9.3

Working with keyboard commands
While menus provide a simple and intuitive way to navigate within a presentation,
experienced users will expect keyboard commands that provide fast access to frequently
used commands. The Keys tab in the Interactive palette enables you to create keyboard
commands that do any of the following things:
• Trigger an event associated with a button click.
• Trigger an event associated with a menu option.
• Run a particular script automatically when a keyboard command is pressed.
To create a keyboard command:
1
Click the Keys tab in the Interactive palette.
2
Choose an option from the Page list:
• Choose All to create keyboard commands that execute scripts no matter what page the
end user is on.
• Choose a master page name to make all of the buttons and menus on that master page
available in the list on the right, and to create keyboard commands that execute scripts
only when the end user is on a page that is based on this master page.
• Choose a page number to make all of the buttons and menus on that page available in
the list on the right, and to create keyboard commands that execute scripts only when
the end user is on that page.
3
To control which objects display in the list on the right, choose an option from the Show
drop-down menu. For example, if you want to create a keyboard command that triggers
an event associated with a button click, you can choose Buttons to display only buttons
in the list.
4
Indicate a target for the keyboard command, as follows:
• To associate the keyboard command with a button, select the button name in the Keyboard
Commands list.
•
To associate a keyboard command with a script, click the Add Key button and then
choose the script name from the Script drop-down menu.
5
Enter a key combination in the Key Alias field. You can use any single keyboard key in
conjunction with any combination of the Command, Shift, Option, and Control keys
(Mac OS) or Ctrl, Shift, and Alt keys (Windows) to create a valid keyboard command —
with the exception of commands that are already reserved for common tasks, such as
Command+Q/Alt+F4, which is reserved for quitting the presentation.
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