Pop-up keyboard shortcut

Is there a keyboard shortcut for pulling up the pop-up menu. I don't like that i have to click the drop-down button to see the values in a list. To me it should auto open if I try to start editing in the cell.
hanks

Here we are users, not Apple's employees.
Your requirements must be posted thru the menu item dedicated to this task in Numbers.
It's the 5th item in the menu entitled "Numbers".
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 22 septembre 2007 12:25:3)

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Hi ts,
Thanks for drawing my attention to this! Let's add some missing detail…
While "you just press spacebar" to open the pop-up menu, that won't select a menu item.
After you've opened the menu, 'you could press the first letter' of an entry, ( 'like every other pop-up list on Earth,') or you could press the down arrow to step down the list (and the up arrow to step up, if you went beyond the item you wanted to choose).
And you can change your mind; the menu will stay open until you confirm your choice (by pressing the space bar again, OR by pressing return OR by pressing enter).
Note that pressing the first letter will select the 'smallest' item name beginning with that letter. To move to another item name starting with that letter, you'll need to use the up or down arrow key (or the mouse).
Thanks again for posting. With luck, WideEyedPupil will still be monitoring this discussion, and will see these posts.
Regards,
Barry

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then the workflow should be like this.
1. open "finder items".
2. run "apple script"
on run {input, parameters}
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end run
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Sorry for such a slow response. I've been up to my eyeballs in work recently! (not a bad thing). Thanks Ronin for your help. I did have a look at that link and there is some useful stuff there.
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Until the developer can release dictationswitcher compatible with Yosemite, here is an AppleScript that will toggle between two languages. After it switches, it will speak which language has been set. Currently, the spoken text is in English (United States). This script will work on Yosemite and Mavericks. Tested.
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Creating Keyboard Shortcuts in Pages '09

I am wanting to create a keyboard shortcut to insert footnotes. Is this possible?

fruhulda wrote:
No, you can't assign a short cut for Footnote.
If you are right, I'm the Pope or Mother Theresa
What's that ?
and that :
It doesn't have one from the beginning.
It's really not a problem.
I don't like to change existing shortcuts but adding new ones is really not a problem.
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3. backup to iCloud (I think this clears all shortcuts you have stored in iCloud)
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I've discovered that you can open your custom keyboard shortcuts xml file in a text editor, and copy/paste shortcuts into your CS5 keyboard shortcuts file. Anyone else tried this? Is there an easier way to import all of your keyboard shortcuts from CS4 to CS5?

I did some experimentation, and I stand corrected! Apparently my memory was dodgy. In particular:
My experience is that it basically works fine, though it's been a while.
I thought we had tested this from CS3 to CS5, but it looks like maybe we only did it from CS5 to CS5.5. Which are a lot more similar.
(And yes, I did recall people having complaints about it, but my experience disagreed...)
Indeed, you have some problems with CS4 to CS5, but they are not subtle. At least, initially, I was getting a dialog box informing me that there were defined shortcuts in the shortcut set that were invalid (Somewhere along the way that stopped happening, which is Interesting, but probably not relevant).
Anyhow, I certainly don't disagree that pasting the XML differences is the better way to go -- I said as much in post #13.
But by way of recompense, here are a pair of scripts to make it easier.
Both require you to create a special shortcut set called "defaults" (i.e. defaults.indk) that they use as a baseline for differences. For a variety of reasons, it is insufficient for the script to use the Default.indk file in the application directory. Both scripts pop up an error if you have not done this, and tell you how to do it.
The first one, extractShortcuts.jsx, prompts you to select a shortcut file to extract from, compares it against the default shortcut set, and outputs and differences to a file on the Desktop, extracted.xml. Run this in CS4.
The second one, importShortcuts.jsx, prompts you to select the extracted.xml file from previous, asks you for the name of the new shortcut set, and then merges the two. It merges them in a fairly stupid way (just plain appending just before the end), but it's probably sufficient.
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#target InDesign
(function() {
     var appdir = app.filePath,
          prefs, shortcuts,
          i, s,
          defaults, readcuts,
          defxml, readxml,
          e, ea, action, context, string,
          defaultsByAction, d;
     var includes = $.includePath.split(";");
     for (i=0; i<includes.length; i++) {
          s = includes[i];
          if (s.match("Preferences") && s.match(/Scripts$/)) {
               prefs = new File(s).parent;
               break;
     if (!prefs) {
          alert("Could not find User Preferences directory");
          exit(1);
     // $.writeln(prefs.fsName);
     shortcuts = prefs.getFiles("InDesign Shortcut Sets")[0];
     defaults = shortcuts.getFiles("defaults.indk")[0];
     if (!defaults) {
          alert(
     'The script requires a special shortcut set called "defaults" to exist.\n'+
     'The app-folder Defaults.indk is NOT sufficient. Please go to '+
     'Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts, and select the the [Default] shortcut set,'+
     ' modify it in a trivial way (for instance, assign F1 to About InDesign),'+
     ' name the new set "defaults", remove the modification, and save the set.'+
     ' Then re-run this script.');
          exit(1);
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     writecuts = new File(Folder.desktop.fullName+"/extracted.xml");
     defaults.open("r");
     defxml = new XML(defaults.read());
     defaults.close();
     readcuts.open("r");
     readxml = new XML(readcuts.read());
     readcuts.close();
     writecuts.open("w");
     writecuts.writeln("<shortcut-sets>"); // hack
     defaultsByAction = {};
     for (i=0; i<defxml.shortcut.length(); i++) {
          e = defxml.shortcut[i];
          ea = e.elements()[0];
          if (ea.name() != "action-id") {
               alert("Parse failure on element "+ea);
               exit(1);
          action = ea.attributes();
          context = e.context[0];
          string = e.string[0];
          defaultsByAction[action] = { context: context, string: string };
     for (i=0; i<readxml.shortcut.length(); i++) {
          e = readxml.shortcut[i];
          ea = e.elements()[0];
          if (ea.name() != "action-id") {
               alert("Parse failure on element "+ea);
               exit(1);
          action = ea.attributes();
          context = e.context[0];
          string = e.string[0];
          d = defaultsByAction[action];
          if (!d ||
               d.context != context ||
               d.string != string) {
               writecuts.writeln(e);
     writecuts.writeln("</shortcut-sets>"); // matching hack
     writecuts.close();
And its mating half, importShortcuts.jsx:
#target InDesign
(function() {
    var appdir = app.filePath,
        prefs, shortcuts,
        i, s,
        defaults, readcuts,
        writename, writecuts,
        defxml, readxml,
        e, ea, action, context, string,
        defaultsByAction, d;
    var includes = $.includePath.split(";");
    for (i=0; i<includes.length; i++) {
        s = includes[i];
        if (s.match("Preferences") && s.match(/Scripts$/)) {
            prefs = new File(s).parent;
            break;
    if (!prefs) {
        alert("Could not find User Preferences directory");
        exit(1);
    // $.writeln(prefs.fsName);
    shortcuts = prefs.getFiles("InDesign Shortcut Sets")[0];
    defaults = shortcuts.getFiles("defaults.indk")[0];
    if (!defaults) {
        alert(
    'The script requires a special shortcut set called "defaults" to exist.\n'+
    'The app-folder Defaults.indk is NOT sufficient. Please go to '+
    'Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts, and select the the [Default] shortcut set,'+
    ' modify it in a trivial way (for instance, assign F1 to About InDesign),'+
    ' name the new set "defaults", remove the modification, and save the set.'+
    ' Then re-run this script.');
        return 1;
    readcuts = Folder.desktop.openDlg("Select an XML file to import shortcuts from","*.xml");
    writename = prompt("Choose a name for the new shortcut set. One word, no spaces, please.",
    "new");
    writecuts = new File(shortcuts+"/"+writename+".indk");
    defaults.open("r");
    defxml = new XML(defaults.read());
    defaults.close();
    readcuts.open("r");
    readxml = new XML(readcuts.read());
    readcuts.close();
    defxml.appendChild(readxml.elements());
    writecuts.open("w");
    writecuts.write(defxml);
    writecuts.close();
These are written on a Mac. I suppose there's they might not work perfectly under Windows if the logic to find the user's keyboard shortcuts directory doesn't work.
As always, install scripts by saving each script as a plain text file (in TextEdit or Notepad) and following directions at, e.g., How to Install InDesign Scripts.
Good night.

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If I restart in "Safe" mode or in a test user account Command-P works to bring up the print dialogue, but when I reboot in my normal user mode it still brings up Parenal Controls.
This happens inall applications.
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This doc
Using Activity Monitor
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342>
discusses using AM for monitoring memory usage, but it gives the basic idea. You are interested in two items -- the "My Processes" pop-up menu and the list of processes.
Sort them by name, as shown in the pic, then go through them one by one. You're trying to identify the process responsible for the issue. You may copy the list and paste it into a text editor. Then eliminate those whose functions you can figure out. From the pop-up menu, choose System Processes. That will give you another list; as a first approach, you can eliminate all System Processes from your list. Once you've got the list down to those you don't know and aren't system processes, if you can't find anything obvious (eg, "HotKey Server"), then it's Google time.

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So I click OK and the workstation screen opens up. Only problem now is that the keyboard shortcuts for Open, Close, Copy, Paste, etc. are missing and I can't even use the keyboard to zoom up and down on the layer section.
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I'm running out of things to try but I guess my only resolution is to contact the tech support and shell out the 42 dollars in order to get the program working again.

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Just curious if there's any way to create a keyboard shortcut for "new keyword" and "new sub keyword" in Bridge CC?
If not, that would be a welcome addition in any future Bridge update - being able to customize keyboard shortcuts or add your own the way you can in Premiere Pro CC.

Steve,
Not, as far as I know, directly, but the problem is with Aperture, not Keyboard Maestro. Aperture has no command (afaik) for selecting the caption field of the Info Inspector. Without a command, you will have to find another way to access it, or another way to accomplish what you want.
You can specify the spot clicked by screen coordinates, so you cold use the Inspector HUD and the coordinates of the Caption field, as long as the Inspector HUD always pops up in the same location.
Many dialog boxes allow the user to advance through the fields with the Tab key. Unfortunately, the number of times you have to type "{Tab}" in order to get to a particular field depends on other interface elements (if the Control Bar is showing, add 2). I don't know of a way to determine if the Control Bar is showing.
You might find a work-around using a Metadata Preset and the Batch Change command. Keyboard Maestro can easily pop up a dialog with a text field in which you can type what you want to go into Aperture's Caption field.
The best thing to do is download the trial version and see if it meets your needs. Keyboard Maestro is adept at creating macros based on keyboard input. If the program does not provide keyboard equivalents, writing an effective macro becomes difficult.
http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/
The author provides exemplary documentation:
http://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/About_Keyboard_Maestro
Lastly, for the use you cite, I simply show the Inspector if it's not showing (by typing "i"), change to the Info tab if it is not currently activated (by clicking, but note that opening the Inspector with the Info tab selected can be done with one command "View➞Inspector➞Info"), and then clicking in the Caption field, which is part of all of the Metadata Views I regularly use.
HTH. Perhaps one of our programming mavens will suggest something better.
--Kirby.

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