Altering a keyboard shortcut

When going to System Preferences, Keyboard, and then Shortcuts, the particular keyboard shortcut is not listed in order to be able to uncheck the box.
So I have an Wacom Intuos tablet and am trying to set one of the express keys to: command,shift,option,esc which automatically force quits the application you are in. However when I attempt to set this up in the tablet it automatically force quits the Intuos and I never get the keys to become an express key. So I'm thinking if I could temporarily turn of the keyboard shortcuts from taking effect on my mac I could then put the shortcut into my Intuos and then come back and turn keyboard shortcuts back on. Make sense? I'm not wanting to just put in the command Q option which asks if I'm sure, etc.
I attempted to get an answer for this in the basic 'desktop computer' section and got only one replay telling me to just go to preferences, keyboard shortcuts and uncheck the box for this shortcut. I replied that the default mac keyboard shortcuts doesn't have this particular shortcut listed to be able to uncheck the box so... This posting has been up for quite awhile with no replies. So could someone at least replay telling me it can't be done or something?
Thanks for any advice.
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Please don't give up on me here. I'm wanting to execute what I guess is a "force quit" where immediately all windows in the app are closed without asking, "do you want to save, etc."
Per your suggestion I created a shortcut in my keyboard shortcut, applications menu. I simply named it, "force quit." It didn't work, so I next went to the application I had open at the time (Adobe Acrobat) to attempt to choose that shortcut and 'assign' as you said. However there is no "force quit" option. There's only a quit option.
Somehow I'm still not there. Yesterday a gentleman wanted me to show him something and I tend to have so many different applications open at once and had to sit there and hit cmd Q for each one and wait for each one to ask me if I wanted to do this or that and finally got through them all. I'm wanting to circumvent all that and mac automatically lets the cmd,opt, shift, esc. do this. But again, back to my original issue, I cannot place that shortcut into my Wacom tablet because it automatically force quits the Wacom.
Please stay with ole 'dumb dumb' here and help me. I know we're close.
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