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Keyboard shortcuts can dramatically increase your effectiveness when working
within an application. Flash allows you to customize keyboard shortcuts
so you can quickly use the commands that you need to, to speed up your
workflow. In this movie, we'll take a look at how to
do that. To customize keyboard shortcuts, go to Flash,
Keyboard Shortcuts, or on the PC, Edit Keyboard Shortcuts.
In the Keyboard Shortcuts window, you're shown the current set of
keyboard shortcuts. If you want to create your own custom set,
the first thing to do is to duplicate a set. So, what I'm going to do is click the Duplicate
Set button and duplicate the Adobe Standard Set.
I am going to call this My Custom Set. I'll click OK and then I'll add a keyboard
shortcut. I am going to click in the Commands, go to
the Tools panel. I'm going to scroll down.
I'm going to modify the Magnifier keyboard shortcut, which currently is M,
and change it to Z. To do that, I'm going to remove this shortcut
by clicking the Remove Shortcut button, or the Minus sign, and then
click the Plus button to add a keyboard shortcut. For the Magnifier, I like to use Z because
I think of the Zoom tool I want to zoom in. So, I'm going to change that to Z by pressing
the key and then I'll click the Change button. Flash gives you a prompt that that keyboard
shortcut is already assigned to the Bind tool. But to be honest, I don't use the Bind tool
all the time. I'd rather have Z as my Magnifier.
So, I'll click Reassign and the keyboard shortcut is then reassigned. So, I'll click OK.
Then if you look in the Toolbar, around the Magnifier, I'll press Z, and the tool
will be highlighted. So, you can use keyboard shortcuts to get
to all the commands you need to, faster.