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In this movie we're going to talk about shortcuts and more specifically, creating your own. I'm sure you're familiar with shortcuts. There are some very common ones for example on the Edit Menu. You've got Cut, Copy and Paste and virtually every program on the planet uses these options. On the PC you use Control and on the Mac you use Command. Copy, Control or Command C; Cut, Control or Command X and Paste, Control or Command V. Things like Open, Control or Command O, these are the common ones. However, there may be some that don't have shortcuts that you use all the time and others that are using different shortcuts than we're used to. Perhaps you're familiar with another program that uses a different shortcut. The nice thing about InDesign is you can go through and change these as you want. Now, here's a shortcut that doesn't exist in InDesign and it's Transform Again Individually and this is one that I actually use a lot. So I'd love to have a shortcut for this. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to the Edit Menu and choose Keyboard Shortcuts. Now, it won't let you modify the default, but we can create a new set and I'll just call it VTC and it's based on this set. You can base it on another set and look at this; we've got PageMaker or QuarkXPress shortcuts. So we could choose that. I'll just choose the default and if you do want the upgrade from QuarkXpress 4, that's a rather old version. Now they're on eight I believe. Or PageMaker, you could use those shortcuts till you get used to it but you're probably better off using the InDesign ones and just getting used to them and then customizing it for yourself. So anyway, as you select items on the page, you can see what the shortcut is. Let me go to the Object Menu and as I select some of these and let's see where we are, we'll scroll right down and here we go; Transform Again. I can see the Shortcut key is Control Alt or Command Option 3. Now, if I didn't want that one, if I don't like using it I can just remove it like that and then I can create my own shortcut. Let's try that. I'm going to hit F4, currently assigned to; it's unassigned. Perfect. I'll assign it. So F4 is going to Transform Again and Transform Again Individually, that's the one that didn't even have a shortcut. I'll hit F5. This is currently assigned to Swatches. Hmmm. So maybe I'll just Shift F4 and there it is. It's unassigned to anything else so we can assign it and now we have assigned it to Transform Again Individually. So we can go through and if something's assigned, like Swatches to F5, but you really want to use F5 for something else, no problem. You just take it off Swatches and apply it to whatever option you want and the options are huge as you go through all these menus here that you can add, remove or change shortcut keys. I'll just accept that. That's the only change that I've made so now when I select this and let's say I want to rotate this 20 degrees like that, I can select all these and hit F4 to Transform Again, but undo it or Shift F4, which does it a little differently, Transform Again Individually. I personally have a bunch of little shortcut keys, ones like this that I use all the time and I recommend that you do this as well. It'll really make your workflow a lot faster and more efficient.