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SettingsAdd or remove a shortcut for a command
Give a command an extra key combination, or take one away.
Before you start
- The Keyboard shortcuts tab is open.
Steps
Find the command and click Add on its row.
Each key is shown as a small pill with an x. A command can have up to four keys. When it has four, Add is greyed out.
Press the keys you want. The row shows Press the new keys… (Esc cancels).
The picture shows the recorder for Open or close OpenFrame AI. Press Esc to stop without a change. Pressing Tab or clicking elsewhere also stops it. Pressing a lone Ctrl, Alt or Shift keeps it listening until you press a real key with it.
If you press a letter or digit on its own, a red message appears under the row. Press Ctrl or Alt together with the key.
The message reads, for example, A: Add Ctrl or Alt to that key, otherwise it would stop you typing. Function keys such as F9 and keys such as Alt with an arrow work without Ctrl.
If you press Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V or Ctrl+X, the row says Ctrl+C: That shortcut is kept for copy, cut, paste and select all. Choose a different key.
Those four are never available. Ctrl+Alt+1 to Ctrl+Alt+9 are also taken, by the screenplay's custom elements, and OpenFrame says so. Other combinations it cannot use say That key combination can't be used.
Press a free key, for example F9. The key joins the command.
A message says Open or close OpenFrame AI: F9. The new key sits beside the old ones and the row shows (changed). Restore default is now available on that row.
To take a key away, click the x on its pill.
A message says Removed and the key's name from the command. A command can have no keys at all, then CURRENT says None. It still works from its button or menu.
What you get
The command answers to the keys you chose, in every project on this computer.
Watch out for
- Add a key rather than replace one if you want to keep the default. Remove the old key afterwards if you like.