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Custom toolboxes

Custom toolboxes - Illustrator Tutorial

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Custom toolboxes

- [Instructor] So it's smarter and more efficient to learn the shortcuts for the operations you use most frequently. It's also smart and efficient to learn the accelerator keys for the tools that you use most frequently. But what about the tools that don't have accelerators to access them? Well, that's one of the times where you might consider creating your own toolbar that you can either use in addition to the main toolbar or you maybe want to create one that is just the way you want it and use it on its own instead of the main toolbar. To make them is fairly straightforward. You go to the Window menu, come down to Toolbars, and choose New Toolbar, and give it a name. One of mine is called No Cuts because there are no shortcuts to the tools and this is the toolbar. Now, at the bottom of it you will have an ellipsis and if you click on that, you can then go through and find the tools. So the Rectangular Grid Tool is…

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