200+ useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Adobe Illustrator CS5. http://www.shortcutworld.com/en/win/Adobe-Illustrator_CS5.html[2013-07-05 08:49:29 PM] Adobe Illustrator CS5 mac win Comments (0) Edit Add login/ register Account My Shortcuts Login/ Register Platforms: Linux Shortcuts Mac OS Shortcuts Windows Shortcuts Web Applications New Windows Shortcuts: GroupWise 2012 Sticky Notes Adobe Photoshop CS6 Microsoft Word 2012 Site: About/ Blog Discuss Add Page Request Page Give Feedback Adobe Illustrator CS5 Shortcuts Uploaded by max, updated on 11/13/2012 by bernd Platform: Windows/ English PDF Print Hide all Show all Table of Contents: 1. Function Keys 2. Selecting Tools 3. Viewing Artwork 4. Drawing 5. Drawing in perspective 6. Keys for selecting 7. Moving Selection 8. Editing Shapes 9. Painting Objects 10. Live Paint Groups 11. Transforming Objects 12. Creating variable width points 13. Working with Type 14. Panel Shortcuts 15. Additional Shortcuts 1. Function Keys F1 Help F2 / F3 / F4 Cut / Copy / Paste F5 Show/hide Brushes panel F6 Show/hide Color panel F7 Show/hide Layers panel F8 Create new symbol Ctrl + F8 Show/hide Info panel Ctrl + F9 Show/hide Gradient panel A wiki-style reference database for keyboard shortcuts
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200+ useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Adobe Illustrator CS5.
Double-click Hand tool Fit imageable area in window
Double-click Zoom tool Magnify 100%
Space Switch to Hand tool (when not in text-editmode)
Ctrl + Space Switch to Zoom tool in magnify mode
Ctrl + Alt + Space Switch to Zoom tool in reduce mode
Space Move Zoom marquee while dragging with theZoom tool
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + 3 Hide unselected artwork
Alt +drag guide Convert between horizontal and vertical guide
Ctrl + Shift +double-click guide
Release guide
Ctrl + Shift + h Show/ H ide artboards
Ctrl + Alt + r Show/Hide artboard r ulers
Ctrl + Alt + 0 (zero) View all artboards in window
Ctrl + Shift + v Paste in place on the active artboard
Esc Exit Artboard tool mode
Shift +drag Create artboard inside another artboard
Ctrl +click Select multiple artboards in the Artboardspanel
Ctrl + F6 Navigate to next document
Ctrl + Shift + F6 Navigate to previous document
Ctrl + Alt + F6 Navigate to next document group
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F6 Navigate to previous document group
Esc Exit Full Screen mode
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4. Drawing
Shift +drag
Constrain a shape’s proportions ororientation to: (1) equal height and width forrectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses, andgrids, (2) Increments of 45° for line and arcsegments, or (3) Original orientation forpolygons, stars, and flares
Spacebar +drag Move a shape while drawing it
200+ useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Adobe Illustrator CS5.
Use the PerspectiveSelection tool and thenpress 1 ... 4
Switching perspective planes 1 for left grid,
2 for horizontal grid, 3 for right grid, or 4for no active grid
Ctrl + Alt +drag Copying objects in perspective
Ctrl + d Repeat transforming objects in perspective
Shift + d Switching between drawing modes
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6. Keys for selecting
CtrlSwitch to last-used selection tool (Selectiontool, Direct Selection tool, or Group Selectiontool)
Alt Switch between Direct Selection tool andGroup Selection tool
Shift +click
Add to a selection (or substract a selection)with Selection tool, Direct Selection tool,Group Selection tool, Live Paint Selection tool,or Magic Wand tool
Alt +click Subtract from selection with Magic Wand tool
Shift +drag Add to selection with Lasso tool
Alt +drag Subtract from selection with Lasso tool
Caps Lock Change pointer to cross hair for Lasso tool
Ctrl + Alt + a Select a rtwork in active artboard
Alt + c + o Create cr o p marks around selected object
Ctrl +click twice Select behind an object or select behind inisolation mode
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7. Moving Selection
Arrow Keys Move selection in user-defined increments
200+ useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Adobe Illustrator CS5.
Shift + Enter Apply a value and keep focus in edit field
Alt + Enter Apply a value and copy object
Ctrl + Enter Apply a value and scale optionproportionately for width or height
Transparency Panel
Alt +click on maskthumbnail
Change mask to grayscale image forediting
Shift +click on maskthumbnail
Disable opacity mask
Shift +click on disabledmask thumbnail
Re-enable opacity mask
Click opacity field +Up Arrow / Down Arrow Increase/decrease opacity in 1% increments
Shift +click opacity field+Up Arrow / Down Arrow
Increase/decrease opacity in 10%increments
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15. Additional Shortcuts
These were created by Arthur (http://shortcutworld.local/user.php?l=en&user=4979) as separate page; merged them here. Some mayalready in large list, but many are not. Merged by Bernd
Selecting and Moving
Ctrl To access Selection or Direction Selection tool(whichever was used last) at any time
Ctrl + Alt + Tab To switch between Selection and DirectSelection tools
Alt +click tool To cycle through tools behind column tool
Alt To make copy while dragging
Shift To add to a selection
Arrow Keys Move Selection
Shift + Arrow Keys Move Selection 10 pts
Ctrl + 2 Lock selected artwork
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + 2 Lock all deselected artwork
Ctrl + Alt + 2 Unlock all artwork
Ctrl + 3 Hide selected artwork
200+ useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Adobe Illustrator CS5.