Customizing Dreamweaver > About customizing Dreamweaver menus > Changing keyboard shortcuts
Customizing Dreamweaver > About customizing Dreamweaver menus > Changing keyboard shortcuts |
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If the default keyboard shortcuts aren't convenient for you, you can change or remove existing shortcuts or add new ones. The easiest way to do this is to use the Keyboard Shortcut Editor (see Using the Keyboard Shortcut Editor). However, you can also modify keyboard shortcuts directly in menus.xml if you prefer, though it's much easier to make mistakes entering shortcuts in menus.xml than in the Keyboard Shortcut Editor. For information about the syntax of the menus.xml file, see About menus.xml tag syntax.
To change a keyboard shortcut:
| 1 | Quit Dreamweaver. |
| 2 | Make a backup copy of the menus.xml file. |
| 3 | Open menus.xml in a text editor such as BBEdit, HomeSite, or Wordpad. (Don't open it in Dreamweaver.) |
| 4 | Look at the Keyboard Shortcut Matrix and find a shortcut that's not being used, or one that you want to reassign. |
| If you reassign a keyboard shortcut, cross it off on a printed copy of the matrix for future reference. | |
| 5 | If you're reassigning a keyboard shortcut, find the menu item that the shortcut is assigned to, and remove the key="shortcut" attribute from that menu item. |
| 6 | Find the menu item to assign or reassign the keyboard shortcut to. |
| 7 | If the menu item already has a keyboard shortcut, find the key attribute on that line. If it doesn't already have a shortcut, add key="" anywhere between attributes inside the menuitem tag. |
| 8 | Between the double quotation marks of the key attribute, enter the new keyboard shortcut. |
Use a plus (+) sign between the keys in a key combination. For more information about modifiers, see the description of the menuitem tag in <menuitem>. |
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| If the keyboard shortcut is in use elsewhere and you didn't remove the other use of it, the shortcut will apply only to the first menu item that uses it in menus.xml. | |
| Note: You can use the same keyboard shortcut for a Macintosh-only menu item and for a Windows-only menu item. | |
| 9 | Write your new shortcut in the appropriate location in the Keyboard Shortcut Matrix. |
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