You can see we have group is already, by default, in Illustrator, Command + G, but this is the command it's currently at, and I want to improve this or make it easier, so we're going to go ahead and select this and I'm going to tap one of my F keys because I apply all of my keyboard shortcuts to F keys on my keyboard, and in this case, this is going to be F6. Stands for Glitschka Studios commands, and we want to change a menu item, so we're going to go to menu commands, select that, go under object. Now to set up your own keyboard shortcuts, you go to edit, pull down to keyboard shortcuts, and we're going to open up this window, and right now, you can see I have some saved because I've saved my set as GS commands. That's about the time somebody told me about keyboard shortcuts, and that's what I want to go over now is how to improve this process. (chuckles) Now that I think about it, but anyway, it made it slower to do a simple command that I do all the time, which is group, ungroup. It's not too bad in terms of how it maps up with your hand, but still, you're having to push two buttons with like, your thumb and pinky and then go over and tap the G and it's a little awkward and it certainly isn't fast, and on a Mac, it even gets worse because the keys are even arranged differently in terms of instead of control, you have command, and so it becomes like playing Twister with your hand. Well, why is that a problem? Well, one, it's three keys, so you have to use three different fingers on one hand and it gets a little problematic on a PC. If I go up to object, you can see group, Command + G, ungroup, well, this was like Shift + Command + G. But what wasn't so easy was the command to ungroup. I could remember that and it was an easy one-hand command where I could just hold down the command key, hit G, and now it selects as a whole, selects as a group, and I can move it around at will. So what you would want to do is you would want to select everything and Command + G was to group. That's fine, that will work, but let's say I forget a couple of these leaves and I start moving around and then all of a sudden, there's some problems there. So in this movie, I'll show you how to create your own custom keyboard shortcut and one of the frustrations I found was in some of their commands, so if you're creating a graphic like this, it's a tree, it has a trunk, has all of these leaves, if I want to move this around as a whole, I could either Command + A if it's the only thing on my art board or just Drag + Select everything and I can move it around like this. Will help make routine tasks and functionality easier to use, thereby speeding up your workflow without compromising your quality.
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