Can a keyboard shortcut be applied to a palette button?

Specifically, I would like to be able to be able to highlight some numbers (like 3/8) and use a keyboard shortcut to turn them into a true fraction. The button is the fractions button in the Open Type palette. The shortcut could be CONTROL-f, or something that would not change the highlighted text.

That's very promising — I wasn't even familiar with Character Styles.
Related questions:
• How do you remove the font and size, etc. in the Character Style?
• Is it possible to assign a keyboard shortcut (other than F keys with or without modifiers) to an action?
• Is it possible to record a complex action?
      Assign Character Style
      Left Arrow
      Delete
      Escape
The reason for this is to clean up a whole number plus a fraction (i.e.    3 3/8 )
I use a dimensioning plug-in (CADTools) and that's how fractional measurements are noted. I always clean them up manually, but it takes a lot of keystrokes to do it!
Thanks for the help.

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In Pages '09, you could set a function key as a keyboard shortcut to apply either paragraph or character styles. But I don't see this in Pages 5.0. Have they taken it away or is there another way to do this?
This feature was key for me—it saved me a lot of mouse clicks and drags and made formatting text very easy and consistent. I'll miss it if it's gone, and may even have to keep using the old version of Pages for this reason.

Gone along with 90 other features.
Pages '09 should still be in your Applications/iWork folder. Use that and review/rate Pages 5 in the App Store and delete or archive it to prevent it from opening .pages files accidentally.
Peter

Keyboard shortcut to apply paragraph tag

I'm experienced with FrameMaker 8, but just starting to get used to FrameMaker 9. A keyboard shortcut I use constantly in FrameMaker 8 is Ctrl-9, type the first letter of the paragraph tag and hit Enter. If there is more than one tag starting with the same letter, I just keep hitting that letter until the tag I want appears. For example if there's a Heading1 and a Heading2, I type 'h' two times to get Heading2. With FrameMaker 9, it seems that I have to type the whole word 'Heading2' before hitting Enter.
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jay fresno wrote:
I'm experienced with FrameMaker 8, but just starting to get used to FrameMaker 9. A keyboard shortcut I use constantly in FrameMaker 8 is Ctrl-9, type the first letter of the paragraph tag and hit Enter. If there is more than one tag starting with the same letter, I just keep hitting that letter until the tag I want appears. For example if there's a Heading1 and a Heading2, I type 'h' two times to get Heading2. With FrameMaker 9, it seems that I have to type the whole word 'Heading2' before hitting Enter.
Frustrating when favorite shortcuts are messed up. Is there any way to get my old shortcut back? Is there a fast way to apply paragraph tags in FrameMaker 9?
Type Down Arrow after selecting the first of similar format names. For example, Ctrl+9 H DnArrow moves to Heading2, or whatever is the second format that begins with "H".
Consider using format names that have fewer identical leading characters. For example:
1H Heading1
2H Heading2
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N Numbered
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HTH
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Hi,
I was just wondering how far off a KB covers keyboard cover/shortcut template made for PhotoShop would be when used with LR2?

Very little correspondence. Hardly worth the effort.
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Just import the music into iTunes from wherever it is on your hardrive.

Can't remove a keyboard shortcut

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It's even more powerful than QuicKeys!
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STry going to system preferences>dashboard $ expose. You can set preferences for that key there.
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Hi everyone,
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My favorite feature of Quicksilver so far is the ability to recover easily any number of previous copies to your clipboard. How many times have I copied something and then before pasting it copied something else by mistake and lost the first thing I copied?!? Quicksilver lets me hit "Control-space" and then open a clipboard history window and scroll down to whatever I want to paste (I have it set for 100 items, pretty excessive, I know!). Cheers!

Keyboard shortcuts for tags not working

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Not sure why, but when I assign any keyboard shortcut for a custom tag, the shortcut doesn't work, please see here:
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Hi -
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Keyboard shortcuts to indivudual CSS styles

Hello!
I have a css style I would like to use through a keyboard
shortcut
I tried the following:
* assign a keyboard shortcut to this style through the
keyboard shortcut menu (CSS-styles section), but there the
individual CSS styles do not show.
* record a command (from the history steps) that assigns
this style and then assign a keyboard shortcut to this new
command from the
commands manu - but user defined commands do not appear
there. in the shortcut assigning
menu
Is there something I did not try and will give me the desired
shortcut?
Thanks

So - I don't think you can apply a custom class with a
keyboard shortcut.
Frankly, if you have zillions of times you have to do this on
a page, then
you are not using CSS most efficiently anyhow.
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Access Keys / Keyboard Shortcuts / Mnemonics

I am trying to use the SetAsFunctionKey method and FunctionKeyPress
event to define keyboard shortcuts for window widgets such as buttons on
a Windows 95 client running Forte 3.0.E.
If I add the ampersand (&) to the caption of a button, the letter
following the ampersand is underlined. Normally, in other development
tools such as Visual Basic, if you do this for a button, then clicking
the ALT key along with that one letter automatically fires the Click
event for the button. There is no other coding necessary. I basically
have two questions:
1. Is there a better way of implementing this in Forte, other than using
the SetAsFunctionKey method?
2. If not, I have the following dilemma. My application consists of a
main window and several nested windows. The nested windows do not have
their own event loops, instead, they have Event Handlers that are
registered in the parent window. Both the parent window and its nested
windows need the keyboard shortcuts and would therefore need to register
for the FunctionKeyPress event. The problem is if I register for the
event in the nested window, the registration of that same event in the
parent window is overridden, effectively disabling my ability to process
the keyboard shortcut for the parent window. I am assuming that since
there is only one event loop in this scenario, it is the only one that
receives the FunctionKeyPress event. Is there any way to make this work
without making the parent window aware of all the keyboard shortcuts of
its nested windows?
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You are right Dave, Windows 95 also generates the beep. I just hadn't
noticed it before. If you or anyone else finds a way to suppress this
behavior, please let me know.
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VoiceNow: 972.330.0822
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From: Dave Dixson (Ext. 513)[SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 1997 10:43 AM
To: Van Vuong
Subject: RE: Access Keys / Keyboard Shortcuts / Mnemonics
I am using forte 3E under NT4.
I also can capture the speed key press, but I cant stop the warning
beep that is generated automatically by windows. Maybe this doesnt
happen under win95, or maybe you have the warning beep turned off in
your control panel.
Dave.
-> From: Van Vuong <[email protected]>
To: "'Dave Dixson (Ext. 513)'" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Access Keys / Keyboard Shortcuts / Mnemonics
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 08:51:12 -0500
Which version of Forte are you using? I wrote a quick test program using
3.0.E and contrary to the documentation, I am able to capture the
Alt-key shortcut on my Windows 95 client.
Van Vuong
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VoiceNow: 972.330.0822
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From: Dave Dixson (Ext. 513)[SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 1997 3:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Access Keys / Keyboard Shortcuts / Mnemonics
I have also used the SetAsFunctioKey method to implement Alt-Key
shortcuts, but have found that because windows does not recognise my
pretend shortcut, it beeps a warning whenever the Alt-Key combination
is pressed.
Has anyone found a way of stopping this from happening (without
changing the window control panel settings).
Dave.
From: Van Vuong <[email protected]>
To: "'Forte Users Discussion'" <[email protected]>
Subject: Access Keys / Keyboard Shortcuts / Mnemonics
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 18:47:29 -0500
Reply-to: Van Vuong <[email protected]>
I am trying to use the SetAsFunctionKey method and FunctionKeyPress
event to define keyboard shortcuts for window widgets such as buttons on
a Windows 95 client running Forte 3.0.E.
If I add the ampersand (&) to the caption of a button, the letter
following the ampersand is underlined. Normally, in other development
tools such as Visual Basic, if you do this for a button, then clicking
the ALT key along with that one letter automatically fires the Click
event for the button. There is no other coding necessary. I basically
have two questions:
1. Is there a better way of implementing this in Forte, other than using
the SetAsFunctionKey method?
2. If not, I have the following dilemma. My application consists of a
main window and several nested windows. The nested windows do not have
their own event loops, instead, they have Event Handlers that are
registered in the parent window. Both the parent window and its nested
windows need the keyboard shortcuts and would therefore need to register
for the FunctionKeyPress event. The problem is if I register for the
event in the nested window, the registration of that same event in the
parent window is overridden, effectively disabling my ability to process
the keyboard shortcut for the parent window. I am assuming that since
there is only one event loop in this scenario, it is the only one that
receives the FunctionKeyPress event. Is there any way to make this work
without making the parent window aware of all the keyboard shortcuts of
its nested windows?
Van Vuong
Lead Technical Analyst
Office: 972.985.5289
VoiceNow: 972.330.0822
Internet: [email protected]
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I cannot use keyboard shortcut to quit Safari after Java update

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Klaus

Derek Masterson wrote:
I see it has been two months since your post with no solution. I hope you already did this...
Also, go into System Preferences->Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard Shortcuts and click the "Restore Defaults" button. See if that helps.
Derek Masterson wrote:
Drag the "com.apple.finder.plist" file to your desktop and then restart.
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DW CS3 / OS 10.5 - File Palette keyboard shortcuts don't work

Frustrating - on my Dell, I can use the keyboard to
delete/confirm and open files listed in the File Palette. For
example, I can hit backspace/delete and remove a file after
confirming with an Enter. If I want to open a file, I select it and
hit enter - it opens in DW.
The problem lies with my other (preferred) computer. On my
MBPro with OS10.5 and DW CS3, none of my keyboard shortcuts work in
the same palette.
Any ideas?
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Keyboard shortcuts return to default

I am trying to set my shortcuts so when I hit F11, I get the dashboard, f12 for all windows. But when I restart my machine, it resets those commands to the default setting. Why is it resetting like this only on these commands? Other shortcuts I've set up for applications are not reset.

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Keyboard shortcut macros?

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