- [Instructor] In this movie,
I'll take you on a tour of the extensive documentation
that I'm providing
for all of Illustrator's keyboard shortcuts,
whether we're talking about the default shortcuts
for both the Mac and the PC
or my dekeKeys modifications,
once again for the Mac and the PC.
And you'll find it all
inside this PDF documentation sub-folder.
Now, in all,
I'm giving you 58 pages of documentation,
and so as you might imagine,
I spent a ton of time on this project,
both on determining what kind of keyboard shortcuts
might work better than the existing ones
and creating all of these files here.
All right, so let's see what we've got here.
I'll go ahead and double click on this guy
in order to enter the dekeKeys for Windows file,
and I want you to see that these shortcuts are arranged
not in order of command or menu
or anything like that,
because these commands are all over the place,
but instead I arranged them by the keyboard shortcut itself
so you can tell what that keyboard shortcut is going to do.
So we're starting off here
with all of the Control + letter combinations.
That would be Command along with a letter key
on the Mac.
And if I were to zoom out here,
you can see that we have all of those letters,
A through Z in alphabetical order,
listed on a page by page basis.
So we're starting off with the Control + letter combos
here on the PC.
Then we move on to Control + Shift + letter,
then we have Control + Alt + letter,
and finally, where the letters are concerned,
Control + Shift + Alt + letter.
But that's just the beginning.
After that we have a couple of pages of modifier keys
along with numbers,
and then a couple of pages of modifier keys with symbols,
and on and on.
And we'll be discussing more of this in future movies.
But I want you to see something here.
Notice at the bottom we have a little bit of a legend
that's telling you what the color coding means.
Anything that's red is a dekeKeys modification.
So, for example,
I've given you a shortcut
of Control + Shift + forward slash,
and that's going to allow you
to create a new custom tools panel,
and we'll see what that looks like
in a future movie of this very chapter.
But I also want you to notice this blue text right here.
That tells you that you're going to get different behavior
when text is selected.
So, for example,
if you press Control + Shift + left bracket,
or Command + Shift + left bracket on the Mac,
by default, these are both default shortcuts,
you are going to move the selected object
to the back of the stack.
That is to say,
to the back of the group or layer
or whatever container it exists inside.
Whereas if you have text selected,
you're not going to do that at all.
Instead you're going to kern the selected letters together.
So just bear in mind that that's what blue means.
I don't have any control over that stuff.
That is default Illustrator behavior.
It happens no matter what.
Anytime you see a green word available,
that means that shortcut is available to you
even after you load dekeKeys.
So if you decide there's something
that's really important to you
that doesn't have a shortcut,
you can give it one of Control + Shift + tilde,
for example,
or Command + Shift + tilde on the Mac.
If you see a gray word unassignable,
that tells you that you can't assign
that particular shortcut for whatever reason.
Either there's some OS-level thing in the way,
or, in the case of Control + Shift + plus,
it's just some kind of bug.
It's not a problem.
You can apply Command + Shift + plus on the Mac.
All right, I'm going to scroll back up this list here.
And by the way,
if you want to see the page thumbnails here inside Acrobat,
you just press the F4 key.
All right, anyway,
I'm going to go ahead and click on this guy.
Now, I want you to notice the difference here
between this item, which is red,
and this item,
which is red but also has a yellow background.
Well, that yellow background tells you
that I've remapped the shortcut.
So it's not only a dekeKeys modification,
but it used to do something else.
And so I stole that shortcut from another command.
And if you want to see what that command is,
all you have to do is switch to the defaults document.
That's mostly why I'm providing it, by the way.
So that you can see that Control + E,
or Command + E on the Mac,
used to switch, in the View menu right here,
between previewing on the CPU,
that is, the central processing unit inside your computer,
and the GPU preview,
that is, the graphics card.
Now, that's not something you do on a regular basis.
Sometimes it's useful,
but I don't think it's nearly useful enough
to get Control + E,
and it doesn't make any sense.
There's not that many Es,
and the only ones you can really hear
are in the words preview.
Whereas I use this function all the time.
Effect, Distort, Transform,
you may recall from previous discussions,
that's a dynamic effect,
and it's by far my favorite dynamic effect
inside the software,
which is why I give it a shortcut of Control or Command + E
for Effect.
Now, that doesn't mean I'm leaving
that other command high and dry.
If I switch to the second page,
you can see that most of the Command + Shift combos
are already taken up where the letters are concerned,
but Control + Shift + U or Command + Shift + U on a Mac
happen to be open,
and that makes a lot of sense for this command,
to me, anyway,
because the letter U stands for unit,
as in central processing or graphic processing unit.
So you've still got a shortcut available to you.
Now, you might look at the one available shortcut
on this page,
Control + Shift + Q,
as a little bit of a mystery.
Why did I leave it available?
Well, that's because
if you switch over to dekeKeys for the Mac
and I scroll to the second page,
I'll go ahead and zoom in here so you can see
that Command + Shift + Q is an OS-level keyboard shortcut
that's going to log you out of your computer.
You cannot assign it to a command inside of Illustrator.
And so only in the name of cross-platform compatibility,
I've left that shortcut alone.
So in other words,
if you spend a little time looking at these shortcuts files,
I think you'll start to see my reasoning.
But I'm not going to leave it at that,
which is why in the next movie,
I'll explain a few of my favorite dekeKeys modifications.