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igordugonjic
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December 21, 2017
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Ctrl + End not working

  • December 21, 2017
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Hello everyone,

despite the fact that I am Photoshop user since 1993. I recently moved to Illustrator (from Corel Draw).

Working on some text layouts and discovered that ctrl + end (when I click with the text tool in AI paragraphs of text) which should move cursor to the end of the text not working which surprised me because it is common shortcut for decades. Also this causing that ctrl + shift + end, which should select text from the point where cursor is to the end of the text, not working too.

Am I doing something wrong or its the way it is in illustrator?

Thank you!

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    Correct answer CHMprepress

    Did you try to look into this page: Default keyboard shortcuts for Illustrator

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    Inspiring
    January 3, 2018

    Yeah shortcuts are always a (personal) gripe -- it still pains me that different adobe apps have different results for shortcuts (some even get palette-context sensitive etc)

    Just one of the things we have to be 'okay' with... so many apps out there... so many companies.. so much 'progress' as far as pushing tools forward for the entertainment industry, etc.

    Keep a 'cheat sheet' of common stuff you use most, or attempt to change what keyboard shortcuts you can for you personal profile (though if you ever work anywhere else w/o the new shortcuts it can be painful)  No need to memorize constantly just ensure you have a place you know you can go quickly to get the info you need for a workflow.

    Just get used to being extremely fluid in flipping between key command protocols across all these art making apps! haha

    Easiest way to deal with it is 'its their world and you just live in it' .... I still constantly hit 'esc' key in Adobe After Effects when making a text layer typed out... which works the same in Adobe Illustrator (but not photoshop?!) ... just software made by different minds throughout time...even though its all under the same umbrella of 'Adobe'.. same kind of deal if you work on a PC a lot and then jump on a Apple Mac computer... have to relearn the keyboard in some sense... keep flipping between thinking styles/shortcuts.

    Mike_Gondek10189183
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    Mike_Gondek10189183Community Expert
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    January 9, 2018

    I  share your disappointment in having to remember different key combinations for different software apps. There are many inconsistencies but a few that have been driving me mad for over a decade are

    • Shift Command A - to deselect
    • Command tilde key - to toggle between open files

    I really think the Photohsop, Illustraror, Acrobat, After Effects & Premiere need to meet on this and the other inconsistencies.

      Mike_Gondek10189183
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      Mike_Gondek10189183Community Expert
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      December 21, 2017

      Shift CTRL Downarrow
      will do what you ask as a slection, but only to the end of paragraph, but not to the end of multiple paragraphs.

      Shift Ctrl I will show invisibles (hard returns use a paragraph symbol marker), and you will go this far up to the paragraph marker.

      I added some paragraph spacing in the example above to separate the 2 paragraphs.

      Use shift enter for soft returns and you will go this far.

      CTRL Downarrow

      Will move your cursor to end of paragraph

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        Inspiring
        December 21, 2017

        that is kinda neat MikeG, but for my money I still think just hitting 3 keys does it faster.  Select all-- gets the entire range of how many paragraphs you want and end to drop the cursor to end of the textFrameItem (aka paragraph... how the illustrator 'sees' it from a document level attribute)

        All OP seems to want is how to quickly jump to the end of his (variably long) text as a whole.

        Here's the break down...

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          Inspiring
          December 21, 2017

          Illustrator is a little different in some behaviors.. my method (and maybe its dumb--but it works!)

          Is select all and THEN hit just the 'End' key...this takes you to the end of the selection (which at that point is the entire text string or a paragraph of many lines)

          Let me know if this helps you any.

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            CHMprepressCorrect answer
            Inspiring
            December 21, 2017

            Did you try to look into this page: Default keyboard shortcuts for Illustrator

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            igordugonjicAuthor
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            December 21, 2017

            Still command work as expected in Photoshop ...

            Thanks guys, believe that Adobe should check pagw with "common shortcuts people use before Adobe existed" before they decide to change everyone habits.

            jane-e
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            jane-eCommunity Expert
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            December 22, 2017

            igordugonjic  wrote

            Thanks guys, believe that Adobe should check pagw with "common shortcuts people use before Adobe existed" before they decide to change everyone habits.

            And yet...

            when I started using Photoshop way back when, DOS WordPerfect ruled and Ctrl + End was the shortcut for "Delete from the cursor to the end of the line".

            So that would be the shortcut for Ctrl + End that everyone knew before Adobe existed!

            It was Microsoft who changed the shortcut to go to the end of the document, and later versions of WordPerfect followed suit.

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