keyboard shortcut for short date

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keyboard shortcut for short date

I am trying to create a keyboard shortcut for "short date" in system preferences by using the "+" in the keyboard/shortcuts/appshortcuts. After I create my short cut, my new shortcut appears in the list, but there is not a check box available to enable the shortcut. And when I attempt to use my shortcut in the restarted program (Pages), it does not work.

I see in the past that this could be done. Is it no longer an option for me (to be date lazy)?

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Jun 2, 2015 10:34 AM

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VikingOSX

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Jun 2, 2015 12:37 PM in response to grinerswife00

When you are in Pages, any App Shortcut must be an item already located on the principal Pages menu hierarchy. The short date, as an advanced date option format in System Preferences > Language & Region > Advanced, will determine the short date format that appears on the Choose Date Format selection menu that appears after a single-click of a previously inserted date. It will never work as an App Shortcut.

Here is an AppleScript version (click to enlarge) of an Automator Service workflow. Once you save this as a Service (I named mine ASDate), you can then assign a keyboard shortcut via System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services. This will overwrite any selected date string in any text input application (including Pages) with a short date of your construction.

And here is the one-line Run Shell Script version that does the same thing.

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