Appendix K:
Modifying Keyboard Shortcuts

Modifying the Keyboard Shortcut file
Edit the XML file that controls keyboard shortcuts and hand-code yourself some new ones.

Using the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box
Assign new keyboard shortcuts to any Dreamweaver command using a handy point-and-click dialog box.

Mama's Little Baby Likes Shortcuts

Some people like clicking on buttons, some people prefer to do their selecting with menus, and others like the quick convenience of keyboard shortcuts. Why would you want to be able to edit these shortcuts in Dreamweaver? I don't know about you, but I have a lot of standard keyboard shortcuts memorized, and not so many nonstandard ones. I remember that F10 opens the HTML inspector, but if I want to open any other palette or inspector, I'm pretty much wedded to the Window menu.

You can, however, change keyboard shortcuts so that they work for you. For instance, the Properties inspector didn't even get a keyboard shortcut in Dreamweaver 1.2, and so I can't seem to remember Ctrl+F3. So I decided to make it more like P, for Properties. Ctrl+P is paste, and I don't want to change that. So I open the Keyboard Shortcuts editor, select Window > Properties, and then press Ctrl+Shift+P. It looks like Ctrl+Shift+P is Format: Paragraph. I don't use that shortcut, anyway. So I can go ahead and change it.