Selecting Tools


If you work extensively with Acrobat s tools, you can save time and effort by using keyboard shortcuts to select these tools. Before you can do so, however, you must turn on the feature that enables you to use keyboard shortcuts:

  1. Press [Ctrl]-[K] or choose Edit Preferences (on Windows), or press [ z ]-[K] or choose Acrobat Preferences (on the Mac), to display the Preferences dialog box.

  2. Press [G] with the focus in the left list box, or click the General item, to display the General sheet.

  3. Select the Use Single-Key Accelerators To Access Tools check box.

  4. Click the OK button to close the Preferences dialog box.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Selecting Tools

Windows [H], Mac [H]

Select the Hand tool

Windows [Spacebar], Mac [Spacebar]

Temporarily select the Hand tool

Windows [V], Mac [V]

Select the last selection tool used

The current selection tool is the one selected in the Select drop-down list on the Basic toolbar or the one whose button is selected on the Selection toolbar. This illustration shows the Mac versions of the Basic toolbar and the Selection toolbar.

Windows [Shift]-[V], Mac [Shift]-[V]

Cycle through the selection tools

Press this shortcut to revert to the last selection tool used, and then cycle through the other selection tools (the Select Text tool, the Select Image tool, and the Select Table tool, in that order).

Windows [G], Mac [G]

Select the Snapshot tool

Windows [Z], Mac [Z]

Select the last zoom tool used

The current zoom tool is the tool selected in the Zoom drop-down list.

Windows [Shift]-[Z], Mac [Shift]-[Z]

Cycle through the zoom tools

Press this shortcut to revert to the last zoom tool used, and then cycle through the other selection tools (the Zoom In tool, the Zoom Out tool, the Dynamic Zoom tool, and the Loupe, in that order).

Windows [Ctrl]-[Spacebar], Mac [ z ]-[Spacebar]

Temporarily select the Zoom In tool

Click to zoom in, or press either [+] (to zoom in) or [-] (to zoom out).

Windows [Shift], Mac [Shift]

Temporarily select the Dynamic Zoom tool

This shortcut works only when the Zoom In tool or the Zoom Out tool is selected.

Windows [R], Mac [R]

Select the Select Object tool

Windows [A], Mac [A]

Select the Article tool

Windows [C], Mac [C]

Select the Crop tool

Windows [L], Mac [L]

Select the Link tool

Windows [F], Mac [F]

Select the current forms tool

Windows [Shift]-[F], Mac [Shift]-[F]

Cycle through the forms tools

Press this shortcut to select the Button tool, the Check Box tool, the Combo Box tool, the List Box tool, the Radio Button tool, the Text Field tool, and the Digital Signature tool in that order, starting from the current forms tool.

Windows [M], Mac [M]

Select the Movie tool

Windows [Shift]-[M], Mac [Shift]-[M]

Select the Sound tool

Windows [T], Mac [T]

Select the TouchUp Text tool

Windows [Shift]-[T], Mac [Shift]-[T]

Select the TouchUp Object tool

Windows [B], Mac [B]

Select the Distance tool

Windows [Shift]-[B], Mac [Shift]-[B]

Cycle through the measuring tools

Press this shortcut to select the Distance tool, the Perimeter tool, and the Area tool in that order, starting from the current measuring tool.




Adobe Creative Suite Keyboard Shortcuts
Adobe Creative Suite Keyboard Shortcuts
ISBN: 0072254998
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 91

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