- Once you are in your Adobe program of choice, select Edit > Keystrokes to begin customizing key commands to fit your needs and to take advantage of full productivity.
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Step 2
From here, (Edit > Keystrokes) you can view either shortcuts for tools or shortcuts for each menu item categorized by a high level menu option. Select the option which best fits your needs.
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Step 3
Once you find a shortcut you would like to change, click on the appropriate column and then simply type the keys you would like to assign to that shortcut and the symbols for those keys will appear. Hit save and you’re all set – and one step closer to better efficiency.
Tips & Warnings
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One can argue that Adobe didn’t change the shortcut keys on all of the programs because people were already used to, and had already established, their muscle memory for the pre-established keystrokes.
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My opinion is that the new programs have been around long enough that it’s time to make the simplest aspect of consistency consistent. Let’s face it, it’s completely absurd that to hide an application you press Command-H in Dreamweaver, Command-Shift-H in Photoshop, and Illustrator totally lacks a default keystroke for hiding altogether.