Assigning an action to a HotKey

[Susan Flamingo]

Can I assign an action (coloring the selected character a certain color) to a HotKey (like ctrl+1)

Total newbie here plz make it easy...

Thank you

Susan

[Geоrge]

>> coloring the selected character a certain color

You can set character style with only applying a color and then you can set in character style options a shortcut for applying this style.

https://www.adobepress.com/articles/article.asp?p=1873031#:~:text=Click%20in%20the%20Shortcut%20box,....

[Jens Trost]

George was quicker 😉

Here's a screenshot of the setting he mentioned. This works also with paragraph and object styles.
 


 

[Geоrge]

There is no actions like in PhotoShop in InDesign. You can vote about here -

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/31049275-ac...

[Laubender]

Hi Susan,

as already said, you can do this with a character style who's only definition is the fill color of a character.

Plus a keyboard shortcut you bind with the style.

If you have to do that very often and you can make out a pattern where you have to do that, always on a certain word perhaps, you should look either into InDesign's Find/Change panel and work with perhaps the GREP tab or look into features like GREP Styles or Nested Styles that can be part of paragraph formatting or a paragraph style.

Other option:

Use the Eyedropper Tool to pick up formatting and apply the picked up formatting to selected text.

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/how-to/indesign-eyedropper-tool-copy-formatting.html

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )