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- Now obviously, you're going
to be using the Blob Brush

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and the Eraser Tool in
concert with each other,

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possibly along with the
Shape Builder Tool as well,

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so you may wonder why I haven't mentioned

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the keyboard shortcuts
for any of these tools,

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and that's because I don't like them.

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For example, If I click
and hold on the Blob Brush,

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you can see that it gets Shift B,

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while the Paintbrush
Tool, which you are going

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to use far less often, gets
the keyboard shortcut of B.

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Meanwhile, the Eraser
Tool, by default is set

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to Shift D, while E is
assigned to another less

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popular tool, which is
the Free Transform Tool,

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and then finally, the Shape
Builder has a keyboard shortcut

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of Shift M, which doesn't
really make any sense,

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so in this movie, I'm
going to show you how

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to swap these keyboard shortcuts,

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so that for example B is
assigned to the Blob Brush,

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and E is assigned to the
Eraser Tool and so forth.

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And the great thing about this
is it doesn't harm anything,

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you can always change your mind back

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to the default settings anytime you like.

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So, the first step is to
go up to the Edit Menu

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and choose the Keyboard Shortcuts Command,

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and then you want to make sure

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that you are looking at your tools.

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If you are looking at Menu Commands,

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you can just switch to Tools like so,

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and then you're going to have to scroll

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pretty far down the
list, about midway down,

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to find the Shape Builder right there,

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and then you want to click
on its shortcut of Shift M,

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and here on the PC, you have
to click twice on the shortcut

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to totally make it active,
and then, I'm going

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to change this shortcut to L,
which makes more sense to me,

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because the letter L actually
appears in the word builder,

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and then I'm going to
get a warning down here,

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which tells me that the shortcut

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was already in use by the Ellipse Tool,

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and so to swap things around,
click on Go to Conflict

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in order to switch to the Ellipse Tool,

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which is a neighbor of the Rectangle Tool,

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and because Rectangle Tool
has a keyboard shortcut of M

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for Marquee, that hails from Photoshop,

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then why don't we just
change the Ellipse Tool

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to Shift M, since it's arguably the second

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most popular of the Shape Tools.

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Alright, now notice, just
a little ways down here

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that we have the Paintbrush
and the Blob Brush.

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I'm going to click on
the keyboard shortcut

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for the Blob Brush a couple of times

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in order to make it active,

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and then I'll just press the B key.

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I'm once again told I have a conflict,

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so I'll click on the
Go to Conflict Button.

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I'll click on its shortcut,
and I'll press Shift B,

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and that way the more popular brush

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has the keyboard shortcut of B,

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and the less popular one
involves the Shift key.

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Then I'll click on Shift
D, which is assigned

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to the Eraser right here,
and I'll change it to E,

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and then I'll click on Go to Conflict

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and for Free Transform,
I'll go ahead and click

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on its keyboard shortcut
and change it to Shift E.

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Alright now you want to go
ahead and save your shortcuts,

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and you do that by
clicking on the this little

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Save icon right there,
and I'm going to go ahead

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and call my shortcuts DekeKeys

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cause I've been calling
them that for years,

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and then I'll go ahead and click OK,

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and now I'll click OK once again,

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in order to accept my changes.

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and now, as you can see
here, the Blob Brush Tool

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has a keyboard shortcut of B, while the

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Paintbrush Tool is assigned Shift B.

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Meanwhile, the Eraser Tool
has the shortcut of E,

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where the Free Transform
Tool has a keyboard

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shortcut of Shift E, and
then finally directly below,

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the Shape Builder Tool has
a keyboard shortcut of L,

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and if I click and hold
on the Rectangle Tool,

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the Ellipse Tool has a
keyboard shortcut of Shift M.

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Now, if at any time, you want to go back

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to the way things were.
then all you have to do

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is go up to the Edit Menu, and once again,

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choose the Keyboard Shortcuts Command,

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and then change the set
back to Illustrator Default,

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and everything will be just the way it was

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when you first launched the program.

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I like my modifications,
however, so I'm going

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to leave things set to DekeKeys

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just by canceling out
of the this dialog box.

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And that's how you customize
your keyboard shortcuts,

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so that B gets you the Blob Brush,

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E gets you the Eraser Tool, and
L gets you the Shape Builder

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here inside Illustrator.