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Lightroom has its strange quirks. Some things i do to images all the time can only be done from the menu, when a right-click would be way easier. And the inability to assign key functions to hot keys is also a pain. It has lots of detractors on the forums, but I find it works very well for me.
In case you run into more annoying problems, here are some resources I use and recommend.
Scott Kelby has some very useful books.
Kelby, S. (2015). The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC book for Digital Photographers. New Riders.
Kelby, S. (2015). How Do I Do That in Lightroom? Santa Barbara, CA: Rocky Nook.
There are lots of great web sites too with text and video help:
Julieanne Kost's Lightroom videos
http://www.jkost.com/lightroom.html
Laura Shoe's Lightroom 6 tutorials and training
http://laurashoe.com/learn-lightroom-cc-2015-and-lightroom-6-free-tutorials/
Victoria Bampton, the Lightroom Queen
http://www.lightroomqueen.com/
PhotographyLife's post-processing tips for Lightroom users
https://photographylife.com/post-processing-tips-for-beginners
Adobe's Lightroom help and support site
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/topics.html
Adobe's Lightroom YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/AdobeLightroom/videos
A few things I discovered that are relevant when you're using these kinds of resources:
* Lightroom is in its 6th edition, and it's changed a lot from edition-to-edition. It even changes subtly (and not so subtly) within editions. Fortunately, even with all the changes, the fundamentals of Lightroom have not changed much since earlier versions -- so even material about earlier versions can still be useful.
* Almost anything you can do in Lightroom can be done in more than one way (and sometimes in many ways). There is rarely one "right" way to do something, but everyone using and writing about Lightroom has an opinion. If you don't like an approach or technique that is being promoted, then there's probably another one.
* It's also handy that Lightroom 6 for Mac and Windows are almost identical -- so it doesn't matter if a web site or video is showing how to use it on a Mac, but you use Windows, or vice versa.
Good luck, Rob
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