Casey D'Andrea
Adobe InDesign Expert
Casey D'Andrea, Loop's very own InDesign expert (and trainer/consultant) is the patron saint of keyboard shortcuts. Casey has done his own makeover of InDesign CS3's keyboard shortcuts, functional area by functional area. In addition to creating his own customized keyboard shortcut file, Casey also produced a layered PDF file that highlights his changes, and adds some colour commentary to explain many of his changes.
It's a must-have collection of keyboard shortcut ideas, and you can download the shortcut files and the accompanying PDF below.
Casey has worked at Loop for several years and spends a lot of time traveling across the country delivering customized training to our corporate clients.
THe reason i decided to make this is...
It was always disconcerting when trying to track down a specific command. Some are not well advertised and there are indeed some great ones tucked in there! Your options are limited as the "show set" button within the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog presents a raw text listing of all the commands. You could also use InDesign's well laid out help system. By the way, that's over 1200 commands, and no, I did not count them manually ;-)
I've been using InDesign since version 1.0 and over the years I added my own custom shortcuts. I've reworked, reorganized and laid out the complete list of commands that can be assigned keyboard shortcuts. In CS3, they've added new panels as well as included previously bundled items, i.e. scripts, InCopy plug-ins. You can quickly search for the command you're curious about.
SCREENSHOT GALLERY...
Click on any of the thumbnails below for a larger view and a brief description.
LOADING THE Shortcut FILE...
I've embedded a copy of the InDesign shortcut file inside the PDF version of the file. Click on the Attachments icon along the left side of Adobe Reader / Acrobat, which will pop open along navigation panel along the bottom of the window.
Depending on whether you want to share the shortcut file, 1200+, place it into one of two locations. If you place into the first location it will be locked down to prevent anyone from overwriting it. If someone wants to make revisions, they will be prompted to make a copy.