First of all welcome back, and absolutely no breach in protocol at all - asking a SONAR question in a SONAR forum is exactly how to do it.
In Preferences, a cool feature is that you can search on words. For example, I searched on "from" and preferences found "from = now." It also indicated there's no pre-set shortcut, so feel free to roll your own.
However, note that F9 is now taken up with something else - click on "Locate Key," type F9, and it will show if there's an existing assignment. However I did "Locate Key" and hit shift-F9, and it's currently unused so you might want to use that instead.
There
is a learning curve with the X-series so be prepared for that. But it's worth it, I get projects done much faster than I did with 8.5 once I figured my way around. X3 is a great version to jump on board.