Missing numeric keypad & Character Styles shortcuts

Hello everyone,
Is there a way of activating the keyboard shortcuts we customized for Character & Paragraph Styles using the new Mac keyboards that don't have numeric keypads? Without the numeric keypads, one has to open Character/Paragraph Styles panel and click on the desired shortcut, which is tedious.
We're using ID5.
Thanks.

Discussed yesterday (and a couple of times before). Pity 'Search Forums' does such a crappy job; it ought to show you Shortcuts in the Imacs...

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