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107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature

107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature

I love keyboard shortcuts. Whenever I am doing some work in a program and I need to keep going to the same menu or panel command all the time. I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut, so I can just tap that instead. And we know that InDesign, has a ton of keyboard shortcuts, and you can add keyboard shortcuts as you would like to. There is a very cool feature about keyboard shortcuts that few people know about, that I want to show you. And that is the ability to use the same keyboard shortcut, for two different commands. Let me show you how that's done. Here we're looking at a frame that's partially full. And I want to fill it with some placeholder text, so I know. How many words, I can fit in this frame? That command is under the Type menu, Fill with Placeholder Text so I can fill this up, just with some text that uses the same style. Now, I use that command all the time. It has no keyboard shortcut, so let's make one. Go to the Edit menu, down to Keyboard Shortcuts. I've already created…

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