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Customizing keyboard shortcuts

Customizing keyboard shortcuts - InDesign Tutorial

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Customizing keyboard shortcuts

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- [Instructor] We all know how valuable keyboard shortcuts can be. As opposed to mousing through menus and sub menus to access a command, a keyboard shortcut gets us there with the tap of a key so to speak. As clever as the InDesign developers were at giving us useful and efficient keyboard shortcuts, sometimes they have their shortcomings, no pun intended. Sometimes a shortcut just doesn't work for us or a command that we do use doesn't have a keyboard shortcut. In those cases, you can easily create your own keyboard shortcut for a command that you use quite easily. Let's take a look. Now it doesn't really matter what document you have open to do this, and as a matter of fact, you don't even need a document open, but what I'm going to do is go to my edit menu and I'm going to choose keyboard shortcuts. Now, one of the things you're going to need to do to get started is you're going to have to create a new set. Now…

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