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I wish to remap an unused key into a key combination. I am a handicapped user and not of the related questions seem to answer my needs.

My handicap requires me to enlarge the displayed portion of my Chrome browser. Generally speaking control+ serves my purposes well but is becoming more and more difficult for me. I wish to take some unused key(such as ) and remap that into the desired keyboard combination.

Any idea how I can best accomplish this?

Thanks.

Ross

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There is perhaps a way to do this within Chrome; but I would suggest investigating AutoHotkey, as you may have similar requirements for remapping keys to combinations in other applications.

The following script should remap the Pause (Break) button to Ctrl + (zoom in) when the Chrome window is active:

#IfWinActive ahk_class ahk_class Chrome_WindowImpl_0 

Pause::
    Send, ^{+}

(save as, for example, chrome.ahk and double-click to run)

If you use Chromium, you can change the first line to #IfWinActive ahk_class ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_1.

I will leave it to you to determine other hotkeys (such as zooming out). I have no affiliation with AutoHotkey, but it may be valuable for you if you envision wanting to remap keys to suit your accessibility needs elsewhere. As it happens, I will be leaving this script in-place for myself as I find myself zooming in frequently in Chromium due to my own poor eyesight.

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  • That works wonderfully! Even better it is fully integrated with the On-screen Keyboard!
    – greenber
    Jul 6, 2015 at 18:39
  • Glad to hear it @greenber :) AHK is pretty powerful, so hopefully it will fit some needs that you haven't even discovered yet!
    – bertieb
    Jul 6, 2015 at 18:53
  • You know what they say about having a hammer, right? Once you have one, everything starts looking like a nail.
    – greenber
    Jul 6, 2015 at 21:58

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