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- [Instructor] In this movie,



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I'll take you on a tour of

the extensive documentation



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that I'm providing



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for all of Illustrator's

keyboard shortcuts,



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whether we're talking

about the default shortcuts



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for both the Mac and the PC



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or my dekeKeys modifications,



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once again for the Mac and the PC.



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And you'll find it all



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inside this PDF documentation sub-folder.



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Now, in all,



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I'm giving you 58 pages of documentation,



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and so as you might imagine,



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I spent a ton of time on this project,



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both on determining what

kind of keyboard shortcuts



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might work better than the existing ones



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and creating all of these files here.



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All right, so let's see

what we've got here.



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I'll go ahead and double click on this guy



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in order to enter the

dekeKeys for Windows file,



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and I want you to see that

these shortcuts are arranged



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not in order of command or menu



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or anything like that,



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because these commands

are all over the place,



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but instead I arranged them by

the keyboard shortcut itself



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so you can tell what that

keyboard shortcut is going to do.



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So we're starting off here



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with all of the Control

+ letter combinations.



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That would be Command

along with a letter key



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on the Mac.



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And if I were to zoom out here,



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you can see that we have

all of those letters,



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A through Z in alphabetical order,



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listed on a page by page basis.



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So we're starting off with

the Control + letter combos



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here on the PC.



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Then we move on to

Control + Shift + letter,



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then we have Control + Alt + letter,



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and finally, where the

letters are concerned,



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Control + Shift + Alt + letter.



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But that's just the beginning.



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After that we have a couple

of pages of modifier keys



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along with numbers,



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and then a couple of pages of

modifier keys with symbols,



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and on and on.



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And we'll be discussing more

of this in future movies.



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But I want you to see something here.



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Notice at the bottom we have

a little bit of a legend



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that's telling you what

the color coding means.



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Anything that's red is

a dekeKeys modification.



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So, for example,



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I've given you a shortcut



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of Control + Shift + forward slash,



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and that's going to allow you



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to create a new custom tools panel,



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and we'll see what that looks like



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in a future movie of this very chapter.



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But I also want you to notice

this blue text right here.



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That tells you that you're

going to get different behavior



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when text is selected.



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So, for example,



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if you press Control +

Shift + left bracket,



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or Command + Shift +

left bracket on the Mac,



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by default, these are

both default shortcuts,



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you are going to move the selected object



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to the back of the stack.



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That is to say,



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to the back of the group or layer



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or whatever container it exists inside.



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Whereas if you have text selected,



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you're not going to do that at all.



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Instead you're going to kern

the selected letters together.



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So just bear in mind that

that's what blue means.



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I don't have any control over that stuff.



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That is default Illustrator behavior.



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It happens no matter what.



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Anytime you see a green word available,



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that means that shortcut

is available to you



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even after you load dekeKeys.



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So if you decide there's something



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that's really important to you



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that doesn't have a shortcut,



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you can give it one of

Control + Shift + tilde,



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for example,



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or Command + Shift + tilde on the Mac.



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If you see a gray word unassignable,



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that tells you that you can't assign



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that particular shortcut

for whatever reason.



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Either there's some

OS-level thing in the way,



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or, in the case of Control + Shift + plus,



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it's just some kind of bug.



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It's not a problem.



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You can apply Command +

Shift + plus on the Mac.



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All right, I'm going to

scroll back up this list here.



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And by the way,



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if you want to see the page

thumbnails here inside Acrobat,



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you just press the F4 key.



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All right, anyway,



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I'm going to go ahead

and click on this guy.



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Now, I want you to notice

the difference here



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between this item, which is red,



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and this item,



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which is red but also

has a yellow background.



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Well, that yellow background tells you



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that I've remapped the shortcut.



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So it's not only a dekeKeys modification,



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but it used to do something else.



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And so I stole that shortcut

from another command.



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And if you want to see

what that command is,



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all you have to do is switch

to the defaults document.



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That's mostly why I'm

providing it, by the way.



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So that you can see that Control + E,



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or Command + E on the Mac,



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used to switch, in the

View menu right here,



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between previewing on the CPU,



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that is, the central processing

unit inside your computer,



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and the GPU preview,



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that is, the graphics card.



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Now, that's not something

you do on a regular basis.



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Sometimes it's useful,



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but I don't think it's

nearly useful enough



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to get Control + E,



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and it doesn't make any sense.



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There's not that many Es,



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and the only ones you can really hear



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are in the words preview.



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Whereas I use this function all the time.



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Effect, Distort, Transform,



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you may recall from previous discussions,



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that's a dynamic effect,



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and it's by far my favorite dynamic effect



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inside the software,



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which is why I give it a shortcut

of Control or Command + E



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for Effect.



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Now, that doesn't mean I'm leaving



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that other command high and dry.



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If I switch to the second page,



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you can see that most of

the Command + Shift combos



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are already taken up where

the letters are concerned,



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but Control + Shift + U or

Command + Shift + U on a Mac



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happen to be open,



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and that makes a lot of

sense for this command,



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to me, anyway,



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because the letter U stands for unit,



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as in central processing

or graphic processing unit.



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So you've still got a

shortcut available to you.



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Now, you might look at

the one available shortcut



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on this page,



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Control + Shift + Q,



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as a little bit of a mystery.



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Why did I leave it available?



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Well, that's because



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if you switch over to dekeKeys for the Mac



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and I scroll to the second page,



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I'll go ahead and zoom

in here so you can see



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that Command + Shift + Q is

an OS-level keyboard shortcut



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that's going to log you

out of your computer.



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You cannot assign it to a

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And so only in the name of

cross-platform compatibility,



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I've left that shortcut alone.



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So in other words,



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if you spend a little time

looking at these shortcuts files,



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I think you'll start to see my reasoning.



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But I'm not going to leave it at that,



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which is why in the next movie,



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I'll explain a few of my

favorite dekeKeys modifications.