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Paragraph Style Keyboard Shorcuts in InDesign CS3?
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I recently upgraded to CS3.
I create a paragraph style. Name it. There is a box that says shortcut, just like earlier versions of InDesign.
I click in the box. The indicator is flashing.
I cannot enter ANYTHING.
Computer keeps dinging, telling me I cant do that.
I have read the help files.
Googled the known universe.
HOW do you assign keyboard shortcuts to a Paragraph Style in InDesign CS3???
I am working on a 120-page document with rotating paragraph styles.
Do I HAVE TO keep swinging my cursor to the paragraph style palette and click over and over for 120 pages?
What's the trick?
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Been awhile since I did this, so I had to google this as well, and it turns out that:
Style shortcuts must be a combination of number pad numbers and
modifiers. The numbers on the main keyboard won't work.
Probably due to the regular keyboard numbers already having key commands assigned to them or some such.
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So, if you're using ID on any recent-vintage iMac, with the keypad-less wireless keyboard, you're SOL, I guess?
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andi... tried that, doesn't work
thorz... kept my old keyboard with the new mac
weird thing is, if I am updating an old doc that I did create shortcuts for... they work...
grrrr
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Originally Posted by tpicco 
...weird thing is, if I am updating an old doc that I did create shortcuts for... they work...
Do they still work if you use an old doc as the template for a new doc? That is, replace the content of an old doc completely with the new content.
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yes, up to a point... they can be a little hinky at times, but they work
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Odd! I just tested this in my CS3 and was able.
I'm going to go with the ol' standard: What is "trash preferences and restart", Alex.
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forgive my ignorance... haven't trashed Prefs since mac 9... gimmee a hint please?
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Ok, somewhere in your user folder, there is a plist file for indesign:
/Users/andi*pandi/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.InDesign.plist
Move that to the desktop, quit indesign, restart... and it should make a new one in the folder. Test Indesign. Your keyboard doesn't have a numlock key does it?
If this fix doesn't work and you had lots of preferences set, feel free to move the one from the desktop back in.
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num lock? nope...
i will try what you have suggested.
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yes... worked... thanx 1000x
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you guys made my day so much better today... thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you
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