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Shortcuts

When working in Flash, you will begin to notice that the abundant tools, commands, panels, and options take up time when you have to search for them and click options in a certain order. That's why I love shortcuts. When you get comfortable using them, your design and development time will begin to shorten.

To see the available shortcuts, choose Edit, Keyboard Shortcuts and you will see a screen pop up, as shown in Figure 2.27.

The options in this menu are the following:

• Current
  This allows you to choose which type of built-in shortcuts you prefer, including Macromedia Standard, Fireworks 4, Flash 5, FreeHand 10, Illustrator 10, or Photoshop 6.

• Commands
  This holds the groups of commands that have shortcuts, including Drawing Menu Commands, Drawing Tools, Test Movie Menu Commands, Workspace Accessibility Commands, and Actions Panel Commands. In the large list box under Commands, you can see the subsets of groups.

• Description
  Gives a description of the command when you choose one. (This is not an option that can be adjusted.)

• Shortcuts

  (+/-)
  Allows you to add or remove shortcuts from the selected command.

• Press Key
  Retrieves the set of keys when you press them for the shortcut and lets you know if they are available.

• Change Button
  Sets the focus into the Press Key box.

• Duplicate Set Button
  Duplicates the current set of shortcuts you are viewing so that you can make changes.

• Rename Set Button
  Allows you to rename the current set of shortcuts.

• Export Set a310
  Allows you to export the selected list of shortcuts to a305 file that can be viewed at any time as a reference. You can see an example in Figure 2.28.

  Figure 2.28. The exported Macromedia Standard shortcuts.

  
  

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• Delete Set Button
  Allows you to delete the current set of shortcuts. (You cannot delete any of the built-in sets of shortcuts that come with Flash.)

You can also create your own set of shortcuts, as this next walkthrough will show you: