Customizing Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are fantastic. When you are starting to learn a new application there may be a bit of time hunting and pecking through the menus trying to find commands, but these tips will help for both menus and tools shortcuts.

What’s on the Menu?

Go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts to be presented with a large dialog box with lots of options. There is a dropdown list for setting shortcuts for the tools and for menu commands.

The Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box will list all the tools and any shortcuts associated with those tools. Not all tool will have shortcuts, but the most-used tools will. If ...

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