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May 20, 2020
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square bracket keys on AZERTY / touche crochet avec clavier AZERTY

  • May 20, 2020
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English:

Some shortcuts use the opening and closing square bracket keys [ and ], particularly those relating to the size of the tool.

My question is twofold:

  • on my AZERTY keyboard, I don't actually have [ ] keys. You have to type ( or ) parenthesis keys, combined with the Alt Gr key. But in Illustrator it doesn't work; I tried with all sorts of combinations of Alt, Shift, Alt Gr.... The size of the tool remains the same. In the default configuration, how is this supposed to work?
  • how can I define custom keys for "tool size up" and "tool size down" ?

 

French:

Certains racourcis utilisent les touches crochets ouvrants et fermants [ ] , particulièrement ceux relatifs à la taille de l'outil.

Ma question est double:

  • sur mon clavier AZERTY, je n'ai pas à proprement parler de touches [ ]. Il faut faire les touches ( et ) avec la touche Alt Gr. Mais dans Illustrator ça ne marche pas. Avec les touches par défaut, c'est censé marcher comment?
  • comment puis-je redéfinir des touches custom pour la fonctionalité essentielle "taille de l'outil"

3 respuestas

Participant
February 11, 2025

Hi ! It's Alt + Maj + ( or ) on an azerty keyboard > [ ]

Egor Chistyakov
Inspiring
January 5, 2022

Hm, these can be changed in Keyboard Shortcuts, in Tools sections, in Increase/Decrease Diameter... Can you assign something else there?

Eric Dumas
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 20, 2020

Hi,

Can you confirm the version of your software and operating system?

You can create your own shortcuts from the Edit menu > Edit Keyboard shortcuts

- Select to create a shortcut for a Tool or a Command

- Locate the tool size option

- and remap to what you would like to use

You should get a warning if the shortcut is already used for something else already.

Known Participant
May 23, 2020

Hi Erc,

Thanks for answering.

  • My OS is Windows 10, it  updates regularly.
  • I am using Illustrator 24.0.2

I could not find tool size in the keyboard shortcuts.

 

Legend
May 24, 2020

As explained before, the short answer is not. it's not available in Keyboard Shortcuts panel.

Several shorcuts are not available, or not remapped, on localized (non US-English) versions of the program.

 

Keyboard shortcuts are stored in this file:

.\Adobe Illustrator 2020\Presets\en_US\Keyboard Shortcuts >  illustrator Defaults.kys

This is a text file that can be edited. Though I have not found instruction for the keyboard keys numbering.

 

I think the lines for what you are after (on US English version and for US keyboards)  are:

/sizeStepDown {
/Context 0
/Modifiers 224
/Represent 44
/Key 44
}
/sizeStepUp {
/Context 0
/Modifiers 224
/Represent 46
/Key 46