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[roncurington]

Illustrator CS6 vr. 16.0.0

For real, this is something that drives me absolutely into screaming rage simply because it happens 15, 20, 30 times a day, everyday. That something is that Illustrator  just jumps to some dialogue box or web page just because apparently I accidentally hit a wrong key or fat fingered some some key. All of a sudden I have to stop what I'm doing in order to escape whatever thing illustrator has suddenly decided run off on. (frankly, Photoshop does this too)

I'm kind of thinking maybe it would be a good idea to disable all hotkeys except the Move "V" key and the Zoom "Z" k and leave it to the user to setup their own hotkeys, instead of booby trapping the keyboard with countless gotchas.

Is there some way to disable all hotkeys? I will then spend the 15 or 20 minutes to set my own hotkeys. Rather than the hours I've wasted chasing erroneous dialogue boxes and web pages.

It's probably worth noting that the person / entity that springs immediately to mind is Adobe. Does'n do a lot for your image if you know what I mean.

BTW, just to be clear, this is the question...

"Is there some way to disable all hotkeys? I will then spend the 15 or 20 minutes to set my own hotkeys. Rather than the hours I've wasted chasing erroneous dialogue boxes and web pages."

[Monika Gause]

About 90% of users disagree. You will just need to read the forums.

And yes of course you can set your own. Just go to Edit > Keyboard shortcuts.

[ryan_edwards · Accepted solution]

I would save 2 keyboard hotkey profiles one that 'DISABLED'... empty of what you don't need

and one that has the defaults... that way you can quickly toggle them for working modes/if anyone else has to use your machine.

I would recommend just keeping hotkeys on though, computers only do what you ask them to and if you are somehow hitting the wrong keys... that's more of a human error, get something that records keystrokes that way you can run it back and see 'what did I hit wrong' and improve from there.

and if some random website comes up or some dialogue... easy fix is just click the illustrator app in the taskbar which will refocus it and you can get right back to work.

Personally for me I would think using hot keys would save way more time (even if a couple help pages or something comes up) then having to drive around ALL the menus/sub menus.. that's a lot of travel time/eye strain looking stuff up over and over again. I've never encountered the issue you are having... is it possible your keyboard is old/damaged... example 'I hit the 'A' key but surrounding keys 'W' & 'D' trigger because I have a potato chip stuck in there haha

Common things you do I would make actions for... that will hit certain keys 100% correctly every time you replay the action while working... takes the chaos out of it (no fingers involved)