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"

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square bracket keys on AZERTY / touche crochet avec clavier AZERTY

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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"

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KarinVanParis

Participant

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

Egor Chistyakov

Inspiring

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

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.

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federico platon

Legend

Regretfully the Keyboard Shortcuts range of options available in Illustrator is quite limited.

Even more, using a non-US keyboard default ones availabilty is compromised.

Sizing up/down with [ ] keys only works for:

Eraser,

Blob and

-Calligraphic/Bristle- Brushes.

These shortcuts are not even available in the Keyboard Shortcuts panel. And therefore are nor remappable, changed to other combination of keys.

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francisv12957225Author

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For me [ and ] do not work at all. And as Federico pointed out, you can't set custom keys for this.

Can someone tell me how I can change the tool size in Illustrator if I have an AZERTY keyboard, without completely breaking my workflow by clicking in the tool window, and resizing manually.

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