Setting modal controls and excluding commandsAfter recording an action, you can insert a modal control. This lets you pause a command to display its dialog box and specify different values, and to manipulate a modal tool to apply new settings. (A modal tool is one that requires pressing Enter or Return to apply its effect.) If you do not use a modal control, Illustrator runs the command using the values specified when you first recorded the action (and the dialog box does not appear). You can also exclude commands that you don't want to include as part of a recorded action or that you don't want to play when running the action. To set a modal control:
To exclude or include a command:
Do one of the following: |