Saturday, January 02, 2010

Adobe InDesign CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts Tips Tricks for PC

Adjust Font Size
Increase by Increment (set in Preferences)
Ctrl-Shift->
Decrease by Increment
Ctrl-Shift-<
(add Alt to the above keystrokes to make them Increment x 5)
Adjust Leading
Increase by Increment (set in Preferences)
Alt-down arrow
Decrease by Increment
Alt-up arrow
(add Control to the above keystrokes to make them Increment x 5)
Revert to Auto Leading
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-A
Adjust Kerning/Tracking & WORD SPACING
Increase by Increment (set in Preferences)
Alt-right arrow
Decrease by Increment
Alt-left arrow
(add Control to the above keystrokes to make them Increment x 5)
Increase between words
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-\
Decrease between words
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Backspace
Clear all manual kerning, tracking, and word spacing
Ctrl-Alt-Q
Adjust Baseline shift
Move Up by Increment (set in Preferences)
Alt-Shift-up arrow
Move Down by Increment
Alt-Shift-down arrow
(add Control to the above keystrokes to make them Increment x 5)


Scaling pictures
Make sure the picture content is selected (not the frame that it’s inside)
Scale 5% Bigger
Ctrl-Alt->
Scale 5% Smaller
Ctrl-Alt-<
Scale 1% Bigger
Ctrl->
Scale 1% Smaller
Ctrl-<
Fitting Content & pictures
Fit Content Proportionally
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E
Fill Frame Proportionally
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-C
Center Content
Ctrl-Shift-E
Fit Frame to Content
Ctrl-Alt-C
Nudging objects
Move by Increment (set in Preferences)
any arrow key
Move by Increment x 10
Shift-any arrow key
Move by Increment x 1/10
Ctrl-Shift-any arrow key
Flowing Text
Multi-Page Autoflow (creates additional pages)
Shift-click
Semi-autoflow (keeps text in cursor so you can continue flowing)
Alt-click
Fixed-Page Autoflow (does not create additional pages)
Shift-Alt-click
Styling text & Working with Styles
Bold
Ctrl-Shift-B
Italic
Ctrl-Shift-I
Normal
Ctrl-Shift-Y
All Caps
Ctrl-Shift-K
Edit Style Sheet without Applying it
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Double click style
Redefine a Paragraph Style
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-R
Redefine a Character Style
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-C
Working with Paragraph Styles
To remove local formatting (non Style changes)
Alt-click Style Name
To remove local formatting and Character Styles
Alt-Shift-click Style Name
Working with Styles
Quick Apply a Style
Ctrl-Return (start typing the style name, hit Return to apply)
Redefine a Paragraph Style
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-R
Redefine a Character Style
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-C
Working with Master Pages
Override a single master page item on a document page
Ctrl-Shift-click it
Override several master page items
Ctrl-Shift-drag a marquee over them
Override all master page items on pages selected in Pages panel
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-L
Insert Special characters
Indent to Here
Ctrl-\
Right Indent Tab
Shift-Tab
Discretionary Hyphen
Ctrl-Shift-hyphen (-)
Nonbreaking Hyphen
Ctrl-Alt-hyphen (-)
Type in Single Straight Quote (Foot Mark)
Alt-'
Type in Double Straight Quote (Inch Mark)
Alt-Shift-'
Current Page Number (Auto Page Numbering)
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-N
Insert White space
Em space
Ctrl-Shift-M
En space
Ctrl-Shift-N
Nonbreaking space
Ctrl-Alt-X
Thin space
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-M
Insert Break characters
Column Break
Enter (on keypad)
Frame Break
Shift-Enter (on keypad)
Page Break
Ctrl-Enter (on keypad)
Forced Line Break (or “soft return”)
Shift-Enter
Moving text cursor
Move cursor to beginning or end of line
Home or End
Move cursor one word to the left/right
Ctrl-Left/right arrow
Move cursor to Previous paragraph
Ctrl-Up Arrow
Move cursor to Next paragraph
Ctrl-Down Arrow
Selecting & working with text
Leave Text Frame and switch to Selection tool
Esc
Select from cursor to beginning or end of line
Shift-Home or Shift-End
Select from cursor to end of story
Ctrl-Shift-End
Select from cursor to beginning of story
Ctrl-Shift-Home
Select whole word
Double-click
Select line
Ctrl-Shift-\ (or Triple-click)
Select one word to the left/right
Ctrl-Shift-Left/Right arrow
Navigating & scrolling through documents
Scroll using Hand tool
Alt-Spacebar-Drag
Go to the First Page
Ctrl-Shift-Page Up
Go to the Last Page
Ctrl-Shift-Page Down
Go to Page (then type in page number)
Ctrl-J
Switch between open Documents
Ctrl-tilde(~)
Zooming
Get the Zoom in tool without selecting it
Hold Ctrl then Space
Get the Zoom out tool without selecting it
Hold Ctrl then Space and Alt
Zoom In or Out
Ctrl-plus(+) or Ctrl-minus(–)
Fit Page in Window
Ctrl-0 (zero)
Fit Spread in Window
Ctrl-Alt-0 (zero)
Access zoom percentage box (so you can enter a zoom level)
Ctrl-Alt-5
Toggle between current and previous zoom levels
Ctrl-Alt-2
Find/Change
Insert selected text into Find What box
Ctrl-F1
Insert selected text into Find What box and then Find Next instance
Shift-F1
Find the next occurrence of Find What text
Shift-F2 or Ctrl-Alt-F
Insert selected text into Change To box
Ctrl-F2
Replace selected text with Change To text
Ctrl-F3
Replace selected text with Change To text and Find Next
Shift-F3
Working with Panels
Highlight the first option in the Control panel
Ctrl-6
Toggle Control panel between Character & Paragraph options
Ctr-Alt-7
Apply a value but keep it highlighted in panel
Shift-Enter
Show/Hide all Panels including Toolbox
Tab (while not in a text frame)
Show/Hide all Panels except the Toolbox
Shift-Tab (while not in a text frame)
Expand/Collapse Panel Stacks
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Tab (while not in a text frame)
Create new (style, swatches, etc) & display options dialog
Alt-click New button
Working with Dialog boxes
Rotate down through section of options displayed on the left
Page Down
Rotate up through section of options displayed on the left
Page Up
Jump to section of options displayed on the left
Ctrl-1 for 1st, Ctrl-2 for 2nd, etc.
Choose Yes or No
Y or N
Miscellaneous Good stuff
Select frame hidden behind another
Hold Ctrl and keep clicking frame stack
Increase/decrease a value in a field
click in field, press up/down arrow
Tabs panel: Move Left Indent (triangle) without moving First Line Indent
Hold Shift while dragging the (bottom) triangle
Select all Guides
Ctrl-Alt-G
Select an Individual Table Cell
With Type tool, click in cell and hit Esc
Quick Apply
Press Ctrl-Enter. Then start typing a style name, menu item, text variable, etc. Then press Enter to apply.
Sort Menus Alphabetically
Hold Ctrl-Alt-Shift and click on Menu
Toggle Typographer’s Quotes preference
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-'

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