Version 30.5.1 and still no Relink shortcut

The relink button on the Links palette cannot have a keyboard shortcut assigned to it. It should. This would save many people hours of time and frustration. And it would allow many people to use Illustrator for placing art instead of InDesign, which has too many other limitations for serious illustration production work. This is NOT the same as the place command with “replace” selected. The Relink functionality allows you to select multiple objects and update each of them one at a time, from front to back. Place doesn’t do that.

When updating a bunch of files, this is the functionality that is needed. I use Replace multiple times a session, sometimes dozens of times in a session, and clicking that tiny button is annoying and slows down my workflow significantly.

Adding Replace to the keyboard shortcuts menu is fairly straightforward and could be implemented and tested easily. This would also allow for additional automated testing to be done on workflows that current require manual manipulation.

For the Fall 26 release, please add this!