Love Photoshop CS6 - Another Quirk

Hmm, while I really am enjoying CS6 some of the subtle changes are becoming annoying.
I use layers for portrait retouching and in all prior versions of CS I can hit CTL J to create a duplicate layer, then I could right click and it wiould bring up the preferences and I could name my layer. While CTL J still works, right click and the layer preference option is no where to be seen argh! By the way, the help section covering keyboard shortcuts does not, as far as I can see, list the action for CTL J. Seems like a documentation omission as well.
So to get to the to name the new layer I have to right click select duplicate layer, while it works it is annoying where a workflow has been working for many prior releases and for no apparent reason it changes. Is any real thought given to the impact these types of workflow changes can have?
MK

Thanks, i guess i should have done a search, but they were always listed at the end of the help section before.
Anyway the shortcut list is a little outdated and sometimes they leave out the keyboard shortcuts that are listed in the menus.

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