Keyboard shortcut for Spaces?

I'm pretty new to mac, and loves space on my macbook. But I've run into a problem...when I'm out and about I use spaces all the time, but when I get home I have external monitor that I use as a secondary display. I normally disable spaces when I get home, because I don't want create spaces like I was without a second monitor. Currently I'm going into spaces and just disabling it, but is there a keyboard shortcut that will allow me to disable spaces without having to go into system preferences?
Thanks in advance.

there is no built in tool for this. but if you REALLY want to do this you can make a service that toggles spaces on/off using automator and applescript. you can then assign a keyboard shortcut to run ot. or you can make two separate services one for turning spaces on and another to turn them off and make separate shortcuts to them. I can supply the details but do you actually want to go through all that? I would recommend using spaces at home too. I find them quite convenient with two monitors as well as with one.

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