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CHAPTER 1 Customizing
Keyboard shortcuts save tremendous time and effort and are, in my opinion, the great-
est productivity-enhancing invention since instant coffee (created by Saint Juan Valdez circa
35,000 bce). InDesign is loaded with keyboard shortcuts to speed your work. And, at this
point in the narrative, many software book authors would launch into several pages of key-
board shortcuts or direct you to the back of the book, to an index of the same. Me? Well, I
have precious few pages in which to cram all the advanced InDesign info I can. I’m not going
to waste 3 to 10 or so of those with something I can give you in a different medium (see the
sidebar “InDesign CS5 Keyboard Shortcuts”). More important, I can give you something even
better than a list of keyboard shortcuts: I can show you how to set your own keyboard short-
cuts for just about everything.
InDesign CS5 Keyboard Shortcuts
Even with the ability to customize every keyboard shortcut in InDesign, sometimes it’s nice to
have a list in front of you. So, I made one.
Visit http://iampariah.com/projects/other-projects to download a free and printable PDF
containing every keyboard shortcut for InDesign CS5 and InCopy CS5 on both Windows and Mac.
If you choose Edit  Keyboard Shortcuts to launch the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box (see
Figure 1.11), you can assign a keyboard shortcut to any command in InDesign, change the short-
cuts already assigned, and create portable sets of shortcuts (more on portability later).
Figure 1.11
Editing keyboard
shortcuts
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