Keyboard shortcuts vs icons

Although having worked with Adobe Pagemaker for many if the years it was around and viable-I was delighted when they introduced a quasi windows type toolbar. There are still certain keystroke shortcuts that come easy to me having worked with Windows based Corel Draw and all the standards for many years.
Becoming a MAC enthusiast for a bit more than 2 years now and more so CS4 (altho I was up tp CS2 on Windows) I miss a lot of the Toolbox icons.
Adobe 3-finger type shortcuts are not my favorite.
So the question is: Is there a CS4 (particularly for InD) that gives me icons for commands such as SAVE, SAVE AS, PRINT-?ok Command S and P are no big deal nor are the standards for Copy, paste etc-but if there is a ToolBar or command icons that I have not yet found can someone advise? Also is there a way to program my mouse so when a misspelled word shows up underlined a left mouse click will bring up a suggestion list. When I rt click I get: Insert Link, Insert image, Alignment, Insert Tablet.
Thanks next project is to go thru TUTORIAL-just haven't had the time yet-All of you are terrific for doing what you do.
GB

falcorgb wrote:
Although having worked with Adobe Pagemaker for many if the years it was around and viable-I was delighted when they introduced a quasi windows type toolbar. There are still certain keystroke shortcuts that come easy to me having worked with Windows based Corel Draw and all the standards for many years.
Becoming a MAC enthusiast for a bit more than 2 years now and more so CS4 (altho I was up tp CS2 on Windows) I miss a lot of the Toolbox icons.
Adobe 3-finger type shortcuts are not my favorite.
So the question is: Is there a CS4 (particularly for InD) that gives me icons for commands such as SAVE, SAVE AS, PRINT-?ok Command S and P are no big deal nor are the standards for Copy, paste etc-but if there is a ToolBar or command icons that I have not yet found can someone advise? Also is there a way to program my mouse so when a misspelled word shows up underlined a left mouse click will bring up a suggestion list. When I rt click I get: Insert Link, Insert image, Alignment, Insert Tablet.
Thanks next project is to go thru TUTORIAL-just haven't had the time yet-All of you are terrific for doing what you do.
GB
You can customize existing, and define your own keyboard shortcuts under Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts.
InDesign's Quick Apply feature (Edit > Quick Apply) opens a typing-sensitive shortcut list, so you can type a bit of a command name and press Enter or arrow a bit and then press Enter, to execute the command. See: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/503506
and: http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSE49F1D1F-1336-4f3b-83D2-1 731F0F7D6E2.html
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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