- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you
how to restore Illustrator's default shortcuts
which is pretty straight forward
as well as how to create your own custom shortcuts
which can be a little more challenging.
All right, let's say you look
at this effect, and you just think
gosh, you're going to be envelope-distorting all the time.
After all, the feature is entirely compatible
with live editable text, in which case,
you might want to restore Illustrator's default shortcuts
which you can do by going up to the Edit menu
and choosing the Keyboard Shortcuts command.
Again, it has its own shortcut of mash your fist K.
Then, you'll want to go up to the Set option here,
switch it back to Illustrator Defaults.
It's entirely harmless.
It's not going to hurt dekeKeys at all.
After which point, go ahead and click OK.
Now, if I were to press Control + Z
or Command + Z on the Mac, to undo that distortion,
now when I go up to the Object menu,
choose Envelope Distort, I can see
that those three first commands all have keyboard shortcuts,
albeit ones that aren't entirely parallel,
but Make with Top Object is now reset to Control + Alt + C
or Command + Option + C on the Mac.
So instead of choosing the command, I'll just go ahead
and press that shortcut, Control + Alt + C,
or Command + Option + C on the Mac,
and I distort all that text
using the top object which is an ellipse.
All right, so that's one way to work,
but my guess is you're going to want to keep most
of my shortcuts and modify a few to suit your specific needs
in which case, I'll press Control + Shift + Alt + K,
or Command + Shift + Option + K on the Mac,
to bring up the Keyboard Shortcuts command.
I go ahead and switch back to dekeKeys for Illustrator,
either Windows or Mac, whichever you loaded.
Then, I switch from Tools because none
of the commands are available in this tool section.
These are just tools and opacity controls.
I'll show you how they work in the next movie, but for now,
let's go ahead and switch back to Menu Commands.
Now, you can start sifting through the menus.
For example, I know that command's listed some place
in the Object menu, and then I would just scroll down
this list until I find Envelope Distort,
and then I would go ahead
and click over here in the Shortcut column.
You actually have to click a couple of times,
two times in a row to actually light it up
and make it active, so just bear that in mind.
But anyway, that's one way to work.
Another is to just use this search field,
so as long as you know part of the command name,
like I know it includes the word top.
Turns out that's entirely all the information I need.
So now, I can click in that Shortcut column.
Notice it is not highlighted.
You have to click a second time to light it up,
and then I'll press Control + Alt + C,
or Command + Option + C on the Mac
in order to assign that shortcut.
Now notice I get a warning, and I see
that the shortcut was already in use
by the Hide Corner Widget command,
and I could go searching for it,
or I could just click Go To Conflict
in order to see that that command no longer has a shortcut.
Now let's say I changed my mind,
in which case you can take advantage
of your single level Undo button,
so you can't undo more than once,
but you can undo that one time, like so,
after which point it becomes a Redo button.
All right, now let's say you take a different approach.
I'll enter the word top once again,
and I'll click in its shortcut a couple of times
to light it up, and I'll press Control + Alt + C,
or Command + Option + C on the Mac
in order to assign that shortcut.
Now, oftentimes the way you think you should work,
is you see this alarm down here, and you think
"Oh no, I don't want to replace that command.
"That would be a mistake."
So you either click the Clear button
or you just press the Backspace key
or the Delete key on the Mac.
Notice what happens in that case.
If I now search for the word widget,
then I see that Hide Corner Widget no longer has a shortcut,
so I've basically achieved the worst of both worlds.
I didn't design a shortcut to the command I wanted to,
and I robbed a shortcut from the command I didn't want to.
Now you can try clicking Undo,
but in this case, it didn't do anything.
It's not going to work.
If that happens to you, here's a solution.
One obviously, is to Cancel out,
and then choose the command again and start over.
But the better way to work in my opinion,
is to just switch to a different set,
like I'll switch back to Illustrator Defaults
at which point Illustrator's going to prompt me
to save over my existing file or give it a different name.
That's an option as well,
but if you just click Cancel, then you will switch
to Illustrator Defaults without making any change.
Now notice if I switch back to dekeKeys for Illustrator,
that my keyboard shortcut
for Hide Corner Widgets is restored.
All right, so here's possibly the best way to work.
I'm going to switch this guy back to top once again,
so it's Make with Top Object, that's the command name.
Just so happens, if I switch back to my PDF documents,
that I've got that one on page four right here,
where I've got a repeat, Control + Shift + Alt + F
or Command + Shift + Option + F on a Mac,
highlights the font.
So does Control + Shift + Alt
or Command + Shift + Option + M,
so why don't I use that M for Make with Top Object?
To make that happen, I'll just go ahead and switch back
to Illustrator, and I'll assign that shortcut.
I'll click a couple of times
in that Shortcut column right there,
and I'll press Control + Shift + Alt + M.
That would of course be Command + Shift + Option + M
on the Mac.
Notice that it's still giving me a warning,
and let me show you what that looks like.
I'll click on Go to Conflict,
and notice that where Highlight Font is concerned,
we have a secondary item.
It's crazy but those occur every once in awhile
when you're working inside this dialog box.
For example, if I twirl open Other Misc,
I could assign a secondary keyboard shortcut
to undo and cut and so forth.
Sometimes that's an option.
Generally speaking, it's not.
But what I would do, if you decide to customize,
just to be safe, I would click
on this Save button right here,
and I would create a new Keyset File.
For example, I'm just going to call this guy
dekeKeys customized, let's say, and then I'll click OK,
and I've just now added another keyboard shortcut file
to that folder that we saw
back in the first couple of movies.
All right, now I'll click OK in order to accept that change,
and this time, I'll press Control + Z
or Command + Z on the Mac, to undo that envelope distort,
and just to show you everything's worked,
I'll go up to the Object menu, choose Envelope Distort,
and we can see that Make with Top Object now has
that shortcut of mash your fist M,
and so I'll just go ahead and use it
by pressing Control + Shift + Alt + M here on the PC
or Command + Shift + Option + M on the Mac,
and I once again achieve that Text Zepplin effect.
And that's how you restore Adobe's default shortcuts
as well as how you create your own custom shortcuts
here inside Illustrator.