Comments on: MacMost Now 244: Creating Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:54:06 +0000

That’s a problem if the menu has two menu items with the exact same name. No way to do it that I know of.

By: Samuel

Samuel — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:07:39 +0000

I’m trying to create a shortcut to “Arrange>Align Objects>Center” in iWeb, but it keeps creating the shortcut under “Format>Text>Center”. Is there any way around this? It’s driving me crazy having to use the drop down menu every time I want to Align objects. Thanks in advance.

Samuel

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:36:20 +0000

What do you mean by “closes?” If you have it open in a window, then command+W closes your current window. Or do you mean something else, like archiving the message? That’s Message, Archive. So just assign a shortcut to “Archive.”

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:11:24 +0000

Hey there- I am trying to create a keyboard shortcut to close a message that is open in mail. In windows if i hit the escape key the message closes- i tried to set this up with a command key and a few different options and no luck- any suggestions? thanks Jamie

By: Mojtaba

Mojtaba — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:09:27 +0000

thankssss

By: Kathy Cunningham

Kathy Cunningham — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:18:56 +0000

Thanks so much for your video and detailed explanation. What a time saver… this is extremely helpful!!!

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:53:21 +0000

Right. I compiled a list of what I considered the most useful on a single page. Since you can create your own, and third-party apps add even more, the list can go on almost forever.

By: Vicki B.

Vicki B. — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:10:01 +0000

I printed out your list of shortcuts, but it seems like the Apple Web site has even more than that. There was at least 3 pages of them.
The guy who helps me with my computer found them for me, so now I have two lists.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:16:02 +0000

Command+Delete should work. That is the default. If you go to the Finder menu, and look for “Move to Trash” you should see it as Command+Delete.
Are you using the right Delete key? Some keyboards have two: a regular delete key two rows above the return key and to the right of the = key, plus a “forward delete” key above the arrows. Make sure you use the one near =. Some older keyboards may call it “backspace.”

By: mel

mel — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:11:10 +0000

I have OS Lion and I would like to be able to delete files (from finder and/or desktop) using my keyboard. The delete key doesn’t work, and either does command+delete. So I tried to create my own shortcut using command+delete, but it won’t let me use the delete key in a shortcut. Any suggestions?

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:52:25 +0000

Are you sure you have assigned a key and turned them on (checkmark). Most of them have no keys assigned and some are turned off. Then, make sure you are in the right application to use them.

By: Anne Layzer

Anne Layzer — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:25:29 +0000

Many of the keyboard shortcuts that are in System Preference don’t work for me, including the send command in Mail, the sleep command systemwide, Google Search in Safari.

By: Pax

Pax — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:17:41 +0000

Great ! Now I reboot in a snapshot with my custom ctrl+shift+cmd+R shortcut !
I really enjoy your vids, keep the good work. Cheers from a french guy in Madrid =)

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:06:24 +0000

To create shortcuts for special characters, you could use text substitutions. Check out episode 289.
http://macmost.com/using-text-substitutions-in-snow-leopard.html

By: Matt Matson

Matt Matson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:32:19 +0000

Thanks for the tip!
However, I was wondering if there is a way to make a shortcut for a particular action within a program. For example, there is a short cut for “Special Characters…” in text/edit.app, but I would like to create a shortcut for particular characters that I use often (e.g., the em-dash, the paragraph, and the section symbol).
Any advice?

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:31:15 +0000

Which part, specifically, is not working? If you follow the steps in the video, at what point do you see something different happen?

By: Julie Baltins

Julie Baltins — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:47:50 +0000

i can’t get this to work i called my apple tec & still can’t help gary ???i went over this time & time again i have a 20” Mac all up dates are good also any thoughts? on something i should do ?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:35:35 +0000

This was great, I already use your tip on making a keyboard shortcut to “Mac
Speech,” from your Mac Answers podcast. :-)