- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how
to install my custom dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts
for Illustrator running on the PC.
If you're working on the Mac,
then go ahead and skip to the next movie.
Now the great thing about these shortcuts,
if I've counted things correctly,
is that they're gonna provide you with a total
of 96 new and revamped keyboard shortcuts,
which I'm really hoping will help you move
through the software that much more quickly.
Now, notice that we've got two files
that end in the extension .kys,
one for the Mac and one for windows.
You want the one for windows,
and you wanna copy it to a very specific folder location.
And let me show you what that looks like.
So here, we have the instructions for installing dekeKeys.
This first bullet item tells you the steps you need
to perform if you're working with Windows.
Now notice the very specific folder that we're looking for
is this guy right here, Illustrator 22 settings.
And it's important to note that this assumes you're working
in the 2018 edition of Illustrator CC.
And to confirm that's the case,
go up to the help menu and choose about Illustrator.
Notice that the copyright statement here near the top
ends with 2018,
and we can see that the version number is 22.
We do not care about any numbers after the dot.
If you're seeing a different version,
such as 21 or 20 or what have you,
then you need to substitute that number in place of this 22.
And just one more thing.
For those of you who may be wondering
how the version numbers shake out in general,
I've got this chart right here.
And you can see that CC 2018 is the same as version 22.
2017 is version 21.
2015.3 is 20 and so on.
The very first Illustrator CC
didn't actually have a year associated with it,
but it came out in 2013,
and that translates to version number 17.
And the reason our text changes from black to blue
is that this is the point at which Illustrator
first introduced custom keyboard shortcuts.
Alright, so I'll press shift page up to return
to the very first art board,
and you can go ahead and read these instructions
if you want to,
but I'm gonna explain how things work on the fly.
And so the first thing you wanna do is grab the type tool,
which you can get by pressing the t key,
and then go ahead and select all of this blue text.
And you only wanna select the blue text, by the way.
You do not wanna select the comma.
Next, you wanna go up to the edit menu
and choose the copy command,
which of course has its own keyboard shortcut of control c.
Next, I'll go ahead and minimize Illustrator
by clicking on the minimize button
in the top right corner of the screen,
and I'll tap the start key,
which is the one with the Windows logo on it,
in the bottom left corner of your keyboard.
And here under Windows 10,
all you have to do is click on this icon,
file explorer, to open a new window.
If you're using a different version of Windows,
you're gonna have to figure that step out on your own.
Alright now, with this new file explorer open,
you wanna click on this bar right here.
Not on the words quick access or however they may read,
but instead over in this empty area.
And that's gonna highlight the contents of the field.
Now you wanna click on the paste button,
or if that doesn't work,
just press the keyboard shortcut of control v,
and that's gonna paste that information
that you copied inside Illustrator.
And then go ahead and press the enter key in order
to switch to that deeply buried sub-folder.
It's gonna contain its own sub-folder, by the way,
which in my case reads x64,
because I'm working on a 64 bit system.
Whatever it is, go ahead and double click on it,
and that's gonna take you
to this top-secret sub-folder right here.
Now it's very possible it's gonna contain a ton of garbage,
like these lst files, which are fontless.
You don't need to worry about those.
You may also, if you've been working right along with me
throughout the fundamentals and advanced courses,
you may see some other .kys file
that you've created in the past.
Don't worry about that.
We're not gonna replace this guy.
We're just gonna add a new one.
And so, I'll go ahead and switch back
to this 31 settings folder,
which is found inside the exercise files folder,
and then I'll drag this file right here,
the one for Windows, and before I release,
I'll press and hold the control key
to make a copy of that file.
Notice that I'm seeing a plus sign next to my cursor,
and that way, you still have a backup of the original.
Alright, now let's load those 96 custom keyboard shortcuts
into Illustrator,
and we're gonna do that
by bringing Illustrator back on screen,
and then I'll just go ahead and press the escape key
to exit outta the text entry mode.
And you wanna go up to the edit menu
and choose keyboard shortcuts,
which itself has a keyboard shortcut of mash your fist k.
That is to say control shift alt k,
which will bring up this dialogue box right here.
Next, you wanna go up to this set option, click on it.
It may be set to Illustrator defaults
or some other shortcuts that you've created in the past.
What you wanna do is go ahead
and choose dekeKeys for Illustrator Windows.
And now, just to make sure everything's working properly,
go ahead and switch from tools to menu commands
and twirl open type.
This is just the easiest guy to find,
and you should see the second command here, gliphs,
which brings up the very helpful gliphs panel.
And you can see that I've now
given it a shortcut of control shift alt g,
in which case, just go ahead
and click okay in order to accept that change.
Alright, now let's perform a couple of tests
outside the dialogue box.
For starters, I'm gonna go up to the window menu,
and I wanna scroll up to the very top command, new window,
which creates a new window into your document.
It doesn't duplicate the document,
it just creates another window into it.
And notice that I've now given this very useful command,
a shortcut of control shift alt n.
And so, let's go ahead and try out that shortcut.
I'll go ahead and press it, control shift alt n once again,
and you can see that I end up with the second window
that has a little two up here in the title tab.
And now what I can do is go up to the view menu
and choose the outline command
in order to switch to the outline mode.
And then, I might just go ahead
and zoom into this text like so.
And notice, if I switch back to the first view,
that I'm still seeing the entire art board
in the preview mode.
So now I have two different views of the document,
both of which will keep up
with any and all edits I might make.
Now let's say you wanna see both views at the same time.
Then you could go up here to the arrange documents icon,
click on it, and choose this guy,
which gives you a vertical two up display like so.
And now, you can just move things around if you like,
and if you make any modifications,
they'll be reflected in both windows.
Alright, now let's say, at this point,
you wanna put things back together.
In other words, you wanna consolidate the two views
into a single window with two tabs at the top.
In that case,
you would return to that arrange documents icon
and choose this guy, consolidate all.
But I've also given it a keyboard shortcut,
which I'll show you here.
It's mash your fist zero.
That is to say control shift alt zero,
which is gonna go ahead and consolidate those two views,
as we're seeing here, so that you can switch between them
by clicking on the title tabs.
And that, my friends,
is how you install my custom dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts.
If you wanna see what you've won,
go ahead and skip the next movie,
the one devoted to Macintosh users,
and take up with the third movie,
which is called welcome to the dekeKeys pdf docs.