RE: Customize keyboard shortcuts?

["Combs, Richard" <richard.combs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Coverston wrote:
 
> I have set up a customui.cfg file that I use to customize standard
> FrameMaker keyboard shortcuts such as em dash and en dash. I 
> would like to
> be able to set up shortcut keys to apply specific character 
> formats I have
> created. Is there a way to do this?
> I am using FrameMaker 7.1.

I don't think there's any way to apply a char tag with a single key or key-combination. If there were, I'd have mapped Ctrl+b, Ctrl+i, etc., to char tags; instead, I settled for having them open the char catalog. :-} 

The CharQuickKey command (F8 in Windows) gets you close, if you name your char formats wisely. Press F8, then press the first letter(s) of the char tag you want, and then press Enter. Works best if you don't have 15 tags all beginning with the same 3 letters. ;-) 

Have you looked at Shlomo Perets' "Express Customization" kit (at www.microtype.com)? It helps, too, by giving you toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts for "Repeat Char Command" and "Repeat Para Command." Lots of other great productivity enhancers, too. And a good resource or starting point for your own customizations. 

HTH!
Richard 


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Richard G. Combs
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Voyant, a division of Polycom, Inc.
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