From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Repeating the last Pathfinder operation

Repeating the last Pathfinder operation - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Repeating the last Pathfinder operation

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- [Voiceover] In this movie I'll show you how can repeat the last applied pathfinder operation both using a command and from the keyboard. So for example, let's say I go ahead and marquee these two shapes right there. And then I go over to the pathfinder panel and click on the first icon in the first row in order to unite those shapes. Alright now I wanna repeat that pathfinder operation by marqueeing these paths and then going to the fly up menu icon in the top right corner of the pathfinder panel and choosing repeat add. In which case I will repeat that last supplied operation. But that might make you wonder why in the world such a command exists when it's so much easier to just click on one of these icons right here. And the reason is that gives the Adobe an opportunity to assign a keyboard shortcut to that command. And that shortcut is CTRL+4 here on the PC, or command 4 on the Mac. And so notice if i go ahead and marquee these paths right here and press CTRL+4 that's the number…

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