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Really I'm just trying to use the Ctrl+2 shortcut to make a radical, but for some reason this won't work. What could possibly be going wrong? The exponent shortcut works (i.e. Ctrl+6).

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What OS version? Do you have Spaces enabled? – Brett Champion Jan 28 at 20:21
It work here, Mma 9 & OS X 10.8, US English kb layout. What language keyboard layout are you using? What keyboard shortcut is listed next to the menu item Insert -> Typesetting -> Radical? Does that menu item work? Did you ever edit any files inside the Mma installation directory? – Szabolcs Jan 28 at 20:21
Have you tried Ctrl+@? On my keyboard the @ is over the 2. Can you try to use the number where the at is? – halirutan Jan 28 at 20:25
@BrettChampion, I'm using 10.8.2, I do have spaces enabled. – BlBl Jan 28 at 20:38
@Szabolcs, I'm using the US English keyboard layout as well. The shortcut listed is ^2. That does not work, and I haven't edited any Mathematica files on this machine. – BlBl Jan 28 at 20:43
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Converting my comment to an answer. On my OSX machine Ctrl+2 worked, so I checked the documentation which states under Details and Options

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In my keyboard layout the 2 is the same key which is used for the @. Maybe on your machine this differs. Can you try to use Ctrl+@?

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