/. Also as I've spotted, in Microsoft Word 365 you can just click into the word and then use CTRL+B or CTRL+I to make the word bold or italic, but in this interface before using hotkeys, I need to select a word with the mouse and only then use CTRL+B or CTRL+I, which takes additional 1-2 seconds :D

Sorry for poor English, but I hope you understand what do I mean. :D

Sorry for poor English, but I hope you understand what do I mean. :D

I'm finding the English you're using to be great! If I've misunderstood what you are saying in any way, please do let me know.

What if you add keyboard hotkeys to increase the font size and decrease it?

Interesting. Can you please share what is leading you to suggest this? Is it that you are finding the text you are typing in the Reply Tool difficult to read? Another reason?

...you can just click into the word and then use CTRL+B or CTRL+I to make the word bold or italic

This is an interesting idea; I've created a Phabricator task [i] for this idea which you can review here: T263901.

Out of curiosity: have you tried double-clicking on the word you are trying bold or italicize? Doing this should highlight the entire word thus saving you the effort of needing to drag your mouse.

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i. Phabricator is the bug tracking tool we use here at the Foundation.

Also I've spotted a bug, if I paste image from clipboard it will be called "изображение.jpg" ("изображение" = "picture) and can't be loaded because file with this name already exists - I tried to paste that screenshot from my answer but there was a conflict with this image https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%98%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5.JPG, and I was unable to change name of my file, so I had to:

1. Save image I wanted to send
2. Rename it on my PC
3. Paste it here through Drag-n-Drop, because I can't find a button to add an image here :D

And more accurate result should be:

1. CTRL+V that image
2. I'll must to rename the file, but I'll can do this on this page, without requirement of saving the file and renaming in on my PC.

Thanks, I've filed this as T264333. It should fixed next week.

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I'm finding the English you're using to be great! If I've misunderstood what you are saying in any way, please do let me know.

Thank you!

Out of curiosity: have you tried double-clicking on the word you are trying bold or italicize? Doing this should highlight the entire word thus saving you the effort of needing to drag your mouse.

Of course, but I mean that in Word 365 you need just put the cursor inside the word and click once, then use CTRL+B to make the whole word bold. Well I think you understand.

Interesting. Can you please share what is leading you to suggest this? Is it that you are finding the text you are typing in the Reply Tool difficult to read? Another reason?

I mean this (on picture), sorry for russian language in here :D

Of course, but I mean that in Word 365 you need just put the cursor inside the word and click once, then use CTRL+B to make the whole word bold. Well I think you understand.

I do; thank you for adding this extra detail, tho!

I mean this (on picture), sorry for russian language in here :D

Ah, now I see what you mean! You are saying, "Most of other other text formatting options within that drop-down list have keyboard shortcuts, why don't the "Big" and "Small" options have them as well?"

...this is a good question. I'll report back with what I find.

You are saying, "Most of other other text formatting options within that drop-down list have keyboard shortcuts, why don't the "Big" and "Small" options have them as well?"

...this is a good question. I'll report back with what I find.

@The222anonim I think we have an answer here...

The reason the "Big" and "Small" options do not have keyboard shortcuts to them because:

• There is a limited number of memorable and easy-to-type keyboard shortcuts
• The memorable and easy-to-type keyboard shortcuts are currently "occupied" by functions that are used most frequently (think: command + B for Bold)
• We do not currently understand the "Big" and "Small" text formatting tools to be used as frequently as other functions
• As such, we have not prioritized assigning them keyboard shortcuts for the ones that are available are likely to be relatively complex and not memorable