Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 - Manual (Page 542)

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Chapter 15: Keyboard shortcuts
Customizing keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts make you more productive in Illustrator. You can use the default shortcuts included with
Illustrator, or add and customize shortcuts to suit your needs.
Customize keyboard shortcuts
Illustrator lets you view a list of all shortcuts, and edit or create shortcuts. The Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box serves as
a shortcut editor, and includes all commands that support shortcuts, some of which aren’t addressed in the default
shortcut set.
You can define your own sets of shortcuts, change individual shortcuts within a set, and switch between sets of
shortcuts. For example, you can create separate sets for different workspaces chosen from the Window > Workspace
menu.
If you have previously saved a set of keyboard shortcuts other than the default, then the keyboard shortcuts are stored
in a .kys file in Illustrator's preferences folder. You can copy this file into the same location (in Ai’s preferences folder)
in the new computer. You can then choose this set from Illustrator’s Keyboard Shortcuts dialog.
You can use the same .kys file across platforms as long as the modified shortcuts are valid for the platforms.
Following are the locations where the custom Illustrator keyboard shortcuts are saved by default:
Mac OS:
user/Library/Preferences/Illustrator CS5 Settings/[language]/mycustomshortcut.kys
Windows Vista and Windows 7
<rootdir>\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator
CS5 Settings\[language]\mycustomshortcut.kys
Win XP
<rootdir>\Document and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe
Illustrator CS5 Settings\[language]\mycustomshortcut.kys
In addition to using keyboard shortcuts, you can access many commands using context-sensitive menus. Context-
sensitive menus display commands that are relevant to the active tool, selection, or panel. To display a context-sensitive
menu, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) in the document window or panel.
1 Choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts.
2 Choose a set of shortcuts from the Set menu at the top of the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box.
3 Choose a shortcut type (Menu Commands or Tools) from the menu above the shortcut display.
4 Do any of the following:
• To activate the set of shortcuts, click OK.