InDesign1200 Brings Shortcuts to Life
You know we love keyboard shortcuts. We have a keyboard shortcut poster for sale, we worked with DTP Tools to make a free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in. But there’s someone who loves them even more than us: Casey D’Andrea. He has developed a free interactive PDF that shows every keyboard shortcut (KBSC) possible in the program… and there are over 1,200 of them! It’s awesome, and you need to download it.
In order to distribute this PDF and to get the word out about InDesign hyper-efficiency, Casey just launched a new Web site called InDesign1200.com. It’s still a bit rough, but he says he’ll be improving it over time, adding more efficiency-oriented InDesign tricks and so on.
We finally met Casey in person up in Toronto and he’s terrific and has some great ideas. Thanks for all your great work, Casey! Eh?*
(*As an American, keep thinking that I’ll be able to master the Canadian “eh?”, but unfortunately I live a couple hundred miles too far south and I just can’t get it right. Eh? Take off. Eh? Sigh.)
Wow, wasn’t expecting such a nice plug ;)
As David mentioned it’s just getting off the ground. I have lots of organizing to do. I just thought it would make for a great spot where I could control it a little better. I’ll be breaking down the INDD and PDF in posts and adding blurbs on different techniques I used. Some of which I picked up right here, at indesignsecrets.com!
Thanks again David!
Great info Casey! Thanks to you and to David for sharing.
Maybe I overlooked it, but it looks like “spacebar = hand tool” is missing from the PDF…?
@Roland… it looks like you missed it… well, sorta.
It IS in the Tools section, but it’s noted as OPTION+SPACEBAR as that kills two birds with one stone — accessing the hand tool in layout OR text mode.
Why bother with the OPTION or SPACEBAR separately, when you can hardwire a shortcut that serves both purposes.. ;)
Of course some of the shortcuts listed in the INDD/PDF are not included in the Keyboard Shortcuts panel, and only in the Adobe Help Center. Some aren’t even documented in the Adobe Help Center.
RE: DTP Tools to make a free Keyboard Shortcuts plug-in.
just discovered this (possibly) handy utility but it won’t install – i get the following: “adobe InDesign/InCopy CS3 must be installed to install Keyboard shortcuts Panel.” i only have ID CS3. i assume its looking for ID CS3 in it’s default location where mine is located here: C:\Program Files\Adobe\CS3\Adobe InDesign CS3. since its on autopilot, i can’t change parameters. any workarounds?
thanks in advance,
gm