••  The Hot Key is viewed and changed in this area of the control panel window:

••  The Hot Key is for “keyboarders”: folks who prefer using keyboard shortcuts rather than moving their hand to the mouse/trackball/trackpad.  Pressing a key (or keys) will activate Front&Center.
••  The Hot Key setting is displayed to the right of the Hot Key: text.   shift-control + “delete” means: hold down the shift and control keys, then press the delete key.
••  The On/Off radio buttons turn the “Hot Key” on or off (enabled/disabled).  You may want to turn the Hot Key off if you're a “mouser” (see next chapter).
âŒ¥âŒ¥  Click the Change button to change the Hot Key.  This dialog box appears:

••  Be careful choosing a hot key.  If you pick a hot key that is used by some other software, the other software will lose that key's functionality (since Front&Center intercepts it).
••  Note that the caps lock key is ignored.
••  Why so many “rules”?  To prevent you from accidently selecting a hot key used in common Mac operations.  For example, you cannot select shift-option + “A” because that is the keystroke for the character Å.  
••  You cannot choose the current hot key as the new hot key (Front&Center will activate, since the hot key is not disabled).  To leave the current hot key unchanged, click the Cancel button.
••  Front&Center doesn't check what type of keyboard your Mac has.  The dialog box will tell you to press a function key even if your keyboard does not have them.
••  If the bottom of the main window says “Changes take effect immediately”, you can immediately try the new Hot Key  setting.

••  If you want to quickly disable Front&Center (without restarting your Mac), turn both the Hot Key and the  Click Modifiers off.