- [Voiceover] In this movie I'll show you how can repeat
the last applied pathfinder operation both using a command
and from the keyboard.
So for example, let's say I go ahead and marquee
these two shapes right there.
And then I go over to the pathfinder panel
and click on the first icon in the first row
in order to unite those shapes.
Alright now I wanna repeat that pathfinder operation
by marqueeing these paths and then going to the fly up menu
icon in the top right corner of the pathfinder panel
and choosing repeat add.
In which case I will repeat that last supplied operation.
But that might make you wonder why in the world
such a command exists when it's so much easier to
just click on one of these icons right here.
And the reason is that gives the Adobe an opportunity
to assign a keyboard shortcut to that command.
And that shortcut is CTRL+4 here on the PC,
or command 4 on the Mac.
And so notice if i go ahead and marquee these paths
right here and press CTRL+4 that's the number four,
by the way, or command+4 on the Mac,
I will repeat the unite operation.
Now that's a pretty great keyboard shortcut,
because often times when you're applying
a pathfinder operation you find yourself
needing to apply it over and over again,
but it's not particularly memorable.
Which is why I've created this chart of keyboard shortcuts,
that involve numbers by default here inside Illustrator.
And incidentally, by the way,
this is a new thing,
if you end up getting this warning right here,
which is telling you that you don't have
the fonts loaded on your system
that I'm using in this document, which by the way,
is a font called Adobe Caslon Pro,
then you may see this warning that's telling you
that the fonts are missing, in which case,
you can just go ahead and click on the "sync fonts" button,
in order to load these fonts from Typekit onto your system.
So just an FYI.
Anyway, I'm gonna turn that layer off,
so that we can see what our options are here.
If you press CTRL+1 or command+1 on the Mac,
you're gonna zoom the document to actual size
that is the 100% view size at which we're seeing
this document right now.
If you press CTRL or command two,
you're gonna lock the selected object.
CTRL or command three hides the selected object.
So for example, if I were to click on this text right here,
and then press CTRL+3 or command+3 on the Mac,
that would hide the text,
and then if I wanna bring it back,
I could go to the object menu and choose the "show all"
command which has it's own shortcut of CTRL+ALT+3
or command+option+3 on the Mac.
Now I'm not really suggesting you memorize those shortcuts,
but they are there.
The one you probably do wanna memorize is
CTRL+4 or command+4 on the Mac.
Which repeats, as I said before,
the last pathfinder operation.
Moving right along we have CTRL+5 or command+5,
which converts a selection to a custom guide.
Then we have CTRL+6 or command+6 which reselects.
Now this one is a little misleading,
because notice lets say I just go ahead and click
on this text right there, and then I click off of it,
you would expect based on what we're seeing right here
that I could press CTRL+6 or command+6 on the Mac,
to reselect that text.
But in fact it doesn't work.
And if I were to go up to the select menu,
you'll even see that the reselect command,
which has that shortcut, is dimmed.
And that's because reselect doesn't necessarily work
with the arrow tool.
Instead it works with the select menu.
So notice if I go up to the select menu,
choose "object", and then choose "all text objects"
then I'm gonna select all the text in this document.
Now lets say I wanna repeat that operation,
inside this document here then I could just go ahead
and switch to it and press CTRL+6 or command+6 on a Mac,
in which case,
I'm gonna go ahead and select all the text objects
throughout this document.
The same goes for selecting similar objects
inside Illustrator.
And so for example, lets say I select this green ring and
then I go up to the select menu, choose "same",
and choose "appearance",
at which point I'm going to select all the path outlines
that have the same green fill and stroke
as we're seeing here.
Then I could go ahead and click on one of
these purple squares right there and press CTRL+6
or command+6 on a Mac, and that's gonna go ahead and select
all the shapes that share that same combination
of fill and stroke.
Alright that leaves us with just a few more shortcuts here.
If you press CTRL+7 or command+7 on a Mac,
you'll convert an object to a clipping mask,
and we're gonna be reviewing exactly
how clipping masks work in detail
in the upcoming chapter in this very course.
Meanwhile if you press CTRL+8 or command+8,
you'll convert your shapes to a compound path,
as we saw in a previous movie.
CTRL+9 or command+9 is the only numerical keyboard shortcut
that is not assigned by default inside Illustrator,
but if along the way there turns out to be a command
that you really love and you want to assign CTRL or command
nine to it, then you can do so by going to the edit menu,
and choosing the keyboard shortcuts command.
And then finally we've got CTRL+0 or command+0 on the Mac,
which fits the artboard inside the window,
and of course we can see that work
just by switching to the other document
and first person control+1 or command+1 on the Mac,
in order to zoom the document to the 100% view size,
which ends up making it pretty tiny on this screen.
Or I could press CTRL+0 or command+0 on the Mac,
in order to zoom the artboard
so it fits inside the document window.
And so that's how you repeat the last pathfinder operation,
that is to say by pressing CTRL+4 or command+4 on the Mac,
as well as how you take advantage
of all of the other numerical keyboard shortcuts
here inside Illustrator.