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Keyboard shortcut for Menu items with duplicate names?

Hi,

I see this has been asked in the past with no answer; I'll try again. I want to create a keyboard shortcut in Pages for the "Use Default" menu item, under the Baseline submenu. Problem is that the keyboard shortcut panel in System Preferences has you type the name of the menu item, and there is at least one other "Use Default" in Pages, in the Ligature submenu. What can I do? What I hoped I'd find was a syntax for specifying the full path, like "Format > Font > Baseline > Use Default".

thanks,
Rob

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Sep 8, 2010 3:53 AM

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macNtouch

Level 1

9 points

Posted on Nov 24, 2012 12:16 PM

As I didn't want to bother what terminology to search for, I just tried a few different things and had it working again in Mountain Lion.

Intead of ">", I used "->".

Example (tried with success in Adium) : Display->Delete

Regards

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31 replies

Nov 24, 2012 4:56 PM in response to T2YUKI

That's a pleasure :-)

amityuk

Level 1

17 points

Mar 27, 2013 2:32 AM in response to macNtouch

Doesn't work for me in Mountain Lion... Using Screen Sharing App to switch Displays... I have to click the View menu THEN the shortcuts work, which defeats the option! So > nor -> work for me in Screen Sharing in ML. 😟

Intersting thing is its ignoring the View> or View-> because whether I enter this or not, the shortcut still works after I choose the View menu in the app itself.

Apr 8, 2013 8:57 PM in response to macNtouch

Saved my day. 🙂

Apr 17, 2013 8:48 AM in response to Robert Nikander

In Mountain Lion, use Format->Font->Basline->Use Default

m3dusa

Level 1

8 points

Jun 20, 2013 5:20 AM in response to macNtouch

Somebody give macNtouch a medal!

And shame on 10.8 devs! Oh, the hours of peoples lives that are wasted 😢

Sep 6, 2013 11:14 PM in response to macNtouch

Menu->Submenu syntax works in Mountain Lion! Thanks macNtouch! As someone else mentioned, ellipsis must be entered via special characters. And, in the case of an addin, such as TotalFinder.app, you need to add a shortcut for the host app--in this case Finder.app--not the addin.

Oct 22, 2013 7:47 PM in response to Robert Nikander

This works in Mavericks by the way. I created a keyboard shortcut using "Mailbox->Move to Favorite Mailbox->Archive2013".

Oct 26, 2013 8:58 AM in response to Lyle Berman

Actually it does work but only after you use the menus to move a message once. Then the keyboard shortcut will work. Kinda annoying.

Mail wants to use shortcut command-ctrl-1 to move the mail into the folder into where I want to move my mail items. So I used Spark to do a keyboard mapping to ctrl-1 (since command-ctrl-1 is a little awkward for me).

A bit of a kludge but it works...

josepc

Level 1

0 points

Nov 14, 2013 8:18 AM in response to macNtouch

This old post of yours have saved me a ton of headaches as I was struggling with customized shortcuts. Thanks for the invaluable tip 🙂

Jan 20, 2014 12:34 PM in response to Lyle Berman

Can not get it to work on Mavericks. Is there something I am missing?

Feb 11, 2014 2:36 PM in response to macNtouch

Well done macNtouch, that works perfectly 🙂 Running 10.9.1 with latest Pages.

Feb 12, 2014 5:44 AM in response to Robert Nikander

I've tried "->" and ">", both failed on 10.6.8

Can anybody help?

Message was edited by: Athen Xie

Feb 12, 2014 6:15 AM in response to Athen Xie

What version of pages are you using? Are you putting spaces between the menu and submenu or is it all one big sentence? Are you quitting Pages and relaunching after each attempt? Maybe post the exact string here to see if we can see anything wrong with it.

Regards

Daniel

Bado

Level 1

30 points

Feb 20, 2014 11:17 PM in response to macNtouch

Very nice!

Here is the next challenge 😀: what if both commands are in the same menu (as the German tranlation of "Middle" and "Center" in Keynote's "Arrange" menu)?

Any clues? Thanks in advance.

Mar 3, 2014 12:26 PM in response to macNtouch

Thank's macNtouch, your tip helped me to make a shortcurt in Mail. 🙂

Keyboard shortcut for Menu items with duplicate names?