Comments on: MacMost Now 244: Creating Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

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. :-)