From the course: Illustrator for Fashion Design: Advanced Drawing Flats

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Custom keyboard shortcuts

Custom keyboard shortcuts - Illustrator Tutorial

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Custom keyboard shortcuts

- [Instructor] Now that we have our graphic styles, I'd like to set up some custom keyboard shortcuts. There's a few menu commands that we use frequently. 'Object', 'Path', and 'Outline Stroke', and 'Offset Path'. And you'll notice there's not currently a keyboard shortcut associated with either of them. So, we're going to make our own. Click on the 'Edit' menu and drop-down to select 'Keyboard Shortcuts.' We're going to select, instead of 'Tools,' 'Menu Commands.' Click on 'Object' and scroll down to 'Path.' Then we're going to scroll down to find 'Offset Path.' You'll notice, again, no keyboard shortcut. I'm going to click, click in the box, and type in 'Command Q,' which is my preference for the shortcut. And immediately it brings up a little warning sign telling me that 'Command Q' was already in use by the 'Quit' command. That's fine, but I only 'Quit' one or two times a day. I 'Offset Path' probably 30 or 40, so we're going to change this, and I'm just going to click 'Ok.' And…

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