{"id":1458,"date":"2021-04-09T13:46:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T20:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2021-04-09T13:46:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T20:46:18","slug":"multi-key-keyboard-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/multi-key-keyboard-shortcuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Key Keyboard Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of learning keyboard shortcuts. It&#8217;s nice to save time and avoid reaching for the mouse. Apple provides some basic <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/mac-help\/create-keyboard-shortcuts-for-apps-mchlp2271\/mac\">macOS system preferences to customize keyboard shortcuts<\/a> across apps, but Nisus Writer&#8217;s enhancements go much further.<\/p>\n<p>Nisus Writer of course lets you <a href=\"https:\/\/nisus.com\/pro\/help\/Menu-Keys-for-Menu-Commands.html\">customize the keyboard shortcut for any menu command<\/a>. But an even bigger help are our multi-key shortcuts. You can choose whatever mnemonic is clearest to you. For example <span style=\"font-family:courier; background-color:#EEE;\">Command&nbsp;+&nbsp;H1<\/span> can apply the &#8220;Heading 1&#8221; paragraph style. To activate this shortcut:<\/p>\n<p>1. Press and hold down the Command key.<br \/>\n2. Type the H key (press down and release up).<br \/>\n3. Type the 1 key (press down and release up).<br \/>\n4. Release the Command key (so it is now up).<\/p>\n<p>Nisus Writer collects together all the pressed keys while the Command key is down and then matches the full shortcut at the very end, once the Command key is released.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from activating any single regular menu command, you can also assign keyboard shortcuts to intermediate submenus. For example you might assign <span style=\"font-family:courier; background-color:#EEE;\">Command&nbsp;+&nbsp;OR<\/span> to show the &#8220;Open Recent&#8221; menu. Once the menu is expanded on screen you can use the up\/down arrows (or autocomplete typing) to select the desired submenu and open the corresponding file.<\/p>\n<p>All these little tricks may take some small time to learn and set up, but once you do we hope you&#8217;ll see how much of a pleasure writing can be with Nisus Writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of learning keyboard shortcuts. It&#8217;s nice to save time and avoid reaching for the mouse. Apple provides some basic macOS system preferences to customize keyboard shortcuts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-express","category-pro","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}