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February 8, 2012
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Duplicating your last action in Indesign?

  • February 8, 2012
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In Office you use the F4 key to duplicate your last action, is there a way to do it in Indesign?

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    James Gifford—NitroPress
    Legend
    December 17, 2022

    Just a side observation that I find Word's "do again" function maddeningly fussy. It seems as if it used to repeat the last... "major" action, and now it meticulously repeats the last trivial thing you did instead. I've all but stopped using it.

     

    And just an editorial-historical observation, F4 is the assignment from the long, long ago CAA key mapping that MS tried to apply to all of its apps and suggest as a standard for everyone else. None of the mapping ever made a lick of sense to me and I never adopted it and its features have been slowly eroding from Office apps, but I (fairly recently) worked with someone who got furious when (for example ) Shift-F12 no longer "worked right" and was angry/resistant to using (again for example) Ctrl-P to do the function using the more modern and nearly universal standard key map.

     

    Point being, "Do again" was always Ctrl-Y to me. But it still got less and less useful.

     

    Participant
    December 20, 2021

    J'aimerai aussi utliser la touche F4 pour reproduire la commande précedante... ADOBE vous pourriez faire cette fonction???

    Je vous remercie !

    claire f

    jmlevy
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 20, 2021

    Ici, c'est un forum d'utilisateurs. Il faut faire ce type de demande ici : https://indesign.uservoice.com/

     

    Mais quelle est la commande que tu veux reproduire ?

    Steve Werner
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 8, 2012

    There is no such key in InDesign. However, by defining keyboard shortcuts, by creating styles (paragraph, character, object, etc.), by using functions like Transform Again, most actions can be repeated quickly.

    Participant
    February 8, 2012

    Thanks for answering so quickly, Steve. I am proofing a large document and need to change a number of words that are in sentence case to upper case. I can right click the word and use the change case option, but it takes too much time for the amount of words I need to change. Can you tell me a quicker way?

    BobLevine
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 8, 2012

    Create a KBSC for the change case options. Of course if it’s same word all through the document you can use find/change.

    Bob