Tool tips provide an instantaneous reference
for shortcuts. InDesign also provides a shortcut editor in which
you can view and generate a list of all shortcuts, and edit or create
your own shortcuts. The shortcut editor includes all the commands
that accept shortcuts, but some of these commands are undefined
in the Default shortcut set.
For Set, select a shortcut set or click New Set to create
a new shortcut set.
Note: Do not edit the Default or the QuarkXPress
shortcut sets. Instead, create a new set based on one of these sets,
and then edit the new set.
For Product Area, select the area containing the command
you want to define or redefine.
In the Commands list, select the command that you want
to define or redefine.
In the New Shortcut box, press the keys for your new
keyboard shortcut. If the key sequence is currently being used for
another command, InDesign displays that command under Current Shortcuts.
You can choose to change the original shortcut also, or try another
shortcut.
Note: Do not assign single-key shortcuts to
menu commands, because they interfere with the typing of text. If
an insertion point is active when you type a single-key shortcut,
InDesign actives the keyboard shortcut instead of inserting the
character in the text.
In the Context list, select the context in which you
want the keyboard shortcut to function. The context ensures that
the shortcut performs the way you intended. For example, you can
assign Ctrl+G to merge table cells (Table context) and Ctrl+G to
insert special characters (Text context).
Note: Assign shortcuts in the Default context
when you want them to function regardless of the current state of
the document. Shortcuts you assign in other contexts, such as Table
or Text, override shortcuts assigned in the Default context.
Do one of the following:
Click Assign to create a new shortcut where
none currently exists.
Click Assign to add another shortcut to a command.
Menu commands can have multiple keyboard shortcuts.
Click OK to close the dialog box, or click Save to keep
the dialog box open while you enter more shortcuts.
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Dave Saunders
said on
Oct 19, 2007
at
10:19 AM :
Keyboard shortcut sets are saved in two locations: in the Application folder in a folder in Presets and in a folder in Preferences. The factory installed sets are in the Application folder; any new sets you make go to the Preferences.
So far so good.
But, if you are tempted to move a set from Preferences to the Application folder (for examle, to make it available to all the users sharing a computer), make sure that you do not have two sets with the same name, one in each place. If you do, you can get into the situation where InDesign says it is using one (the one in Preferences) when it is in fact using the other.
No screen name
said on
Apr 22, 2008
at
5:11 AM :
When does the european shortcut set arrive? In Indesign CS2 you would be able to choose among different sets due to different languages on the keyboards.
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said on
Jun 19, 2008
at
11:02 AM :
Does anyone know how to change the "hide InDesign" short cut to not be apple H which used to be the Hide Frame Edges key command. Everytime I try to change this shortcut, InDesign Hides itself instead of making it Hide Frame Edges. I've already reassigned Hide InDesign, but the program is not overriding the default.
Change the active shortcut set
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