Choosing commands
Commands let you perform a wide variety of tasks. Illustrator provides several ways to choose commands: - The menus at the top of your screen provide access to commands. If a command is dimmed in a menu, it isn't applicable to the current operation. For instance, a command may only work on a selected object, or a particular kind of object (such as type or bitmap objects).
- Context-sensitive menus display commands that are relevant to the active tool, selection, or palette. To display a context menu, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) in the document window or palette.
- Keyboard shortcuts let you quickly execute commands without using a menu. When available, the keyboard shortcut appears to the right of the command name in the menu. For more information on keyboard shortcuts, see Customizing shortcuts and the appendix on keyboard shortcuts.
Illustrator lets you edit standard keyboard shortcuts and create new shortcuts. For more information, see Customizing shortcuts.
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