Shortcut to select "Speedy Entry"

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Post by John335 » Thu May 30, 2019 12:15 am

That's the big question. Is there a shortcut to select "Speedy Entry" or is it down to QuicKeys?

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Post by miker » Thu May 30, 2019 1:20 am

You could try to set it up as a shortcut in the keyboard control panel. I have a lot of shortcuts there, although I don’t use Speedy.
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Post by Anders Hedelin » Thu May 30, 2019 8:31 am

There is a possibility to program keyboard shortcuts within the program:
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Post by Bill Stevens » Thu May 30, 2019 11:43 am

John,

Note that what Anders suggested is document-specific, so if you want that shortcut on all your documents you will want to add it to your templates.

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Post by mmike » Thu May 30, 2019 12:03 pm

Maybe this isn't possible on a Mac (?), but in Windows Finale you can simply use the TGTools Menu Shortcuts feature to program any key or combination you like to any of the tools.
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Post by Bill Stevens » Thu May 30, 2019 12:06 pm

That TGTools feature is not in the Mac bundle. Mike's suggestion of System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts provides a similar function.

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Post by Anders Hedelin » Fri May 31, 2019 11:55 am

Another kind of assignment possible only on Windows, and document-specific, but very quick to program and to use:
Select a tool from the palette > hold shift and press any of the keys f2 to f12. Then, to select a tool, press just the f key assigned. (On my computer f10 and f12 seem a bit unwilling, for some inexplainable reason, but otherwise this works just fine.)
To do this every time you create a new document doesn't take many seconds, especially if you use fairly much the same assignments each time.
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Post by John335 » Mon Jun 10, 2019 6:08 pm

I programed my template and it works great! Thanks to all as always!

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